The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
Kevin Taylor Scholarship
Call for Partnerships
Following the tragic loss to the profession of Kevin Taylor in August 2011, the AILA undertook to establish a national scholarship that would offer opportunities to landscape architects to carry out research and professional development.
The intention is that the scholarship would be offered to candidates who could demonstrate that their proposal reflected Kevin Taylor's philosophies on Landscape Architecture.
This Initial Call for Partners
This call is about contacting the practices and individuals who wish to be involved as a contributor to a fund that has been established to underpin the scholarship.
The scholarship will be overseen by the AILA Board. Other details are yet to be determined.
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Do you/your firm wish to make an annual contribution?
If so - please contact the National Office 
and provide:
A statement that you/your company are prepared to become partners with the AILA in the Kevin Taylor Scholarship and agree to be invoiced annually for the contribution.
Name: individual or company
Annual contribution: $500/ $1,000/ $2,000 - other
person to be contacted (if different to above) and the contacts to receive the invoice.
There will be more formal statements uploaded to outline the conditions and requirements for the scholarship.
Meanwhile we have provided some words to guide the thinking - these taken from the article in Landscape Architecture Australia February 2012 (quoting Perry Lethlean with slight adjustment).
Kevin's affinity with a place and of its people was his gift.
Through a layered process of walking, conversation, writing, research and above all listening, Kevin could tap into the soul of a place.
We understood - only through this nuanced understanding of a site could creativity and innovation follow.
His work had integrity.
The Australian landscape was Kevin's garden.
He felt a unique connection to it and brought this love into his work.
He experienced our country, understood it, and enjoyed participating in its spirit, its earth, its rhythms and stories.
He saw the landscape through a poet's eyes; through abstraction and distillation he created remarkably rich sensory landscapes across this country.
other links
Profile on Kevin Taylor
Tribute by Bruce Mackenzie
