..Diana
Balmori..Shengling
Chang..Terry
Clements ..Madhavi
Desai..Rebecca
Fish Ewan..Dagmar
Grimm-Pretner..Heidi
Hohmann..Daniel
W. Krall..Laura
Lawson..Valencia
Libby..Kristine
Miller..Cornelia
Hahn Oberlander..Mariko
Roberts..Ilaria
Salvadori..Sophie
Sauve..Sally
Schauman..Terry
Schnadelbach..Rebecca
Solnit..Bonj
Szczygiel..Judith
B. Tankard..Thaisa
Way ..Diana
Webb..Jane
Wolff ..Dorothy
Wurman Diana Balmori
Thursday Night Public Lecture Ms. Balmori is the founder of Balmori Associates with offices in New York and Connecticut. Recently completed projects include the Master Plan for Kent Falls State Park, Kent Falls, CT; Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner Center Institute Courtyard, Cleveland, Ohio; Master Plan and Landscape for a new technological Universidad 21 Campus, Cordoba, Argentina; Landscape Master Plan for the Eighteenth Century Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; Public Spaces for Chubu Cultural Center, Kurayoshi, Japan. Projects in progress include 20 River Terrace, Battery Park City, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan; Avery Courtyard, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; Socrates Park, New York City, NY; Broadway Courtyard, Birch Walk, New Haven, CT. Balmori Associates has also just completed work in three invitational competitions: Washington Monument, a redesign of the base to meet new security guidelines; Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, a redesign of a section of Hyde Park, London, England; and a redesign of the three block section of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House as a pedestrian enclave. Ms. Balmori is the co-author of Saarinen Garden: A total work of Art; Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony; Trails for the 21st Century; Transitory Gardens; Uprooted Lives and numerous articles. Ms. Balmori holds appointments with the Yale School of Architecture and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Shengling Chang
"Homes Across the Waters: The Construction of Gender and Landscape Within a Trans-Pacific Life" Shenglin Chang received her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Natural Resource Sciences and Landscape Architecture Department, at University of Maryland. Born in Taiwan. She has developed and implemented innovative approaches to public involvement in environmental issues through civic arts, community design participation, and social-political activism. Her 1987 investigation entitled "Women and City" (co-authored with Jing-Sen Chang) pioneered the study of how women use public spaces in Taiwan. Her most recent essay "Transcultural Home Identity Across the Pacific," appears in The Spatial Consequences of Urban Ethnic Encounters (London: Routledge). She has edited and co-authored two books (translated into Chinese) with Randolph T. Hester: Living Landscape: Reading Cultural Landscape Experiences in Taiwan and America and It is Legitimate to Build Community: Dreams and Experiments of Participatory Design.
Terry Clements
"Women in Practice: A time-line"Terry Clements, ASLA (BLA, SUNY CESF; MLA, UC- Berkeley) is an Associate Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She teaches foundations of design, construction and design detailing, and the history of the designed landscape and American cultural landscapes. Her current research examines the relationship of designed landscapes and the built environment to their cultural contexts, as well as the role of women in landscape architecture since 1960. Terry is active on licensure committees for professional licensure of landscape architects and serves on the Executive Board of the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
Madhavi Desai
"The Evolution of the “Bungalow” in the Twentieth Century: Architecture and Gender in the Cultural Landscape of Gujarat, India" Madhavi Desai has an M.Arch from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Ahmedabad, India where she has a joint architectural practice with her partner Miki Desai. She is a senior adjunct faculty at the School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad. She is a co-author of "Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity, India: 1880 to 1980", the Oxford University Press, New Delhi: 1997 and the author of "Traditional House Form of Bohras in Gujarat: Architectural Response to Cultural Ethos", (forth coming). She had a Senior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 1989-1991 and was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT and Harvard University in 1994. She was the Convener of a Symposium on "Gender and the Built Environment" in India in February 2002.
Rebecca Fish Ewan
"The Taming of the Shrub: Poetics of Eros, Women, and Landscape Architecture" Rebecca Fish Ewan is an assistant professor in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University. She is the author of A Land Between: Owens Valley California (2000), an examination of relationships between people and the land that grew out of her graduate studies in landscape architecture at Berkeley. More recently she has been extending the kind of historical narratives presented in the book towards the more poetic and viseral connections between people and place.
Dagmar Grimm-Pretner
"Engendered Spaces" Doctoral degree in Landscape Architecture (1997), University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna; Diploma in Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning (1987), University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna
Dr. Grimm-Pretner is an assistant professor teaching and researching at the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Management since 1993. Research focuses on socio-spatial analysis, urban planning and urban renewal. Important issues within the research are public open spaces in densely populated urban areas and the interaction of usage and design of open spaces. Aspects of migration, gender as well as the needs of different social groups within the topic of urban development are important issues in the research work.
Heidi Hohmann
"Thinking about Theodora: History, Herstory and Gender History in Landscape Architecture" Heidi Hohmann is an assistant professor at Iowa State University. She received her MLA from Harvard University and has worked as a landscape architect and preservation planner in both public and private practice. Her current research projects include a preservation plan for the former Platt National Park and an ecological history of the Minneapolis Park system.
Daniel W. Krall
"Were They Feminists? Men who Mentored Early Women Landscape Architects" Dan Krall is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University where he has taught design and history for almost twenty years. He has a bachelor's degree in history from Manchester College in Indiana, a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from Purdue University and a master's degree in landscape architecture from Cornell. His primary areas of research are landscape preservation and the early history of the landscape architectural profession with a particular focus on women practitioners. He is presently writing a book on the history of the Cornell landscape program for its upcoming centennial celebration in 2004. Professor Krall is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a registered landscape architect in the state of New York.
Laura Lawson
"A Woman Has A Feeling About Dirt… Women and the Civic Garden Campaigns of the Progressive Era" Laura Lawson is an assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She teaches urban design, social/cultural issues in design, and community planning/design. She received her Ph.D. and MLA from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, City Bountiful: A History of Urban Garden Programs in America, 1890s to Present, is due for publication by UC Press in 2004.
Valencia Libby
"Cultivating Mind, Body & Spirit: Educating the 'New Woman' for Careers in Landscape Architecture" Valencia Libby is an associate professor in the Dept. of Landscape Architecture & Horticulture of Temple University. She holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master's degree from the University of Delaware. Formerly a research associate for Winterthur Museum and Gardens in Delaware, Libby specializes in American landscape history and the contributions of women and acts as a consultant for non-profit organizations with public landscapes. She has worked closely with the National Park Service, Colonial Williamsburg, the American Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta and the Southern Garden History Society to promote the preservation and proper use of historic landscapes. Her publications include the essay on Marian Cruger Coffin in Pioneers of American Landscape Design (1999). She is a trustee of the Abington Art Center in Pennsylvania
Kristine Miller
"Morality, Urban Design, and the Women of Times Square" Dr. Kristine Miller is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota¹s Department of Landscape Architecture. She teaches courses in history, research methods, theory, and urban design. Her research focuses on politics and public spaces in New York City. Miller is currently working on a temporary sculpture for the University of Minnesota Engineering Quad titled, "Skirt." .
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Panel Speaker Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, a small office funded in 1953, is dedicated to "greening" urban areas through innovative techniques based on the tried-and-true as well as on research of new technologies. By investigating alternative solutions as part of the planning and design process, the firm thrives on discovering creative solutions to complex problems. Working as a member of a team with architects, the firm seeks to meld the built form into the landscape. This philosophy is expressed in projects such as the three-block urban park of the Provincial Government Complex, the Vancouver Public Library, C.K.Choi Institute of Asian Research, and the Northwest Territories Legislative Building. All projects show strong simple concepts and a vision dedicated to preserving the natural environment. Over the years Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects has developed a wide variety of expertise: in children's playgrounds, beginning with the creative playground at Expo '67 in Montreal; roof gardens and hanging planters, as in the award-winning landscape for the Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C.; native plant communities, such as the firm's project at the Taiga Garden at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario; and with environmental planning and design, as at the C.K. Choi Institute of Asian Research. Much of this expertise also has been incorporated into landscape architecture site design projects for urban plazas, large civic projects, and private residences. Social responsibility and environmental sensitivity guide all of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects projects. The resulting plans and designs are responsive to both the site and the users, and are healthy spaces that bring pleasure throughout the seasons.
Mariko Roberts
Panel Speaker Mariko Roberts has a bachelors (june '71) and masters (june '73) degree in Landscape Architecture from University of California at Berkeley. She is a senior landscape architect/branch chief for Caltrans, and among numerous duties, teaches part time at Kingvale Academy the training place for Caltrans maintenance supervisors and superintendents statewide. Roberts has been with Caltrans for 13 years . Prior, she worked 12 years for State of California Department of Parks and Recreation; as well as a city government and private offices prior to joining state service.
Ilaria Salvadori
"Strolling Down Main Street with Dolores Hayden… A Feminist Perspective on Celebration, Florida" Ilaria Salvadori has a joint masters degree in City and regional Planning and Landscape Architecture from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. Her focus is urban design and social aspects of the design of public space. She is also very much interested in environmental justice issues, people's behavior in space and cultural factors in the construction of place. Her masters thesis discussed the issue of safety in public space and its relationship to current design solutions. She has experience in public participation with children in Northern Italy and California, and has worked on community development projects in the Tenderloin Neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. She currently works as a design manager at the Project for Public Spaces in New York, NY.
Sophie Sauve
"Constructing Gender in Outdoor Public Space" As a Master's student in Landscape Architecture at the University of Manitoba, Sauve has recently begun the research for her practicum entitled "[De]constructing gender[ed] public outdoor space". Her interest in the subject of space and the "other" stems from a multi-disciplinary background in development and environmental studies, as well as a strong desire to contribute to the field of knowledge in landscape architecture. Sauve has studied abroad on various occasions, including a semester in Urban Design at the School of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University, Denmark, and a year in Ecuador, as a part of her undergraduate degree from Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
Sally Schauman
"The Practice of Landscape Architecture: The Gendered Past and Feminist Future" Sally Schauman is a Professor Emerita of the University of Washington and is now teaching in Women’s Studies at Duke University as a Scholar in Residence. She has degrees from Duke, North Carolina State and the University of Michigan. She was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard during the time she was Chief Landscape Architect for the Soil Conservation Service. In 2000 she completed a 3-year multi-disciplinary research project on stream rehabilitation in the Pacific Northwest. She is a Fellow in the ASLA and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture selected her as their Outstanding Educator of the Year in 1999. The College of Design at North Carolina State University awarded her their Distinguished Alumna Award in 1987.
R. Terry Schnadelbach
"Phipps Apartment Houses, Sunnyside Queens, New York: The Landscape Architecture of Marjorie Sewell-Caughtly"For more than thirty years, R. Terry Schnadelbach has been an internationally known landscape architect, educator, ecologist, historian and author. He began his career in architecture, continued in landscape architecture, and has gained reputation as an urban designer, landscape architect, ecologist, historian and preservationist of the natural as well as the built landscape. As a landscape architectural historian, Mr. Schnadelbach has worked on the restoration of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Buffalo park system and Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey. He has restored Phipps Garden Apartments, Sunnyside, New York, a twentieth century landscape of Clarence Stein, Henry Wright and Marjorie S. Cautley. Internationally, Mr. Schnadelbach is the landscape historian of the Angkor civilization at Siem Reap, Cambodia. Mr. Schnadelbach is a free lance writer for American and international professional journals. He has accomplished several manuscripts on the history of the profession: A Century of Centurion Landscape Architects; biographies of Frederick Law Olmsted and Ian McHarg published as part of the book, Fifty Environmental Thinkers ( London, Rutledge 2000); and Ferruccio Vitale: Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, ( New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). Mr. Schnadelbach is a scholar of the twentieth century gardens of Florence, Italy. In June 1999, he co-chaired a symposium on the history of the gardens of the Villa Gamberaia. Mr. Schnadelbach is a graduate in architecture from Louisiana State University and in landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1964 and 1965, he won the American Academy in Rome's coveted Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture. Mr. Schnadelbach has returned on several occasions to the American Academy in Rome as an Artist/Scholar-in-Residence. He has taught landscape architecture, urban design, ecology and real estate development at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Columbia University. At Rhode Island School of Design, he held the Lowthrup Chair of Landscape Architectural History. Currently, R. Terry Schnadelbach is Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida.
Rebecca Solnit
As Eve Said to the Serpent – On Landscape Architecture, Gender and Art Rebecca Solnit is an essayist, critic and activist whose work focuses on issues of environment, landscape and place. Her books include Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era; Savage Dreams: a journey into the landscape wars of the American West; A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland; Wanderlust: a history of walking, Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism,, As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art and, forthcoming in January, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. An occasional journalist for Sierra magazine, she has been on the board of Citizen Alert, Nevada' statewide grassroots environmental organization, since 1996.
Bonj Szczygiel
"Gender and the Rise of Professionalism" Bonj Szczygiel is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Penn State University and Associate Director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History. Her research agenda has contributed historical inquiry within the discipline in two general areas of focus: 19th century urban development as it responded to public health concerns and the role of women in 19-c to 20th-c urban and civic improvement. The first category has included a re-examination of landscape and urban development precepts in our understanding of 19th century American cities as influenced from the newly emerging public health sector and the medical profession. The second topic first developed through an exploration of the 19th-century village improvement movement. Since then, she has taken that information forward, placing it within the sociological framework of the rise of professions in the late 19th century and its attendant domination by men. A forthcoming article in Journal of Urban History explores the culturally mandated roles of men and women regarding civic improvement efforts, of which City Beautiful is the most heralded. Szczygiel was principal investigator and co-developer of "Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space," an international conference held June 1999. Attended by 150 scholars representing 10 countries and 18 academic disciplines it produced examples of new, interdisciplinary scholarship in gender and landscape history. Two tangible products resulted: the Gendered Landscape proceedings published by the Center for Studies in Landscape and a book proposal that is currently being considered by Routledge.
Judith B. Tankard
"Women Take the Lead in Landscape in Landscape" Judith B. Tankard is a historian, writer, lecturer, and editor specializing in landscape history. She received an M.A. degree in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and has taught in the landscape design history program at Radcliffe Seminars, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, since 1987. In 2001, she was awarded a Gold Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for advancement of the history of New England gardens. She writes about historic gardens for Arnoldia, Country Life, Horticulture, Hortus, Old-House Interiors, Pacific Horticulture, and other publications. She is also the founding editor of the Journal of the New England Garden History Society, an annual publication of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. She is coauthor with Alma Gilbert of A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony (Ten Speed Press, 2000), winner of a 2001 Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America. Her book The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman (Sagapress-Abrams, 1997) was a recipient of the 1998 Book Award from the American Horticultural Society. Her other books are Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood (Sutton-Sagapress, 1996) with coauthor Martin A. Wood, and Gertrude Jekyll: A Vision of Garden and Wood (Sagapress-Abrams, 1989) with coauthor Michael R. Van Valkenburgh. Her current projects include books on Arts and Crafts Gardens and American Women Landscape Architects.
Thaisa Way
"Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect to the Garden City Movement" Thaisa Way received a Bachelor of Science in Conservation and Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. Thaisa received a Masters of Architectural History from the University of Virginia with a thesis on Arts and Crafts Gardens in California. This thesis explored the California landscapes and gardens for the houses designed by Greene and Greene, Bernard Maybeck, and Irving Gill. She has owned a landscape design firm, managed a plant nursery, and taught at horticulture and landscape design in a variety of programs. She has worked closely with heirloom gardens and landscapes at the Tubingen Botanical Garden, Monticello, and Cornell Plantations. Thaisa also served as the Historic Landscape Curator and adjunct faculty for the University of Virginia. In this position she was responsible for the historic gardens and lawn. Her primary mission was to expand the educational uses of the historic landscape. Thaisa is currently a Ph.D student at Cornell in Architectural History doing her work in American landscape and architectural history with a minor in Italian Renaissance gardens. Her dissertation topic is “Women Landscape Architects, 1899-1940, Artists of Difference.” She has published reviews of conferences on landscape history and more recently a review of the work of Glenn Murcutt, awarded the 2002 Pritzker Prize. She has recently been awarded an Enid A. Haupt Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution to complete her dissertation research in Washington DC for the coming year.
Diana Webb
M. Diana Webb is with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her current position is Office Leader for Program Integration for the Risk reduction and Environmental Stewardship Division. Ms. Webb has supervised environmental professionals for 20 years and has over 30 years experience in environmental planning and management with the Laboratory, the US Department of Energy, the Bureau of Land Management, and private consulting firms in Washington DC, Los Alamos NM, Moab UT, Denver CO, and Champaign IL. She has led numerous large-scale plans and studies related to resource management, facilities planning, Native American tribal issues, and environmental impact analysis. She has served on Secretarial task forces, authored federal regulations, is a co-author of a recent textbook on environmental assessment, and has an extensive publications list. A landscape architect and regional planner, Ms. Webb received her MLA from the University of Illinois in 1975.
Jane Wolff
"Gertrude Jekyll: Gender, Subjects, and Representation" Jane Wolff is an assistant professor at the Washington University School of Architecture. She was trained as a documentary filmmaker and landscape architect at Harvard. Ms. Wolff’s research deals with methods and media that designers can use to engage and frame the public discussion of complex and disputed landscape. At present she is finishing the Delta Primer, a book designed to educated broad audiences about the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in northern California. Her experience in practice ranges from the design of private gardens to the planning, rehabilitation, and reuse of culturally significant landscapes, including the Presidio of San Francisco. From 2000 to 2002 she was an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture.
Dorothy Wurman
"Elsa Rehmann, Ecological Pioneer- A Patch of Ground" Dorothy Wurman is an Architect and Landscape Architect, with both degrees with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. There she received rigorous training from the masters Louis Kahn and Ian McHarg in the basic principles of design aesthetics and ecology, and she continues to direct her efforts to the successful union of the two disciplines. She has had more than ten years professional office experience, including Hanna/Olin Ltd. in Philadelphia. In addition, she has had many years of academic experience teaching in Architecture and Landscape Architecture programs. Her research interests include investigations into systems of visual logic, and the integration of art and ecology.