September, 2008

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Landscape architecture as international practice: Australia as supplier, China as client

Yun Zhang

To what degree and in what way does international practice now characterise the profession of landscape architecture in Australia?

International practice reflects globalization and suggests complicated realities for professionals delivering services in geographies and cultures that differ from their own.

A recent survey of landscape architectural practices in Australia provides some evidence of how the profession is responding to trends in its work internationally, with a focus on the developing market in China since 1995, a period characterized by modernization and rapid urban expansion.

Yun Zhang is a PhD candidate in landscape architecture at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne under Professor Catherin Bull. She holds Master’s degrees from the University of Sheffield and Zhe’jiang University, and practiced as a landscape architect in Australia and China.

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