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Unbounded Practice - by Thaïsa Way (Hardcover)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Thaïsa Way is Assistant Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.
  • 320 Pages
  • Architecture, Landscape

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About the Book



Winner of a 2008 David R. Coffin Publication Grant, awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies



Book Synopsis



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, the book serves as a narrative both of women--such as Beatrix Jones Farrand, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, and Marjorie Sewell Cautley--and of the practice as it became a profession.

Winner of a 2008 David R. Coffin Publication Grant, awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies



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Unbounded Practice will transform the accepted history of American landscape architecture as a narrative of successive male designers making autonomous design innovations. Thaïsa Way provides a nuanced account of the diverse ways in which women entered and succeeded in landscape architecture praxis. The collective contributions of this wide-ranging practice are impressive and often embodied early ecological practices and social agendas intended to foster a sense of community.

--David Streatfield, University of Washington

[A] useful and intriguing resource that guides readers through the progression of landscape architecture and outlines the women who strived to fulfill their career goals and personal aspirations throughout this process.

-- "Bloomsbury Review"

Groundbreaking and innovative.... [Way] has written a rich and meaningful overview of the defining decades of our profession that should become required reading for all students of landscape architecture.

-- "Landscape Architecture"

The story of American women as practitioners in the field of landscape design is one that has not been told before as completely as it is here. Way writes not just about women landscape designers but very insightfully about the landscape profession coming of age in the early twentieth century through the education and practices of both men and women. Unbounded Practice is an original and valuable work.

--Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies, author of Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

Way gives a lively and learned account of the evolution of women from amateur garden designers into professional landscape architects during the first half of the 20th century.

-- "European Journal of Landscape Architecture"



About the Author



Thaïsa Way is Assistant Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.

Dimensions (Overall): 10.1 Inches (H) x 7.3 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 320
Genre: Architecture
Sub-Genre: Landscape
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Thaïsa Way
Language: English
Street Date: April 21, 2009
TCIN: 1003465791
UPC: 9780813928081
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-6296
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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