Tag: Books
Adapting and transforming our coastal environments
Rosalea Monacella reviews a recent book which offers expert insights on responding to climate change.
Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes
A recent book on the design of Manhattan’s elevated railway park offers a insight into the project’s plantings and celebrates the sensuous and dynamic qualities of living systems.
Choreographing the city: Ron Jones
On the eve of the launch of Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985–, a new book documenting the transformation of central Melbourne since the 1980s, Landscape Australia speaks to co-editor Ronald Jones about some of the key ideas that lie behind the book and how to design a good city.
Call of the Reed Warbler: A manifesto for regeneration
Agricultural scientist and farmer Charles Massy has published a book that calls for a deeper understanding of human effects upon the landscape and for practice that is by its nature regenerative.
The New Australian Garden: Landscapes for living
Howard Tanner reviews Michael Bates’ book The New Australian Garden: Landscapes for living.
Michael Bates: The education of a gardener
Michael Bates, arguably the most enterprising landscape contractor in the Sydney region, reflects on his education as a gardener in this excerpt from his recent book, The New Australian Garden.
The Cultivated Wild: Gardens and landscapes by Raymond Jungles
The Cultivated Wild, published by The Monacelli Press, showcases Jungles’ recent projects, revealing remarkable approaches to design thinking with plants.
Chaos and confusion: The clash between adult and children’s spaces
In her new book How to Grow a Playspace, Katherine Masiulanis asks “Is it counterproductive to design children’s spaces, given that over-prescribed landscapes may stifle creative potential?”
Hypersexual City: The provocation of soft-core urbanism
Nicole Kalms introduces her new book, Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism.
Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising design and making
Catherin Bull reviews Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann’s recent book, Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Re-conceptualising Design and Making.
Unspoken Spaces: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Charles Anderson reviews Unspoken Spaces: Studio Olafur Eliasson, a richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary range of works realized by artist Olafur Eliasson and his studio since the late 1990s.
City Dreamers: The urban imagination in Australia
Urban historian Graeme Davison introduces his recent book City Dreamers: the urban imagination in Australia.
New book to connect urban planners and Indigenous communities
A new book titled Planning for Coexistence? aims to connect urban planners and Indigenous communities and help the two work together effectively.
Wendy Whiteley and the secret garden
Dianne Firth reviews Wendy Whiteley and the secret garden, a book about the guerrilla garden that Wendy Whitely created on New South Wales State Railways land.
Oudolf Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman’s Life
A review of Oudolf Hummelo: A Journey Through a Plantsman’s Life.
Take Me to the River: the story of Perth’s foreshore
Catherin Bull reviews Julian Bolleter’s latest book, Take Me to the River: the Story of Perth’s Foreshore.
The Oldest Foods on Earth
A review of John Newton’s latest book, The oldest foods on earth: a history of Australian native foods, with recipes.
Lisa Diedrich: European landscape architecture
Professor Lisa Diedrich speaks with Ricky Ricardo in Melbourne.
Piet Oudolf: Landscapes In Landscapes
A showcase of 30 years of work by landscape’s pioneer of “new wave naturalism,” Piet Oudolf.
Artifice: Dermot Foley Landscape Architects
The first ten years of Irish landscape practice, Dermot Foley Landscape Architects .
