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Anton James presents keynote at the ASPSA conference

10.10.2016

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10.10.2016

Anton James presents keynote at the ASPSA conference

Director at JMDdesign, Anton James, presented a keynote at the ASPSA conference in Adelaide held on September 24-25 in Adelaide – see the review at http

Director at JMDdesign, Anton James, presented a keynote at the ASPSA conference in Adelaide held on September 24-25 in Adelaide.

"Home” is a chequered concept for many of us. In Italian there is no word for it – only “casa” for “house,” underlining its inevitable domestic associations. These can be anathema for designers like keynote Anton James, a Sydney landscape architect who generally works close to home but is keen to shrug off security in favour of impulses much stronger and experientially disconcerting. James’s brilliant painterly explorations of “how to be at home in the landscape” produce surprising strangeness out of somewhat familiar phenomena: puddles, puddings and pressed-tin panel patterns applied at the topographical scale."

Read the full review