THIS WOMAN’S WORK

MIEN RUYS: THE MOTHER OF MODERNIST GARDENS

MIMI ZEIGER

BY JULIA CRAWFORD; LONDON: LUND HUMPHRIES, 2023; 144 PAGES, $79.99. REVIEWED BY ROSETTA S. ELKIN, ASLA The historic role of women’s labor and creativity is rarely appreciated due to the confusion between landscape architecture and gardening. This statement leads to a longstanding question seductively obscured in the difference between gardening and gardens. Gardening evokes effort, and gardens conjure respite. As our profession challenges societal invisibility and histories are inescapably revised, it is time to amend the perception of gardening as a singularly gendered, domestic endeavor that falls outside of architectural history. Enter Mien Ruys, a Dutch landscape architect who gardened to experiment with the soils, waters, and most of all the plants of the near-wild polder landscape. Her life and practice show how a garden of one’s own can inform…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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