Julian Raxworthy

Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture History and Theory, Landscape Architectural Design, Gardening

JULIAN RAXWORTHY

Landscape Architect & Academic

Qualifications:

AssDip.App.Sci(Landscape) Ryde B.Land.Arch(Honours) RMIT M.Research(Land.Arch) RMIT Doctor of Philosophy UQ Registered Landscape Architect Grad.Dip.Urb&Reg.Plan UNE (Current)

Image of Julian Raxworthy at the MIT Press bookstore holding open his book Overgrown and smiling

Dr Julian Raxworthy is Associate Professor and Discipline Lead: Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Canberra. A registered landscape architect in Australia, he undertakes projects as FREE-RANGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, his own practice since 2008. He has been on faculty at RMIT (Melbourne), QUT (Brisbane) and the University of Cape Town, and has been visiting professor at l’École nationale supérieure de paysage Versailles and the University of Virginia. In 2004, he co-edited The MESH Book: Landscape & Infrastructure, published by RMIT Press, and in 2011 Sun publishers in Amsterdam published Sunburnt: Landscape Architecture in Australia, which he co-authored. His most recent book is Overgrown: practices between landscape architecture and gardening, which was published in 2018 by The MIT Press, and was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The provisional title of his next book is Latent City: the landscape architecture of land tenure, which will be the focis of his One Month Research Award at Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies in 2024.

Photograph of Julian Raxworthy (Magriet Raxworthy,2018)

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2016

Essay:

Building a Wilderness with Louis Le Roy

Keywords:

Landscape Architecture Ecocathedral ecokathedraal Ecology Practice Netherlands

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2021

Essay:

The Unpredictability of Living: Plant material, Plant Agency and the Viridic

Keywords:

Overgrown Landscape Architecture Viridic Plants Representation Landscape Theory

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2022

Interview:

Notes from the margins: Matthew Gandy (Long Edit)

Keywords:

Mathew Gandy Landscape Theory Landscape Architecture Landscape Ecology Geography Weeds

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2020

Essay:

Land AS: Conflicting Definitions of Land – and Disciplinary Relations to It – in Landscape Architecture.

Keywords:

Latent City Land Tenure Landscape Theory Landscape Architecture Urban Morphology Cadastral Boundary

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2018

Essay:

The Landscape of Practices: decolonizing landscape architecture

Keywords:

Decolonisation Practices Landscape Architecture Landscape Theory Vernacular

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2014

Project Review:

Prince Alfred Park

Keywords:

Site Specificity Green Roof Landscape Architecture Heritage Activation Typology

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2024

Project Review:

Modern, or Innovative?

Keywords:

Site Specificity Green Roof Modernism Innovation Landscape Architecture Planting Design

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2015

Essay:

Born to be Wild: Heat Leaks, and the Wrong Sort of Rewilding

Keywords:

Landscape Architecture Landscape Theory Ecocathedral Rewilding Thermodynamics

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