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Australia's most awarded landscape architecture and urban design firm, Taylor Cullity Lethlean illustrates 18 of their leading projects, featuring critical essays from international contributors. Since 1989, TCL has undertaken an investigation into the poetic expression of [the] Australian landscape and contemporary culture. This has permeated their design work in a multiplicity of public settings from urban waterfronts to desert walking trails. In each case, the detailed exploration of context, site, and community have informed outcomes and enriched the patterning and detail of built landscapes. Entering into the Taylor Cullity Lethlean workspace, [one] is drawn into an exchange between the collaborative space of the design studio and the wider Australian landscapes of cities, suburbs, the outback, and the infrastructures that define them. Published by Spacemaker Press and edited by University Professors, Gini Lee and Sue Anne Ware, Making Sense of Landscape features 17 essays by leading writers, academics, curators, artists and designers. The essays delve into over 25 years of work by TCL, accompanied by project plans, drawings and captivating professional photography. Among the featured projects are the Australian Garden –Winner 2013 World Architecture Festival Landscape of the Year Award, and other highly awarded projects including Forest Gallery at the Melbourne Museum, The National Canberra Arboretum, Auckland Waterfront and Adelaide’s North Terrace. Internationally renowned publisher, Gordon Goff of ORO Editions, who is distributing the book....