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Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century by Thaïsa Way
Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century by Thaïsa Way
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Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century by Thaïsa Way
US SRP: $55.00 US
Binding: Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2009
Pub Date: April 21, 2009
Physical Info: 1.0" H x 10.1" L x 7.3" W (1.9 lbs) 320 pages
Winner of a 2008 David R. Coffin Publication Grant, awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies
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. Thaïsa 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.
Thaïsa Way is Assistant Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.
