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- 2016-2019 (Creation)
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2 folders.
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Malcolm Bunzli was born in Brisbane in 1933. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Queensland in 1959. He worked as an architect for the Commonwealth Works Department in Brisbane before moving to England, where he continued his career in architecture and studied for a Post Graduate Diploma in Landscape Design at Durham University. It was the only full-time landscape architecture course in the British Commonwealth of Nations at the time. While in England he married his wife, Dorothy Bunzli, with whom he had a daughter and two sons.
Malcolm returned to Australia in 1965, briefly worked as an architect and landscape designer at Conrad Gargett, then became the first Landscape Architect in the Queensland State Government. He was responsible for setting up and overseeing the Landscape Section in the State Works Department. While in this role he spearheaded efforts to secure official recognition for the professional designation 'Landscape Architect' across all government sectors in the state and advocated for salary scales equivalent to those of architects. Malcolm played a key role in establishing then coordinating and teaching the postgraduate landscape architecture course at the then Queensland Institute of Technology (now the Queensland University of Technology or QUT). Malcolm was a foundation member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and served as National President from 1973 to 1975. He retired from active landscape architecture practice in 1993.
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Correspondence, interview transcripts, photographs and drafts relating to Malcolm Bunzli's assistance with research on the history of landscape architecture in Queensland and Karl Langer.
Folder 3
Printed email correspondence and handwritten and typed interview preparation notes relating to an interview with Malcolm Bunzli and friend and fellow landscape architect George Williams, facilitated by documentarian Margaret McHugh on behalf of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), for AILA's 50th anniversary in 2016.
Typed transcript of an audio interview recorded in 2018, 104 minutes in length, with George Williams ('Male 1') and Malcolm Bunzli ('Male 2') as interviewees, and possibly Andrew Saniga as the facilitator, in which they discuss Malcolm and George's respective careers, Karl Langer, Harry Oakman, James Birrell, Roger Johnson, Neil Thyer and other architects, as well as the evolution of landscape architecture education at the Queensland University of Technology. Some handwritten annotations in pen.
Colour photograph, 10 x 16 cm, possibly taken in 2018, of Malcolm Bunzli, George Williams and Malcolm's wife Dorothy.
Printed email correspondence between Andrew Saniga and Malcolm in 2018, as well as Malcolm's typed curriculum vitae.
Typed brief biography for Malcolm Bunzli, with some corrections in pen.
Malcolm's handwritten notes in pen, possibly created in preparation for the interview with George Williams and Andrew Saniga, about various Queensland architects and their projects.
Folder 4
Printed email correspondence from 2019 between Andrew Saniga and Malcolm, as well as typed drafts of Andrew Saniga and Andrew Wilson's chapter titled 'In a league of his own : Karl Langer's landscape Australia' for 2021 publication Karl Langer : Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics.
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Unrestricted access.
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In copyright. Contact the Fryer Library. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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- English
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Box 1 Folders 3-4.
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- Langer, Karl, 1903-1969 (Subject)
- Oakman, Harry (Subject)
- Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (Subject)
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Created, Kymberley Bax, 10-May-2024.