Culture

A "ghost city" – artist's impression of Ion Idriess' never realised proposal to flood and urbanise Australia's Lake Eyre.

The spectre of failure haunts Australia’s city-makers. Why do they keep getting it so wrong?

by Craig Allchin—January 17, 2019

Gender equality in landscape architecture is improving, but very slowly.

Landscape architecture’s gender gap revealed in new report

by Foreground—December 21, 2018

The Piano Mill, a musical instrument meets building.

The Piano Mill: In remote rural Australia, a living culture builds on the musical bones of the past

by Jo Russell-Clarke—December 7, 2018

Housing in suburbia, Brisbane. Image: Tatiana Gerus

Suburbanism: for most of us, the ’burbs are home; it’s time to celebrate them

by Leon van Schaik, Nigel Bertram—November 29, 2018

The tropics – fertile paradise or a place of brutality and decay? Image: Colin Czerwinski

Troppo troppo

by Suzanne Falkiner—November 2, 2018

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Currumbin to Kingscliff Industry Tour in vintage Kombis

Looking back at the AILA Festival 2018

by WE-EF Lighting—November 1, 2018

The night view of the Sydney Opera House that 94 percent of Australians want to see. Image: Diliff

The Sydney opera that nobody wants

by Foreground—October 9, 2018

To engage with informal settlements landscape architects need to break down boundaries and embrace the temporary.

Bravely embracing landscape architecture without borders

by SueAnne Ware—October 4, 2018

Willunga Main Street Project by Wax Design. Image: Dan Schultz

Stories of place: street design’s evocative potential

by Leanne Amodeo—July 31, 2018

Sydney skyline - Australian cities need landscape architecture graduates, but they are in short supply in local labour markets.

Is Australia facing a looming shortfall of landscape architects?

by Foreground—July 30, 2018

Gordon Ford. Image: SLV pictures collection ( photographer unknown)

Atlas of memory: Gordon Ford’s natural Australian garden

by Briony Downes—July 26, 2018

Paris has managed to clean up its waterways, how did they do it? Image: Lea Marzloff

Foreground reads: our picks from around the web in July

by Foreground—July 11, 2018