| Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century Contributor(s): Way, Thaïsa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813928087 ISBN-13: 9780813928081 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Women have practiced as landscape architects for over a century, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the 1890s. They came to landscape architecture as gardeners, garden designers, horticulturalists, and fine artists. They simultaneously shaped the profession while reflecting contemporary practice. It is all the more surprising, then, that the history of women in American landscape design has received relatively little attention. ThaAsa Way corrects this oversight in Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century. Describing design practice in landscape architecture during the first half of the twentieth century, the book serves as a narrative both of women--such as Beatrix Jones Farrand, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, and Marjorie Sewell Cautley--and of the practice as it became a profession. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Landscape - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 712.082 |
| LCCN: 2008034281 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 7.3" W x 10.1" (1.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
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| Publisher Description: Women have practiced as landscape architects for over a century, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the 1890s. They came to landscape architecture as gardeners, garden designers, horticulturalists, and fine artists. They simultaneously shaped the profession while reflecting contemporary practice. It is all the more surprising, then, that the history of women in American landscape design has received relatively little attention. Tha sa Way corrects this oversight in Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century. Describing design practice in landscape architecture during the first half of the twentieth century, the book serves as a narrative both of women--such as Beatrix Jones Farrand, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, and Marjorie Sewell Cautley--and of the practice as it became a profession. Winner of a 2008 David R. Coffin Publication Grant, awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies |