Farrand, Beatrix Jones, June 19, 1872-Feb. 27, 1959, Landscape Architect
Author : Eleanor M. McPeck
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Notable American Women
Author : Barbara Sicherman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780674627338
Book Description
Modeled on the "Dictionary of American Biography, "this set stands alone but is a good complement to that set which contained only 700 women of 15,000 entries. The preparation of the first set of "Notable American Women" was supported by Radcliffe College. It includes women from 1607 to those who died before the end of 1950; only 5 women included were born after 1900. Arranged throughout the volumes alphabetically, entries are from 400 to 7,000 words and have bibliographies. There is a good introductory essay and a classified lest of entries in volume three.
Beatrix Farrand
Author : Judith B. Tankard
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers, her gardens have been photographed at their peak for this book, and complemented by watercolor wash renderings of her designs.--From publisher description.
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195335791
Book Description
Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.
Great Lives from History
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Women
ISBN :
Book Description
Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them
Author : Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393731248
Book Description
An account of eminent women landscape architects who flourished in the golden age of country estates. This beautiful book covers in depth the work of six designers Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders and looks at a dozen other less-well-known women. It focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and as professionals.
Women in World History: Ead-Fur
Author : Anne Commire
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
"Locating information on women is difficult and the editors have done a fine job assembling and publishing information extant on individual women from many nations both living and dead. Because in some cases only birth, marriage, children, and death dates are known, the 10,000 articles vary in length according to the subject. If you haven't been able to answer reference questions on women, you need this set."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.
Directory of Historical Figures
Author : Salem Press
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
Forest and Garden
Author : Melanie Louise Simo
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813921594
Book Description
How wild and managed or artificially arranged environments coexist has long been a matter of intense debate among foresters and landscape professionals.
Women in Landscape Architecture
Author : Louise A. Mozingo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 078648733X
Book Description
While many fields struggle to specify feminine contributions, the work of women has always played a fundamental role in American landscape architecture. Women claim responsibility for many landscape types now taken for granted, including community gardens, playgrounds, and streetscapes. This collection of essays by leaders in the discipline addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscapes. It highlights women's relation to landscape architecture, presents the professional efforts of women in the landscape realm, examines both the perception and experience of landscapes by women, and speculates on ways to re-imagine gender and the landscape.
