As landscape architecture has become more representational it has lost touch with maintenance tools in that allow for the optimization of the properties of change that landscape materials like plants have, such as growth. In this lecture, Raxworthy sets out an overview of his book, Overgrown, and advances a new model for plant form – the viridic, a landscape equivalent of the tectonic, from the Latin for green, connoting spring and growth – which he argues has been under-theorized in landscape architecture.
Dr. Julian Raxworthy is a registered landscape architect and Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. He has been faculty at RMIT, QUT and the University of Cape Town, and visiting professor at the University of Virginia & ENSP Versailles. His book Overgrown: practices between landscape architecture and gardening published in 2018 by MIT Press was supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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