Tag: Interviews
Laying the groundwork for soil
Simon Leake, Australia’s pre-eminent soil expert, calls for landscape management practices that let soil function and evolve.
Urban civic projects: Carmen Fiol-Costa
Barcelona-based architect and urban designer Carmen Fiol-Costa, the first Droga Architect in Residence, looks back on her time in Australia.
Marijn Schenk: Catalyzing connections
Marijn Schenk, co-founder of Dutch practice Next Architects, spoke with Landscape Australia about collaboration, new perspectives and the pursuit of social and ecological agendas.
Kelly Shannon: Fluid states
Kelly Shannon’s work is concerned with the evolving relationship between landscape, infrastructure and urbanization. Prior to her visit to Brisbane in March to speak at the Asia Pacific Architecture Forum, Shannon spoke with Janina Gosseye about cross-cultural practice, climate change and the recovery of the public realm.
Dan Young and Paul Owen: Rethinking the suburban landscape
Dan Young began his landscape architecture practice with the help of friend and collaborator Paul Owen (Owen Architecture), working on a number of residential projects in Brisbane. Landscape Australia caught up with the duo to talk collaboration, private practice and planting design.
On the edge: Steven Tupu on activism and risk-taking
Hailing from New Zealand, Steven Tupu trained as a landscape architect in Australia before emigrating to New York to found Terrain, a practice that has participated in that city’s enormous transformation over the past two decades.
Marc Treib: Attending place
Noted historian and critic of landscape architecture, Marc Treib, speaks with Fiona Johnson about his new book Austere Gardens, Isamu Noguchi and landscape design.
Thomas Woltz: Working with rich terrain
Thomas Woltz spoke with Landscape Australia editor Ricky Ray Ricardo about restoration ecology, planting design and responding to social issues by design.
Michael Wright and Cassandra Chilton on MONA’s vision for Macquarie Point
LandscapeAustralia speaks with Rush Wright Associates about MONA’s vision for Australia’s first major public acknowledgment of the Black War at Macquarie Point.
Charles Landry: Applying emotional intelligence
Charles Landry chats with Claire Martin about the lack of emotional and aesthetic intelligence that is applied to city-making.
Juhani Pallasmaa: Experiencing slowness
A conversation with Finnish architect and philosopher Juhani Pallasmaa.
Australian landscape architects in the USA
Alex Georgouras catches up with three Australian expatriate landscape architects emerging within the North American tableau – Richard Weller, Matt Grunbaum and Victoria Marshall.
Katherine Clarke: Making space for doubt
Katherine Clarke, founding partner of Muf Architecture/Art, on public space and the ‘lived experience of democracy’.
Kate Orff: Translating Research into Action
Claire Martin speaks with Kate Orff, founder and design director of New York-based landscape architecture practice Scape.
Michael Chapman: Building Alkimos Beach
Interview from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia about Alkimos Beach, WA.
Adrian McGregor: Strategies for Parramatta Road
A conversation from the 2013 Urban Issue of Landscape Architecture Australia.
Perry Lethlean: Stories of place
Perry Lethlean of Taylor Cullity Lethlean talks to Catherin Bull about narrative, place and the New Civic in contemporary public gardens.
Kate Cullity: Maker’s mark
Interview with Kate Cullity – landscape architect, environmental artist, head of TCL’s Adelaide office.
Lisa Diedrich: European landscape architecture
Professor Lisa Diedrich speaks with Ricky Ricardo in Melbourne.
Anton James: Disrupting cohesion
Anton James of JMD Design is an accomplished and highly regarded landscape architect and artist with more than twenty years experience in the profession.
