Professor-Emeritus Helen Armstrong

Professor Helen Armstrong is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Cultural Research. She is an authority on the interpretation and contested values of cultural landscapes, including Australian heritage landscapes and landscapes of migration. In 1985, she established the Cultural Landscape Research Unit whose aim was to define and document the cultural environments of Australia and their resultant landscapes. She is also an authority on the designed landscape and is currently researching conceptions of landscape in post-urban cities.

Qualifications

PhD, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, 2000

Master in Landscape Architecture, UNSW, Australia, 1986

Graduate Diploma in Landscape Design, UNSW, 1976

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Honours and Awards

Fellow of Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (2005)

President’s Award, Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (2004)

AILA National Projects – Research award for Investigated Queensland’s Cultural Landscapes as Contested Terrains (2002)

National Trust Heritage Award for Migrant Heritage Places Study (1996)

AILA National Projects - Research Award for Migrant Heritage Places Study (1996)

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Selected Publications

Book Chapters

Armstrong, H. 2005, ‘Beyond the Hedonistic Playground’, in, Lehmann, S. (ed.) Absolutely Public – Crossover: Art and Architecture, Mulgrave, Victoria: Images Publishing, pp 30-34.

Armstrong, H. 1998, 'Migrant Place-Making: A Mode of Communication', in Gumpert, G. and Drucker, S. J. (eds), The Huddled Masses: Communication and Immigration, New Jersey: Hampton Press, pp 285-301.

Armstrong, H. 1994, 'Sustaining Urban Heritage in Multicultural Cities', in, Neary, S. J., Symes, M. S. & Brown, F. E. (eds), The Urban Experience: A People-Environment Perspective, London: E. and F. N. Spon, pp 479-487.

Journal Articles

Armstrong, H. 2004, ‘Making the Unfamiliar Familiar’, Landscape Research, 29(3): pp 237-260.

Armstrong, H. 2003, ‘Interpreting Landscapes/Places/Architecture: The Place for Hermeneutics in Design Theory and Practice’, Architectural Theory Review, 8(1): 63-79.

Conferences

Armstrong, H., 2006, ‘Post-Urban/Suburban Landscapes: Design and Planning the Centre, Edge and In-Between’, in Anderson, K., Dobson, R., Allon, F. & Neilson, B. (eds) 2006, After-Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney: E-Proceedings of the ‘Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation’ Conference, 22-23 November 2005, Sydney: Centre for Cultural Research.

Armstrong, H. 2003, ‘Conceptual Journeys: Using Qualitative Processes in an Inter-cultural Exploration of Place’, Keynote paper, 2003 AQR Conference - Qualitative Research: Creating Spaces for Understanding, 16-19 July 2003, Sydney.

Armstrong, H. 2002, Landscape on the Downside: Peter Latz Design Master Class, Brisbane: QUT.

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