Meet Amalie
Amalie Wright is a trusted and collaborative team player who brings a broad perspective to project design, management and delivery.
A landscape architect and architect, Amalie has worked across many project types and scales, from public art and furniture, to residential developments and parklands, resort hotels, commercial precincts and transport infrastructure.
She is one of few practitioners in the country to have received national awards from both the Australian Institute of Architects and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.
In 2012 Amalie established her design consultancy, Landscapology, focussing on small scale private gardens, and projects related to urban stormwater, community and heritage.
Amalie became increasingly drawn to projects tackling the challenges and opportunities of managing water in our cities. She also sought opportunities to build stakeholder participation into the project design process, by including residents, visitors, managers, maintenance teams, approving and funding agencies, and more, in a range of consultation and engagement activities.
These combined interests led Amalie to pause her practice and spend a two-year period working full-time on Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE), an action-research project investigating the environmental, human health and wellbeing benefits of water sensitive upgrades in informal settlements in Suva, Fiji and Makassar, Indonesia.
After winning a travel bursary awarded by mecu and Queensland’s Centre for Subtropical Design, Amalie travelled to Colombia and the United States to study the changing role of city parks. She was subsequently commissioned by CSIRO Publishing to develop her findings into a book: Future Park: imagining tomorrow’s urban parks.
In addition to her practice Amalie has been a proud and active member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, serving as Queensland President and National Board member. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the AILA. She tutored in landscape and architecture at the Queensland University of Technology, and is a regular conference speaker on the subject of parks and integrated stormwater management.
And now the real story…
Amalie grew up in a coastal cane-farming city. Her dad was a draughtsman, custodian of a printing machine that glowed purple at night, amongst other treasures.
Her mum was (and still is) the curator of a vast collection of spectacular foliage plants. With such a pedigree it was inevitable that Amalie would pursue first architecture and then landscape architecture.
She has retained her childhood love of reading, art, tap dancing and musicals. As a grownup these have been supplemented by a keen interest in printmaking, ceramics, napping, and Scandi noir.
Office Manager Skat is a part-Siamese rescue cat who has inherited the family love of snoozing and cheese. As a strictly indoor kitty, you can rest assured that she only meets wildlife through a window.