Landscape Architecture Australia, August 2022

Landscape Architecture Australia, August 2022

Landscape Architecture Australia

Matters of Time

Agenda

Dawn breaks on the gradients of claypans at Mandoorn looking to the Kartamoarnda. This area is one of the most biodiverse landscapes in the world.
Practice | Daniel Jan Martin | 16 Sep 2022

Ancient landscapes, remnant landscapes

One of the most biodiverse landscapes in the world extends through Perth’s eastern suburbs. As development encroaches, a strategy for design together with conservation is vital.

Today, South Bank features lush gardens, turquoise lagoons and the striking bougainvillea-clad Grand Arbour.
Practice | Catherin Bull | 17 Aug 2022

An unfolding landscape: South Bank

Since the World Expo in 1988, Brisbane’s South Bank has evolved into a successful urban precinct, providing lessons about the risks and opportunities of landscape development over time.

2022 APACE Open Day. Initially a sustainable living demonstration site, APACE now promotes ecological regeneration through a community-focused approach.
Review | Alice Ford | 30 Sep 2022

Centring ecological regeneration: APACE

At the heart of North Fremantle community, not-for-profit organization APACE is foregrounding an approach to the environment that fosters ecological and community resilience, embraces change and gives natural systems room to move.

Sitting between the Stuart Highway and the Spencer Gulf just outside of Port Augusta, the AALBG includes red cliffs, shrublands, dunes, plains and beaches.
Review | Scott Hawken | 24 Nov 2022

Outback ecologies: Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden

This under-appreciated garden on the edge of the South Australian desert is a remarkable story of community-driven landscape architecture that foregrounds the extraordinary plant life of arid and semi-arid ecosystems.

An experimental site-specific dance performance as part of MAP Fest 2019 mapped the heritage house at Siteworks.
Practice | Jess Stewart | 23 Oct 2022

Making time in practice

Time is a crucial dimension of both landscapes and design, yet our projects are often restricted by limited timelines, static modes of representation and fixed outcomes. How can a richer engagement with time transform our modes of practice?

On Goreng Noongar Country. stories have been embedded into the landscape as part of the restoration project, including representations of the six seasonal circles.
Practice | Rosie Halsmith | 16 Sep 2022

Remaking lost connections

In Australia’s south-west, an ambitious landscape restoration project seeks to undo some of the damage of 200 years of land clearing, strengthening social and ecological networks and linking isolated islands of biodiversity.

Evidence of the earliest animal life in the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods is now exposed and accessible at Castle Rock’s Maynards Well, which was once a sub-marine canyon.
Practice | Joe Bean and Greg Grabasch | 17 Aug 2022

Wonder of time

Working alongside Adnyamathanha knowledge holders and NASA-funded scientists, design practice Brave and Curious has delivered a network of projects across the Flinders Ranges that will help preserve and present internationally significant fossils dating back half a billion years.

Viewed here from Ballast Point, Balls Head Reserve gives the misleading impression of a landscape untouched by European settlement.
Practice | David Whitworth | 13 Oct 2022

Between action and forgetting: Balls Head Reserve

Across from the never-realized modernist utopia of Blues Point, the seemingly untouched bushland of Balls Head Reserve belies a story that is less about preservation than it is about concerted, collective creation.

Healing Country with culture, connecting to our Ancestors and descendants by Kaylie Salvatori.
Practice | Kaylie Salvatori | 5 Aug 2022

Look to the Skies, think like an Ancestor

By contrast with Western linear concepts of time, many Indigenous knowledge systems understand space and time as interconnected and cyclical, marked by cues from the land, the seas and the skies.

As part of the Designing with Country: Resilience Studio, student Virginia Overell proposed a muyan (silver wattle) festival as a “cue-to-care” for Country.
Practice | Alex Felson | 6 Nov 2022

Re-envisioning climate futures

Present actions around climate change tend to focus on preserving what currently exists. Alexander Felson makes the case for a more holistic approach that positions near-term actions within long term thinking.

Interview

Pilot projects for Girona’s Shores were conceived of as “sketches,” with vegetation removed and adjusted to create different kinds of spaces for human occupation and ecological biodiversity.
Practice | Liam Mouritz and Alex Breedon | 2 Sep 2022

Lo-fi landscapes: Estudi Martí Franch

The work of Catalonia-based interdisciplinary design practice Estudi Martí Franch proposes “response-able” landscapes that can change and adapt to different temporalities and scales.

A wild mix of plants flourishes along a stretch of the former Berlin Wall that has since been paved over for a housing project.
Practice | Julian Raxworthy | 4 Aug 2022

Notes from the margins: Matthew Gandy

Pathbreaking urbanist and geographer Matthew Gandy explores unusual spaces at the margins of cities, where ecological, topographical and historical perspectives collide.

Perspective

The cover of the August 2022 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia features Brave and Curious staff investigating possible walking trail alignments with pastoralists and National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia staff at Castle Rock, Maynards Well in the Flinders Ranges.
News | Emily Wong | 22 Jul 2022

August issue of LAA – “Matters of Time” – out now

The August 2022 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia guest edited by Daniel Jan Martin and Liam Mouritz reflects on the relationship between time, landscape and design.

Projects

A path takes visitors to the top of a mound above the old tip, opening up views of the gardens and surrounding trees.
Review | Adrian Marshall | 30 Sep 2022

Slow growth: Australian Botanic Gardens Shepparton

On a landfill site in regional Victoria, a botanic gardens masterplan has unfurled over decades, its many layers shaped and maintained by a committed community of volunteers and advocates.

More articles

The cover of the August 2022 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia features Brave and Curious staff investigating possible walking trail alignments with pastoralists and National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia staff at Castle Rock, Maynards Well in the Flinders Ranges.
Archive | Katharina Nieberler-Walker | 22 Jul 2022

Viewpoint: Why does research matter?

A message from AILA National Director Katharina Nieberler-Walker

Hues of herblands and sedgelands form subtle, biodiverse ecotones.
Archive | Daniel Jan Martin and Liam Mouritz | 22 Jul 2022

An issue on time

“Matters of Time” guest editors Daniel Jan Martin and Liam Mouritz reflect on the relationship between time, landscape and design.