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. Thaisa Way corrects this oversight in Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth...
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 189...