Landscape Architecture Australia

Landscape Architecture Australia is an authoritative and contemporary record of landscape architecture, urban design and land-use planning in Australia, providing independent reviews of public, commercial and residential projects, plus independent, commissioned comment on the issues facing landscape architecture and its practitioners today. It Is the national magazine of the Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).

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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. Here, COLA director Kaylie Salvatori offers a beginner’s guide to Country-driven long-term thinking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Wonder of time • Working alongside Adnyamathanha knowledge holders and NASA-funded scientists, landscape 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.

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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.

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