In the century that separated such diverse attitudes, much was said and written about the use of native Australian plants in the garden. This article examines the kinds of meanings attached to native plants, and considers what they can tell us about attitudes toboth the Australian landscape and...
In 2023, we focus on enhancing experiences and learning opportunities for the landscape design community and delve into the creativity of the planting specialist and landscape designers. Many of the ideas presented at the ALC influence future designs and literature which contribute to shaping our ...
The convergence of natural philosophy, landscape design and photography in the design and representation of the Hermitage, the home and garden of the celebrated Melbourne photographer John William Lindt (1845–1926) (figure 1), reflects the impact of Humboldtian thinking on the Australian arts in ...
Such long-term drying out of the landscape has also been occurring in the populous southeast over the past two to three decades. Fig. 4: Australian rainfall deciles - 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2019. The dry conditions that contributed to the size and intensity of the fires came on ...
well-sustained poems that were responsive to the landscape in the manner ofWilliam Wordsworth. In other poems he imitated the idealism ofPercy Bysshe Shelley. Harpur also had made a careful study ofEmersonianideas. But his poetry and prose were not easily available beyond their occasional appearanc...
as both works and sitters were based in that city. Hilda Rix Nicholas suggests that the Australian landscape could itself inform cosmopolitan concepts of elegance – and she sites fashionable style at both polarities of the difference around the Australian rural property – the homestead gardenIn th...
however when working at the macroecological scale and assessing interspecific differences, coarser trait resolution is suitable141. As we were assessing tolerance at the landscape level, we chose to select traits at a coarse scale as it was the most useful resolution for this study, but we ackn...
The goldfields of Western Australia posed great challenges for diggers. The harshdesertlandscape heightened the risk of disease,dehydration, andheatstroke, and many miners died. Nevertheless, the western gold discoveries brought a flood of migrants from the eastern colonies who eagerly crossed the cont...
“who were influential in promoting new and experimental writing, and in facilitating the revitalised Australian literary landscape of the late 1960s and 1970s”. AustLit doesn’t identify who was in that influential group, but I think Kerry Goldsworthy does in her introduction to Penguin’s ...
Landscape Architects ASPECT Studios Project Year 2014 Photographs Courtesy of Competition Team Competition Downtown Q 2025 Ideas Competition Award First Place Project Name Rivertown: Queanbeyan 2025 Location Queanbeyan NSW, Australia Project Year