Word: farrands
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...trying to expand one, the University has aroused fears that it will destroy the other--and since the gardens possibly in peril were designed by famous American designer Beatrix Farrand, this construction plan has become a national concern...
...prospect has mobilized landscape architects, Farrand scholars and neighbors to protect the site from renovation...
...What you have to understand is that, for landscape architects, Dumbarton Oaks is a very sacred place--a sacred landscape," explains Clarissa Rowe, a Boston architect and president of Historic Massachusetts Inc., who grew up playing in Dumbarton Oak's Farrand gardens...
Rowe says that even when she was young, the garden inspired her. Since then, she has learned more about Farrand's work and believes strongly in its preservation...
...Farrand, who designed the garden when the site was still privately owned in the 1920s and '30s, was the only female founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architecture...