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Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century
Thaïsa Way
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Description for Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century
Paperback. Num Pages: 305 pages, black & white illustrations, colour plates. BIC Classification: ACXD2; AMV; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 180 x 23. Weight in Grams: 689.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813934822
SKU
V9780813934822
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About Thaïsa Way
Thaïsa Way is Assistant Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, USA.
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