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Award for Design in Landscape Architecture
Special
Jury Citation for Art in the Landscape
TERRA FLUXUS
Landscape Architects: Craig Douglas
and Rosalea Monacella, RMIT University
Construction: Vertogo High Access
Terra Fluxus navigates a difficult terrain
which is inherently problematic for the profession of Landscape
Architecture.
Experimental, unprescribed and risky, Terra
Fluxus operates interactively and enticingly as a decidedly spatial
project. Between debates regarding the confluences and contradictions of
art and design, temporality and permanence, sustainable material practice
and unsustainable joy, the spatial expertise of landscape architects is
capable of finding and sharing very particular experiences and knowledge.
Posing simultaneously and variously as object, passage, shaft, screen,
veil and envelope, it is at once a vehicle through and voyage of ideas, a
playground and itself at-play. Evocative of a rain shower or the observed
violence of a distant wind squall, the red sculpture's ceaseless
interaction between the green-blue contexts of landscape, of weather,
atmosphere, time of day, surrounding parkland and of both remote and
intimate audiences, is its strength and purpose.
The jury commends the technical
experimentation as well as the surprise and enchantment of this temporal
landscape/art piece and has been delighted to review a number of art-
based submissions in this year's design category. It is strong evidence of
the broadening base of landscape architecture in Australia and of a
confidence to explore unchartered territories.
Images
Photographs: Craig Douglas |
