MARGARET
J. HENDRY
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT & SENIOR LECTURER
DATE
OF BIRTH: l l MAY 1930, Melbourne, Australia.
CURRICULA VITAE
QUALIFICATIONS:
1948 Certificate
of Competency in Horticulture,
Burnely Horticultural
College, Victoria.
1957 Diploma in Landscape Design (Dunelm)
King's College,
Durham
University,
England.
APPOINTMENTS:
1963-74 Landscape Architect,
National
Capital Development Commission.
1963-66 Inaugural
Honorary Secretary
on Provisional Council to form AILA.
1966-69
Honorary Secretary and Council member of the AILA.
1970
President, Soroptimist Club of Canberra.
1974-75
President,
Business and Professional Women's Clubs NSW Division.
1974-76
Admissions Committee,
Canberra College of Advanced Education.
1975
Elected Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Landscape
Architects and the Landscape
Institute (UK).
1975-76
Women's Advisory Board to the NSW Government.1976-1978
Women's Advisory Council to the NSW Government.
1979
Chairperson, AILA Accreditation Committee, Landscape Architecture
Course, Queensland Institute of Technology.
1980-87
Curriculum Advisory Committee Member, Woden TAFE Horticultural Division.
1982
IFLA 20th World Congress.
Chairperson of session on World
Heritage Sites in Australia. Franklin River.
1983
Chairperson for the selection of the first person to be awarded the
Award in Landscape
Architecture.
1985
Keynote speaker and paper: Documentation for Landscape Work. Ryde
School of Horticulture, Sydney, National Seminar AILA & ICA.
1986
Chairperson and Jury member for the first Award of Design Excellence.
1989-90
Member of the Committee to establish the Friends of the Australian
National Botanic Gardens.
1991
Member of NCPA
Committee on the Trees in the Parliamentary Zone.
1995-96
Commemorative Tree Planting Committee, Order of Australia Association.
AWARDS & PRIZES:
1948
Mary Janet Lucus Memorial Prize. Burnely Horticultural College.
1992 Order of Australia Medal.
1995 South Canberra Rotary Club Community Service Award.
EXPERIENCE
SUMMARY:
Since graduating in horticulture, I have directed my career towards landscape
design and teaching, assisting in the formation of the Australian Institute
of Landscape Architects. Acted as the first Honorary Secretary and Chairperson
of the Membership Committee. More recently, I assisted in the preparation
of the course at Canberra College of Advanced Education and appointed the
inaugural
senior lecturer.
I
have been consistently employed as a landscape architect until my
retirement. Since then, I
have undertaken commissions and worked as a consultant in specialised
fields in my profession.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE;
1958-61 Landscape Architect with the Basildon Development Corporation (England),
working under Dame Sylvia Crowe on large and small scale projects typical
of New Town Development.
1963-74
Worked on a wide range of large scale projects for the National
Capital Development Commission, including housing areas, schools,
playgrounds, playing fields, shopping centres, recreation areas and cemeteries.
1974-85
Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Design,
Canberra College of Advanced Education.
1989-94 S.F. Landscape
Consultants. Participated in
project development and the report on the Maintenance and Management
of the Parliamentary Zone.
PUBLICATIONS:
1976 ANZAAS
39th Congress. "Suburban Open Space, Its Value and Use".
1978"Open
Space - Its Value and Use". Interbild, London.
1979 "Canberra
- A City within a Landscape: an evaluation of the provision
of parkland and public open space". Elsevier Scientific Publishing
Coy, Amsterdam Referred Journal.
1980 "The Parliamentary
Triangle - Canberra a city within a landscape",
Landscape Australia, 4 Nov, pp 268-275.
1982 Professional
Practice in Landscape Design. S.E.D.
publication no.3,
CCAE Canberra.
1983 "Getting
a Good Job Done Happily", The
Landscaper,
No. 30, June.
1985 Practice
Notes for Landscape Architects.
Edn 2. S.E.D. publication no 7, CCAE Canberra.
1986 "The
Life and Times of Mervyn Davis", Landscape Australia,
1 Feb. pp 57-59.
1993 "Urban and rural landscape developments
in Canberra, The problem and science of human settlements". The
Landscape: Design and Planning. Ekistics.
Vol 60
no 370/361 May/
