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- 1996 (Creation)
- 1992 (Creation)
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1 folder.
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Biographical history
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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Landscape architecture academic.
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Documents relating to the Harry Oakman Award, including photocopies of newspaper cuttings announcing the establishment of the award in 1992 and the inaugural award winner; a typed report by Malcolm Bunzli, two leaves, dated 25 September 1992, about the Harry Oakman Award, the 1992 award ceremony, the 1992 award recipient Lawrence (Lawrie) Smith of Landplan Studio in Brisbane, and the winning project by the Toowoomba City Council; bi-fold brochure about the Harry Oakman Award, established to 'recognise and promote excellence in landscape planning and landscape design' by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Queensland Group and the Royal Institute of Park and Recreation and the Local Government Association, with information on nominations, judging criteria and the assessing panel; and an 18-page booklet with colour photographs titled 'Awards for excellence in landscape architecture : Queensland Group' covering the 1996 AILA Queensland Gala Awards Night, an event where Harry Oakman was a guest of honour and the Harry Oakman Award was presented to the Gladstone City Council.
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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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Note
Box 1 Folder 5.
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- Oakman, Harry (Subject)
- Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (Subject)
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Created, Kymberley Bax, 13-May-2024.