Julian Raxworthy

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 award-winning 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, the focus of his One Month Research Award at Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies in 2024. In 2024, FREE-RANGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS also won a National Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Landscape Architecture Award for Heath and Education Landscape for the University of Canberra HUB Courtyard

Photograph of Julian Raxworthy (Magriet Raxworthy,2018)