Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture

Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-111715-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Women were active in landscape architecture in Scandinavia throughout the twentieth century, yet little is known about their contribution. This volume therefore asks: here 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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars/students of landscape architecture and architecture, fem

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steiner, Henriette

Riesto, Svava

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Associate Professor, PhD, Svava Riesto, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Associate Professor, PhD, Henriette Steiner, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.