Queensland sites
Griffith University Campus, Queesland, Australia
The Griffith University campus landscape was designed by Roger Johnson. Whilst the intention was for the buildings to contrast with the landscape – a naturalistic Australian setting was viewed as appropriate for a tertiary institution. Johnson’s design represented a departure from earlier campus landscapes which had borrowed heavily from images of verdant university campuses found in the United Kingdom and North America.
Around this time a number of other Australian universities developed landscape settings evocative of the bush, including Macquarie University, Sydney; University of Canberra as well as Monash University in Melbourne.
Under the influence of Barbara van den Broek environmental initiatives were incorporated in the design.
Edwina Richardson AAILA
>> Project report from Landscape Arustralia 1/81, February 1981
