Culture

In the jungles of Meghalaya, India, the Khasi people have grown living root bridges over rivers for centuries. Photo: © Amos Chapple

Ancient infrastructure, resilient future: Julia Watson’s ‘Lo-TEK’ vision for sustainable cities

By Foreground — February 20, 2020

Paul Thompson, plantsman, gardener and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.

Nurturing the land: Paul Thompson

By Jo Russell-Clarke — January 24, 2020

Dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi moves in the landscape – part of a video installation produced with Claire Winsor funded by the TCL Kevin Taylor Legacy. Image: videographer Peter Drew

Cultural movement: what can dance tell us about place?

By Foreground — November 28, 2019

National Indigenous Fire Workshop. Cape York 2014 at Steve Irwin Wildfire Reserve, hosted by Taepithiggi people, Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers.

Cultural burning can be a vital fire management tool

By The Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation — November 13, 2019

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architect's International Festival of Landscape Architecture – the square and the park – was held over two days in October to a capacity audience. Photo: David Hyde

The square and the park: a festival review

By Michael Smith — October 31, 2019

Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake within the 1.6 million hectare World Heritage listed Tasmanian Wilderness. Photo: RN Brauns

The things we keep: Why Australia must protect its national heritage

By David Yencken — September 12, 2019

Under threat from climate change, the Bubbler is a natural spring and important cultural site for the Arabana people of the Kathi Thanda region. Photo: Melissa Nursey-Bray

Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change

By Melissa Nursey-Bray — August 30, 2019

The authors of the Burra Charter at Burra, South Australia in 1979: Jane Lennon, Peter Forrest, Jim Kerr, Josephine Flood, John Mulvaney and Peter Watts. Photo supplied by author with permission.

Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision

By Dr James Lesh — July 11, 2019

Kabulwarnamyo outstation is a remote settlement of about 50 people on Nawarddeken Country in West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Photo: Hannah Robertson

Caring for Country: how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services

By Hannah Robertson — June 21, 2019

The detailed ground patterning of Park Louvre Lens Arts France by Paris-based design firm Mosbach Paysagistes.

Catherine Mosbach’s “submersive” experiments in landscape architecture

By Catherine Mosbach, Foreground — May 30, 2019

Geoffrey Dutton’s “marginal garden” in Scotland, is one of six case-study gardens in Overgrown. Image: Julian Raxworthy

Overgrown: a call for landscape architecture to return to the garden

By Julian Raxworthy — May 30, 2019

Trees play a key role in the religious and cultural observances of peoples around the world. The tree is central to Easter as well as Christmas. Photo: Joshua Earle

Into the woods: an Easter meditation on trees

By Robert DiNapoli — April 15, 2019