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Women landscape architects: books
20 items
By
Jen Krava
These books highlight some of the women who have contributed to the field of landscape architecture
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Books by women landscape architects
Books about women and the field of landscape architecture
Books about individual women landscape architects
Books by women landscape architects
Highlights the women in the first two generations of professional landscape architects
Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture
This book is open source, and is a resource for using design as a tool to build social justice.
Introduction to design equity
I refer to this a lot. Diana Balmori shares the tenets that drive her practice.
A Landscape Manifesto
How to create inviting and inclusive designs so that all children and families can experience the joys and benefits of outdoor play without stigma.
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
Investigation of the changing meaning of the word "landscape"
Dynamic Geographies
A children's book about the importance of green space in urban areas
Green Green: A Community Gardening Story
The origins and impact of the stylistic innovations of the Romantic Garden
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
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 women and the field of landscape architecture
Portraits of women in the fields of planning and engineering
On Stage!: Women in Landscape Architecture and Planning
Features of women in Scandinavian landscape architecture
Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture: Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories
22 profiles of women architects, engineers, and landscape designers, and their careers and lived experiences
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers
This collection of essays addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice, and perception of landscapes.
Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays
Books about individual women landscape architects
One of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is a legend who considers her profession “the art of the possible.”
Love Every Leaf: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Martha was a huge inspiration to me in grad school!
Martha Schwartz
One of, if not the first female landscape architect. And Sahar’s photographs are gorgeous!
Garden as Art: Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks
Just added this to my TBR. In a career spanning nearly sixty years, Ruth Shellhorn helped shape Southern California’s iconic modernist aesthetic.
Ruth Shellhorn (Masters of Modern Landscape Design)
