Women of steel and stone : 22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape designers
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- ISBN: 9781613745083
- ISBN: 1613745087
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Physical Description:
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264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2014]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Architects. Louise Bethune: paving the way ; Anna Wagner Keichline: brick by brick ; Julia Morgan: she built a castle ; Marion Mahony Griffin: Frank's right-hand man ; Norma Merrick Sklarek: the Rosa Parks of architecture ; Denise Scott Brown: husband-and-wife design team ; Natalie de Blois: builder of buildings ; Zaha Hadid: contemporary architecture star ; Marilyn Jordan Taylor: building the future -- Engineers. Emily Warren Roebling: she built the bridge ; Lillian Moller Gilbreth: the real Cheaper by the Dozen ; Kate Gleason: concrete pioneer ; Margaret Ingels: ruler of the slide rule ; Ruth Gordon Schnapp: making buildings safe ; Judith Nitsch: engineering girl ; Aine Brazil: building towers -- Landscape architects. Beatrix Farrand: planting seeds ; Ellen Biddle Shipman: dean of American Landscape Architecture ; Marian Cruger Coffin: covered all grounds ; Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: the art of the possible ; Carol R. Johnson: nature and culture ; Martha Schwartz: modern art and landscape. |
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