Main entry:

Mossop, Elizabeth.

Title & Author:

Contemporary Australian landscape design / Elizabeth Mossop.

Publication:

West Ryde, N.S.W. : BT Latitude, ©2006.

Description:

vii, 231 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Transforming the bush: the development of Australian landscape design. Introduction; Local conditions: landscape and culture; Cultural identity, conservation and the Sydney School; Modern landscape design in Australia; The profession, post-modernism and contemporary themes -- Urban spaces. East Circular Quay; Customs Square; Chifley Square; Martin Place; Spanish Quarter; Haymarket; Railway Square; Sydney Sculpture Walk; King Street Wharf Public Domain; Melbourne streets; Melbourne City Square; Federation Square; Melbourne Waterfront; University Square; Steampacket Place and Beach Road development -- Parks. Cook and Phillip Park; Centennial parklands: Federation Drive; Centennial parklands: Federation Pavilion; Elizabeth Healey Rest Area; Bradleys Head Amphitheatre; Bicentennial Park Water Axis; Western Sydney Regional Park; Birrarung Marr; Dyeworks Park; The Grand Arbour: South Bank parklands.
Institutions. Museum of Sydney forecourt; Main Walkway, University of New South Wales; Garden of Australian Dreams National Museum of Australia; Commonwealth Place; Fern Garden; International Sculpture Park, ANU; Forest Gallery; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Urban Spaces; Box Hill Community Arts Centre; Geelong Town Hall; Riawunna Aboriginal Studies Centre; Uluru: Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre -- Infrastructure. Moore Park Bus Interchange; Victoria Park; Gore Hill Freeway; Glebe Island Arterial; Restoring the waters Clear Paddock Creek; Mount Penang Festival site; Melbourne Gateway; Eastern Freeway extension, Melbourne; Tree Top Walk -- Sydney 2000 Olympics. Millenium parklands; Olympic Plaza; Fig Grove; Northern Water Feature; Archery Pavilion; Olympic Public Art Program.

Summary:

'Contemporary Australian Landscape Design' explores the current trajectories of landscape design in Australia. It articulates the development of modern landscape design in Australia after the Second World War and the major themes of its ongoing evolution since. This book brings together, for the first time, a striking selection of public landscape design projects from around Australia. More than fifty projects, completed since 1988, are described and illustrated with superb images from some of Australia's leading architectural photographers. The collected works allow an examination of the new directions apparent in landscape architecture in the twenty-first century." -- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

0958046514 (corrected)
9780958046510 (corrected)
9780958046514

Subject:

Landscape design Australia.
Landscape architecture Australia History.
Public spaces Australia.
Community arts projects Australia.
Aménagement paysager Australie.
Architecture du paysage Australie Histoire.
Espaces publics Australie.
Projets d'art communautaires Australie.
Community arts projects.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape design.
Public spaces.
Australia.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250709
Call No.: BIB 180207
Status: Available