Layered Landscapes: Links between Brazil and Australia after the Second World War

Abstract

The modern garden in Australia after the Second World War reflected international design movements along with new appreciations of the country’s indigenous landscapes. Conservation activities and concern for environmental quality expanded in the face of the development boom’s insatiable quest for resources and unprecedented threats to natural systems. The Australian profession of landscape architecture, institutionalised in 1966, emerged in response. An uneasy association of planners, architects, horticulturalists, foresters and others stemmed from sometimes vastly different standpoints that remarkably coalesced around singular points of reference. One possible source requiring clarification..