Three perspectives on women in the field of landscape architecture. Thaisa Way, Program Director, Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., says landscape architecture in the early 20th century coincided with the emergence of the Progressive Era as a force. The social justice component of landscape architecture is pronounced among women practitioners because of the “authority women have in the domestic realm,” which translates into design done in the public realm. Alison Hirsch, Director, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, Associate Professor, University of Southern California, School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, discusses the professional and personal challenges: women are the majority of landscape architecture students, but in the minority of landscape architecture leadership; for professional women like her having children is an additional challenge. Sara Zewde, founding principal, Zewde Studio, New York, N.Y., says it ’is a “psychological project” for a Black woman to enter into the profession, given the impediments Black women face. She concludes that land is power and shaping land is powerful.
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