Kerb 31: Limit reframes constraint as a generative condition for landscape architecture, gathering voices from practice and construction to ask what the discipline's edges reveal about its future.
About This Book
As climate pressures intensify and digital tools grow more powerful, the boundaries of landscape architecture practice are being tested from every direction. Rather than treating limitation as failure, this thirty-first edition of Kerb — RMIT's journal of landscape architecture — turns constraint into a lens. The result is a genuinely counterintuitive inquiry: by mapping what the discipline cannot do, contributors illuminate what it might yet become. From the ethics of professional restraint to the material realities of construction standards, the journal draws on a wide range of practitioners to explore how limits shape design thinking and built outcomes. Essential reading for landscape architects, urban designers, and students engaged with the discipline's contested edges.
Key Features
- 128 pages of practitioner essays, interviews, and design criticism
- Contributors include landscape architect Teresa Moller and artist Mike Hewson
- Case study: Hewson's Melbourne playground 'Rocks on Wheels' and the construction standards that shaped it
- Published by Uro Publications, 2024
What You'll Discover
- How professional and regulatory constraints have shaped the careers of leading practitioners, including Teresa Moller's first-hand account of limits encountered across her practice
- The design consequences of construction standards in public space, examined through Mike Hewson's 'Rocks on Wheels' — Melbourne's deliberately 'risky' new playground
- Why embracing limitation, rather than circumventing it, may be a more productive model for expanding landscape architecture's scope and relevance
- The intersection of social, environmental, and digital pressures now bearing on traditional landscape architecture practice
About the Author
[Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922601315
- Publisher: Uro Publications
- Publication Date: 2024
Perfect For: Landscape architects and urban designers questioning their practice's boundaries, RMIT students and alumni, and design academics researching how constraint functions as a creative and ethical force.