Title & Author:

Women, modernity, and landscape architecture / [edited by] Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.
©2015

Description:

ix, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.
Creating new landscapes for old Europe: Herta Hammerbacher, Sylvia Crowe, Maria Teresa Parpagliolo / Sonja Dümpelmann -- International training and national ambitions: female landscape architects in Sweden, 1900-1950 / Catharina Nolin -- Urbanist landscape: Militsa Prokhorova, Liubov' Zalesskaia, and the emergence of Soviet landscape architecture / Alla G. Vronskaya -- Anna Plischke and Helene Wolf: designing gardens in early twentieth-century Austria / Ulrike Krippner and Iris Meder -- Creative margins: three women in post-war French landscape architecture / Bernadette Blanchon -- Modernity, mining and improvement: Joane Pim and the practice(s) of "landscape culture" in mid-twentieth-century South Africa / Jeremy Foster -- American landscape architecture at mid-century: modernism, science, and art / Thaïsa Way -- Ruth Patricia Shellhorn: mid-century living in the Southern California landscape / Kelly Comras -- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: a model modern / Susan Herrington -- Beyond Roberto Burle Marx: another genealogy of modern landscape architecture in Brazil / Zeuler R.M. de A. Lima.

Summary:

"Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape architects who pursued modernist ideals in their designs. The women discussed in this volume belong to the pioneering first two generations of professional landscape architects and were outstanding in the field. They not only developed notable practices but some also became leaders in landscape architectural education as the first professors in the discipline, or prolific lecturers and authors ... The book is ideal reading for those studying landscape history, women's studies, and cultural geography". From book jacket.

ISBN:

9780415745871 (hardback ; alk. paper)
041574587X (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415745888 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415745888 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315732961

Subject:

Women landscape architects Biography.
Landscape architecture History.
Femmes architectes paysagistes Biographies.
Architecture du paysage Histoire.
landscaping.
women.
biographies.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
20.10 art and society: general.
Landscape architecture.
Women landscape architects.
Kvinnliga arkitekter.
Kvinnor.
Landskapsarkitekter biografi.
Landskapsarkitektur.
Modernism (arkitektur)

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Duempelmann, Sonja, editor.
Beardsley, John, editor.
Dümpelmann, Sonja editor.
Beardsley, John editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289867
Call No.: BIB 232552
Status: Available