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

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Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture

Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories

Edited by: Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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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.

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

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	XIII
“We Don’t Need Another Hero”: Diversifying Architectural Histories Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	1
I Researching Women in Architecture
Introduction Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	25
Women, Gender, and Architectural History Mary McLeod Open Access Download PDF	29
The Moment We Are In!: Stories of Researching Women in Architecture Lori Brown, Despina Stratigakos, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	45
“Talking Plans” and a “Gastronomic Weekend”: Understanding Networks of Women Through Brenda Colvin’s Visitors’ Book Luca Csepely-Knorr Open Access Download PDF	59
The Business of Childhood: Play and Nature in the Work of Marjory Allen Margaret Birney Vickery Open Access Download PDF	71
The Sleuth’s Dilemma: Uncovering the Hidden Histories of Early Women Architects Kelly Hayes McAlonie Open Access Download PDF	83
Between Growth and Preservation – Anne Marie Rubin’s Landscape Planning in Denmark During the 1960s Building Boom Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	93
Diary of a Woman Architect: Do Women Have to Manipulate Design Instructions? Sharmeen Dafedar Open Access Download PDF	105
II Building Vocabularies and Methods Together
Introduction Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	113
Biography: The Hidden House Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen Open Access Download PDF	119
The Monadic Art of Collective Navel-Gazing Vera Vicenzotti Open Access Download PDF	121
A Hungry Tea Guest’s Reflections Svava Riesto Open Access Download PDF	123
New Stories, New Perspectives, New Knowledge Nina Marie Andersen Open Access Download PDF	129
Diversity Maria Gabriella Trovato Open Access Download PDF	131
Woman, Show Me Your Garden Maria Bay Wendt Open Access Download PDF	133
The Dimension of Time (Patience): Working with Fragilities Lisa Diedrich Open Access Download PDF	137
Impostor Annegreth Dietze-Schirdewahn Open Access Download PDF	139
A Woman’s Way of Knowing: On the Men Who Taught Me That My Way of Knowing Does Not Count Liv Løvetand Rahbek Open Access Download PDF	141
Aftermath Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	147
A Hat and a Cigarette Catharina Nolin Open Access Download PDF	149
Otherness: Alternative Ways of Doing/ Thinking Landscape Architecture Lei Gao Open Access Download PDF	153
Invisible Projection and Speculation: Intra-action – To Play the Game Differently Rikke Munck Petersen Open Access Download PDF	155
The Art of Layering Ranja Hautamäki Open Access Download PDF	157
III Collaboration Through Workshops
Introduction Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	165
On the Move – Engaging with Women Landscape Architects: Cartographic Diary of a Travelling Transect Across Malmö, 25 November 2021 Lisa Diedrich and Johan Wirdelöv Open Access Download PDF	169
Oral Archives: Searching for Undocumented Contributions by Women Landscape Professionals Annegreth Dietze-Schirdewahn and Lei Gao Open Access Download PDF	181
Hidden Contributions? Searching for Women in Copenhagen’s Suburban Landscapes Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	195
Estate Inventory Lists as Keys to the Hidden Lives of Women Landscape Architects Catharina Nolin Open Access Download PDF	209
Idle Talk: Circulating Information Collectively Heidi Svenningsen Kajita and Meike Schalk Open Access Download PDF	223
IV Writing Differently
Introduction Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	241
Rational Perspectives: Discovering and Promoting Construction Standards in 1970s and 1980s Denmark Torben Dam Open Access Download PDF	247
Getting Out of the Trap – Unlearning the Ideal of a Coherent Life History Julia Donner Open Access Download PDF	251
Curiosity: Looking Beyond the Established Marie Markman Open Access Download PDF	255
Finding Women Landscape Architects in Scandinavia Lei Gao Open Access Download PDF	259
An Attentive Gaze Nina Marie Andersen Open Access Download PDF	263
The Manifestation of the Housewife? Annegreth Dietze-Schirdewahn Open Access Download PDF	269
Portrait Without a Model Ranja Hautamäki Open Access Download PDF	271
The Genius Is So Over! Using Collage as a Tool to Write Women’s Histories Frida Irving Søltoft Open Access Download PDF	277
Ecology of the Mind and Garden Henriette Steiner Open Access Download PDF	279
Intentions of a Place: Viemoseparken Mathilde Lundt Larsen Open Access Download PDF	285
Hidden Mathilde Merolli Open Access Download PDF	291
Towards Minor Autotheory, or Rethinking My Past Anger Vera Vicenzotti Open Access Download PDF	293
The Landscape Architect Ruth Brandberg in Pompeii Catharina Nolin Open Access Download PDF	301
The Pebble in My Pocket Maria Bay Wendt Open Access Download PDF	305
Notes on Illustrations: Interview with Designer Liv Løvetand Rahbek Marie Kiersgaard Espersen Open Access Download PDF	311
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	315
Author Biographies Open Access Download PDF	321
Index Open Access Download PDF	325

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eBook published on:

December 2, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783111117522

Hardcover published on:

December 2, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111117157

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Front matter:

17

Main content:

328

Illustrations:

16

Coloured Illustrations:

19

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111117522

eBook ISBN: 9783111117522

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111117157

Keywords for this book

Scandinavia; Feminism; historiography; landscape architecture

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Scholars/students of landscape architecture and architecture, feminism, and urban and cultural history.

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