Drawing from over 50 years practise as a landscape architect, Beth Wilson has written “Brisbane Houses with Gardens” as an insight for landscape and history enthusiasts alike.

In 1970, Beth began her career when landscape was an afterthought in building projects in Brisbane, if considered at all. She went on to work on many landmark projects including Cathedral Square, the redevelopment of the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Queen Street Mall, Suncorp Stadium and the Eleanor Schonell Bridge. 

Beth was an inaugural member of the Australian Garden History Society and taught history of landscape architecture at the Queensland University of Technology in the 1980s.  She was the first landscape architect to be awarded an honorary fellowship of the Australian Institute of Architects, Queensland chapter in 2015, cited for her: “her depth of understanding of history and place-making, her unrivalled knowledge of plants and vegetation, and her ability to read a site … and for pioneering landscape as part of interior architecture.”