1、2000 单词， 10800 英文字符 ， 3400 汉字 Harry Howard was the first landscape architect I met. The first landscape project I can recall seeing was the model of Canberras High Court of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia, in Howards office in McMahons Point, Sydney in 1976. Howard was part of a grou
2、p of landscape architects that started the AILA in 1966. This group changed the profession through its practice, drawing together to elevate the profession in Australia. The now-mature Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Australia forms a fitting tribute to Howards vision, his sense of scale
3、 and proportion, his humility and the lightness of his design touch. The HCA/ANG precinct, as it was titled on the drawings, was many years in the planning and design phase. The key component of the precinct is the Sculpture Garden, now thirty years old. The garden was designed specifically around s
4、everal sculptures that the inaugural gallery director, James Mollison, had been acquiring since the mid 1970s. The garden is the product of a collaboration between Mollison, architect Col Madigan, Howard and Barbara Buchanan, the project landscape architect. A young Mervyn Dorrough moved to Canberra
5、 to act as landscape superintendent during the construction phase. The Sculpture Garden is one of the few gardens in Canberra that architects get excited about. If you ask architects what their favourite Canberra landscape is, the answer is very often, “The Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery.”
6、 This is counterintuitive for me, for here is a landscape that, at least on two sides of the building, dominates the building and creates the space. The brutalist gallery facade is subservient to the canopy of the eucalypts. My choice for the best view in Canberra is that from the National Gallery Members Lounge looking north to the lake, through the canopies of the randomly planted eucalypts. This view matches the hand-drawn presentation images prepared during the design phase in the late 1
