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Books by and about women landscape architects
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items A wide array of design and landscape books from spatial analysis to design for health and wellbeing, these are all books by, and about a selection of women landscape architects who have made an impact on the field.
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Books by women landscape architects
The women discussed in this volume belong to the pioneering first two generations of professional landscape architects and were outstanding in the field.
Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture
Introduction to Design Equity, an open access book for students and professionals, maps design processes and products against equity research to highlight the pitfalls and potentials of design as a tool for building social justice.
Introduction to design equity
A Landscape Manifesto includes discussions of urban ecology, environmental conservation, and environmentally beneficial building techniques.
A Landscape Manifesto
This book provides designers, planners, educators, and therapists with the practical information required to remove inequity in outdoor spaces, by creating inviting and inclusive solutions so that all children and their families, regardless of situat...
The Nature of Inclusive Play: A Guide for Designers, Educators, and Therapists
What would a school look like if it was designed with mental health in mind?
Schools That Heal: Design for Mental Health
Dynamic Geographies seeks to addresses the changing public perception of the term landscape.
Dynamic Geographies
Green grass is wide and fresh and clean for a family to play in, and brown dirt is perfect for digging a garden. But when gray buildings start to rise up and a whole city builds, can there be any room for green space? The neighborhood children think ...
Green Green: A Community Gardening Story
The Morgan Library & Museum has assembled an impressive array of trend-setting texts and outstanding works of art that reveal the origins and impact of the stylistic innovations of the Romantic Garden, in a broad cultural context, roughly from 17...
Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art & Design
I was lucky to have Kristine as a professor!
Designs on the Public | Manifold @uminnpress
The maps in this book are incredible.
Petrochemical America by Misrach & Orff
The Inspired Landscape explores the creative process of outstanding landscape architects through their most celebrated projects.
The Inspired Landscape: Twenty-One Leading Landscape Architects Explore the Creative Process
Books about woman landscape architects
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design fie...
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, who has been a landscape architect for more than sixty years, considers her profession “the art of the possible.”
Love Every Leaf: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
On Stage!, published to accompany a traveling exhibition, gathers portraits of women in the fields of planning and engineering. The 34 women portrayed hail from various countries across Europe, South America, Asia and the Middle East.
On Stage!: Women in Landscape Architecture and Planning
Women were active in landscape architecture in Scandinavia throughout the twentieth century, yet little is known about their contribution. This volume therefore asks: where are the women in Scandinavian landscape architecture? It thus presents new kn...
Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture: Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories
Just added this to my TBR. In a career spanning nearly sixty years, Ruth Shellhorn (1909–2006) helped shape Southern California’s iconic modernist aesthetic.
Ruth Shellhorn (Masters of Modern Landscape Design)
One of, if not the first female landscape architect. And Sahar’s photographs are gorgeous!
Garden as Art: Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks
Women of Steel and Stone features 22 thoroughly researched and engaging profiles of architects, engineers, and landscape designers, describing these groundbreakers' strengths, interests, and challenges as they were growing up and starting their caree...
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers
This collection of essays by leaders in the discipline addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscapes.
Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays
Martha was a huge inspiration to me in grad school!
Martha Schwartz