How Trees Shape Cities | Dave Witty | DOA Guest Lecture
Melbourne: How Trees Shape Cities
Join us to hear about how trees shape cities from the author of the acclaimed book ‘What the Trees See’ Dave Witty.
The trees around us – some we may walk past every day – tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane’s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city was once jungle. The river red gums of Melbourne bear the scars of Aboriginal craft…trees hold our history and reveal it to us.
!["MELBOURNE IN 1838, FROM THE YARRA YARRA". Author/Creator:"Woodhouse, Clarence 1852-1931 artist." Date: [1888?], State Library Victoria (Australia)](https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/image/0010/4273309/TILE-2-AND-EVENTBRITE-Melbourne-from-Yarra-Yarra.jpg "\"MELBOURNE IN 1838, FROM THE YARRA YARRA\". Author/Creator:\"Woodhouse, Clarence 1852-1931 artist.\" Date: [1888?], State Library Victoria (Australia)")
Image: "MELBOURNE IN 1838, FROM THE YARRA YARRA". Author/Creator:"Woodhouse, Clarence 1852-1931 artist." Date: [1888?], State Library Victoria (Australia)
The Department of Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents the diverse guests who visit us to talk, teach and research the complexities of architecture today.
Event Details
- Date:
- 30 March 2026 at 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre G1.04, Building G, Caulfield campus
- Register here:
- https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/how-trees-shape-cities-dave-witty-doa-guest-lecture-tickets-1985407451132
- Categories:
- Architecture; Current Students; Industry / Alumni
Description
Melbourne: How Trees Shape Cities
Join us to hear about how trees shape cities from the author of the acclaimed book ‘What the Trees See’ Dave Witty.
The trees around us – some we may walk past every day – tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane’s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city was once jungle. The river red gums of Melbourne bear the scars of Aboriginal craft…trees hold our history and reveal it to us.
Image: "MELBOURNE IN 1838, FROM THE YARRA YARRA". Author/Creator:"Woodhouse, Clarence 1852-1931 artist." Date: [1888?], State Library Victoria (Australia)
The Department of Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents the diverse guests who visit us to talk, teach and research the complexities of architecture today.