Landscape Architecture publications

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• Kerb Landscape Architecture journal
• Technique postgraduate publication
• Fluctuating Boarders publication
• The Mesh Book - papers and case studies
• Moved to Design collection of essays and design research
• Finito graduating students of Landscape Architecture

Kerb

Kerb is the Landscape Architecture Program journal that provides a critique of ideas, projects and opinions of contemporary landscape architectural thought. The journal is unique in being compiled and edited each year by a group of interested students, from a range of articles invited from its global audience, and as a critique of current student work. Content generally focuses on current themes.

Technique

Technique is a publication of the postgraduate landscape architecture program at RMIT University. Recent Masters and PhD landscape and urbanism design research is framed by essays invited from Australasian practitioners and theorists connected with the School of Architecture and Design.

Fluctuating Borders

In late 2007, RMIT University Press published Fluctuating Borders – Speculations about Memory and Emergence, edited by Rosalea Monacella and Sue Anne Ware from Landscape Architecture. Fluctuating Borders re-considers the possibilities for international borders. In this volume designers and theorists form disciplines such as Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and the Visual Arts have reflected on and critiqued notions of memory, fluctuation and emergence. The success of Fluctuating Borders opens the way for us to deepen our interdisciplinary engagements.

The Mesh Book

The MESH Book is a combination of papers, case studies and portfoliosfrom well known Australian andinternational landscape architects,theorists, artists and designers. The book examines the notion ofinfrastructure and landscape throughthree sections based on a scale ofephemerality – from the invisible to thepresent. These scales are designed tonegotiate a defi nition of infrastructurefrom an ideology through to its conventional usage as physical form.

Moved To Design

Moved to Design is a collection of essays and design research and proposals published by RMIT University Press in 2007. The collection responds to issues of climate change and rising sea levels. Moved to Design is the result of a collaboration between staff and students from the Landscape Architecture Program at RMIT University and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Design research, proposals and design panels included in Moved to Design where exhibited in November at the Arts House Meat Market, and the publication was launched at the opening attended by students, staff, practitioners and members of the public.

Finito

Finito is an annual publication providing an overview of work from graduating students of the Landscape Architecture Program

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