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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents XIII
3. “We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Diversifying Architectural Histories 1
4. I Researching Women in Architecture
5. Introduction 25
6. Women, Gender, and Architectural History 29
7. The Moment We Are In!: Stories of Researching Women in Architecture 45
8. “Talking Plans” and a “Gastronomic Weekend”: Understanding Networks of Women Through Brenda Colvin’s Visitors’ Book 59
9. The Business of Childhood: Play and Nature in the Work of Marjory Allen 71
10. The Sleuth’s Dilemma: Uncovering the Hidden Histories of Early Women Architects 83
11. Between Growth and Preservation – Anne Marie Rubin’s Landscape Planning in Denmark During the 1960s Building Boom 93
12. Diary of a Woman Architect: Do Women Have to Manipulate Design Instructions? 105
13. II Building Vocabularies and Methods Together
14. Introduction 113
15. Biography: The Hidden House 119
16. The Monadic Art of Collective Navel-Gazing 121
17. A Hungry Tea Guest’s Reflections 123
18. New Stories, New Perspectives, New Knowledge 129
19. Diversity 131
20. Woman, Show Me Your Garden 133
21. The Dimension of Time (Patience): Working with Fragilities 137
22. Impostor 139
23. A Woman’s Way of Knowing: On the Men Who Taught Me That My Way of Knowing Does Not Count 141
24. Aftermath 147
25. A Hat and a Cigarette 149
26. Otherness: Alternative Ways of Doing/ Thinking Landscape Architecture 153
27. Invisible Projection and Speculation: Intra-action – To Play the Game Differently 155
28. The Art of Layering 157
29. III Collaboration Through Workshops
30. Introduction 165
31. On the Move – Engaging with Women Landscape Architects: Cartographic Diary of a Travelling Transect Across Malmö, 25 November 2021 169
32. Oral Archives: Searching for Undocumented Contributions by Women Landscape Professionals 181
33. Hidden Contributions? Searching for Women in Copenhagen’s Suburban Landscapes 195
34. Estate Inventory Lists as Keys to the Hidden Lives of Women Landscape Architects 209
35. Idle Talk: Circulating Information Collectively 223
36. IV Writing Differently
37. Introduction 241
38. Rational Perspectives: Discovering and Promoting Construction Standards in 1970s and 1980s Denmark 247
39. Getting Out of the Trap – Unlearning the Ideal of a Coherent Life History 251
40. Curiosity: Looking Beyond the Established 255
41. Finding Women Landscape Architects in Scandinavia 259
42. An Attentive Gaze 263
43. The Manifestation of the Housewife? 269
44. Portrait Without a Model 271
45. The Genius Is So Over! Using Collage as a Tool to Write Women’s Histories 277
46. Ecology of the Mind and Garden 279
47. Intentions of a Place: Viemoseparken 285
48. Hidden 291
49. Towards Minor Autotheory, or Rethinking My Past Anger 293
50. The Landscape Architect Ruth Brandberg in Pompeii 301
51. The Pebble in My Pocket 305
52. Notes on Illustrations: Interview with Designer Liv Løvetand Rahbek 311
53. List of Figures 315
54. Author Biographies 321
55. Index 325