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)
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)
Contact:
julian.raxworthy [at] gmail.com
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2016
Essay:
Building a Wilderness with Louis Le Roy
Keywords:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Prince Alfred Park
Keywords:
Site Specificity Green Roof Landscape Architecture Heritage Activation Typology
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2024
Project Review:
Modern, or Innovative?
Keywords:
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:
Born to be Wild: Heat Leaks, and the Wrong Sort of Rewilding
Keywords:
Landscape Architecture Landscape Theory Ecocathedral Rewilding Thermodynamics