Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century

by Thaïsa Way

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813934826
• ISBN13: 9780813934822
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.0"