The 2009 Margaret
Hendry Talk
Design with Landscape
6pm, Thursday 10th December 2009
Gallery of Australian Design, Canberra
The 2009 Talk to be presented by Bruce Mackenzie AM
Free event – please register to assist with catering (see bottom
of this page)
Followed by a very Canberra by-the-lake Christmas Celebration hosted by AILA ACT.
Bruce Mackenzie is in hiding writing a book, which he insists is not simply to be a retrospective view of work. For the Margaret Hendry Talk on 10th December Bruce will focus more on the book's reason for being - the rationale of landscape design thinking rather than that of 'making landscape'.
The 2009 talk bears the same title as the coming book: Design with Landscape. The Talk will be informed by examples of work to demonstrate and validate principles he expounds; principles that have inspired and informed the course of his landscape design and planning experience over 45 years. |
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As Bruce says, ‘Thinking' landscape, according to my adopted premise, raises the question of responsibility (and opportunity) for all who engage in making decisions about landscape. Landscape architects do not have exclusive tenure. It is an inescapable fact that landscape architecture, conceptually, is the basis of understanding and guidance that provides the starting point for all work that impacts upon the land; where anything added and anything taken away has an affect on its quality and the effect of course can and should be always beneficial. Landscape architectural wisdom cannot make good the residue of wrong decisions.
As a general rule this precept – 'intended to regulate behavior or thought' – applies to the work of architects, planners, engineers, and (predictably) landscape architects; the network of responsibility extends to all who make decisions affecting the land and how we may use it. Other participants include for instance…council officers in local government, council aldermen, personnel in government agencies who determine land use issues, and citizens who invest themselves in local community matters involving land management options. Government itself, its representatives and administrators, are of course major players in this concept of custodianship of society's precious estate.”
Bruce Mackenzie is known for the contribution he has made, through his professional interest, to the emergence of an Australian consciousness that embraces a new appreciation of the indigenous environment. This concern for the true nature of Australia and the special qualities of its natural sense of place underlies a design ethos that he promotes and respects.
Bruce Mackenzie has been in practice as a landscape architect for over four decades, has lectured at Sydney University, has provided guest lectures to students of landscape architecture, architecture and horticulture at universities and colleges throughout Australia. Bruce is an enthusiastic writer and photographer, he has had many articles published in professional journals and has presented at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Hong Kong.
– and for those out of town visitors – ensure that you stay on for the ’Must See’ NGA exhibition… Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond. The exhibition features 112 of some of the best-known works of modern art that draws millions of tourists to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, one of the great museums of 19th-century art.
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Margaret
Hendry had an important role in the early years of the
AILA and had an on-going commitment to the profession.
Visit the online versions of documentation about
and by Margaret.
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the 2005 Inaugural
Margaret Hendry Talk was presented by Professor Catherin Bull
" New Conversations with an Old Landscape. The importance of Canberra"
To
book, email the AILA National Office or phone on 02 6248 9970
Visit
the online versions of documentation about
and by Margaret.
