Sebastian is a Landscape Architect at LatStudios & Landscape Architectural Research Assistant at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University. Seb is particularly concerned with the health of Victoria’s Volcanic Plain natural temperate grasslands.

Seb graduated with a Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) with Distinction from RMIT University in 2023. His thesis project for the MLA, named Patchwork Plains, focussed on
the reintegration of natural temperate grasslands back into Melbourne’s western suburbs, focussing on the Jones Creek Grassland Reserve in St Albans.

Patchwork Plains was awarded the RMIT Landscape Architecture Design Research Prize for 2022, has been nominated for the 2023 Hassell Travelling Scholarship and was awarded one of Landscape Architecture Australia’s 2022 National Landscape Architecture Student Prizes. The project was also selected by RMIT to represent the university at the Manuel Ribas International School Prize at the
Barcelona Landscape International Biennial.

In his time at LatStudios he has worked on various Council strategies relating to open space curation and pedestrian & cyclist connectivity, as well as planting and landscape designs for a variety of public and private spaces around Australia.

Since joining LatStudios, key projects have included:

• Canberra Hospital Stage 2 Master Plan
• Kingston Open Space Strategy
• Banksia Garden Estate Master Plan