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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: women, modernity, and landscape architecture; 1 Creating new landscapes for old Europe: Herta Hammerbacher, Sylvia Crowe, Maria Teresa Parpagliolo; 2 International training and national ambitions: female landscape architects in Sweden, 1900-1950; 3 Urbanist landscape: Militsa Prokhorova, Liubov' Zalesskaia, and the emergence of Soviet landscape architecture; 4 Anna Plischke and Helene Wolf: designing gardens in early twentieth-century Austria |
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5 Creative margins: three women in post-war French landscape architecture6 Modernity, mining and improvement: Joane Pim and the practice(s) of "landscape culture" in mid-twentieth-century South Africa; 7 American landscape architecture at mid-century: modernism, science, and art; 8 Ruth Patricia Shellhorn: mid-century living in the Southern California landscape; 9 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: a model modern; 10 Beyond Roberto Burle Marx: another genealogy of modern landscape architecture in Brazil; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 ar |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index |
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Women landscape architects -- Biography
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Landscape architecture -- History
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landscaping.
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women.
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biographies.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
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GARDENING -- Garden Design.
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GARDENING -- Landscape.
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Landscape architecture
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Women landscape architects
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Kvinnliga arkitekter.
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Kvinnor.
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Landskapsarkitekter -- biografi.
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Landskapsarkitektur.
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Modernism (arkitektur)
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Duempelmann, Sonja, editor
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Beardsley, John, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317556558 |
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1317556550 |
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9781317556541 |
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1317556542 |
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9781317556534 |
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1317556534 |
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1315732963 |
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9781315732961 |
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