Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture : Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riesto, Svava.

Contributor:

Steiner, Henriette.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

Women were active in landscape architecture in Scandinavia throughout the twentieth century, yet little is known about their contribution. This volume therefore asks: where are the women in Scandinavian landscape architecture? It thus presents new knowledge about women’s contributions to the shaping of modern cities and landscapes in the Scandinavian welfare states. With chapters by some of the most respected architectural and landscape architectural historians, as well as up-and-coming scholars and practice-based artistic researchers, the book make three major contributions. First, it asks the previously neglected question of women’s contributions to twntieth-century landscape architecture in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Second, it does so from a transnational perspective, bringing together researchers from Scandinavia and Finland. Third, it documents how collaborative formats for knowledge creation can generate new insights and fruitful links between researchers and research materials. The book brings to light new knowledge and new forms of architectural historical work on the contributions of many women landscape architects to designed open spaces.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

“We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Diversifying Architectural Histories

I Researching Women in Architecture

Introduction

Women, Gender, and Architectural History

The Moment We Are In!: Stories of Researching Women in Architecture

“Talking Plans” and a “Gastronomic Weekend”: Understanding Networks of Women Through Brenda Colvin’s Visitors’ Book

The Business of Childhood: Play and Nature in the Work of Marjory Allen

The Sleuth’s Dilemma: Uncovering the Hidden Histories of Early Women Architects

Between Growth and Preservation – Anne Marie Rubin’s Landscape Planning in Denmark During the 1960s Building Boom

Diary of a Woman Architect: Do Women Have to Manipulate Design Instructions?

II Building Vocabularies and Methods Together

Biography: The Hidden House

The Monadic Art of Collective Navel-Gazing

A Hungry Tea Guest’s Reflections

New Stories, New Perspectives, New Knowledge

Diversity

Woman, Show Me Your Garden

The Dimension of Time (Patience): Working with Fragilities

Impostor

A Woman’s Way of Knowing: On the Men Who Taught Me That My Way of Knowing Does Not Count

Aftermath

A Hat and a Cigarette

Otherness: Alternative Ways of Doing/ Thinking Landscape Architecture

Invisible Projection and Speculation: Intra-action – To Play the Game Differently

The Art of Layering

III Collaboration Through Workshops

On the Move – Engaging with Women Landscape Architects: Cartographic Diary of a Travelling Transect Across Malmö, 25 November 2021

Oral Archives: Searching for Undocumented Contributions by Women Landscape Professionals

Hidden Contributions? Searching for Women in Copenhagen’s Suburban Landscapes

Estate Inventory Lists as Keys to the Hidden Lives of Women Landscape Architects

Idle Talk: Circulating Information Collectively

IV Writing Differently

Rational Perspectives: Discovering and Promoting Construction Standards in 1970s and 1980s Denmark

Getting Out of the Trap – Unlearning the Ideal of a Coherent Life History

Curiosity: Looking Beyond the Established

Finding Women Landscape Architects in Scandinavia

An Attentive Gaze

The Manifestation of the Housewife?

Portrait Without a Model

The Genius Is So Over! Using Collage as a Tool to Write Women’s Histories

Ecology of the Mind and Garden

Intentions of a Place: Viemoseparken

Hidden

Towards Minor Autotheory, or Rethinking My Past Anger

The Landscape Architect Ruth Brandberg in Pompeii

The Pebble in My Pocket

Notes on Illustrations: Interview with Designer Liv Løvetand Rahbek

List of Figures

Author Biographies

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783111117522

3111117529

OCLC:

1479751329