CONTENTS

Introduction

PART ONE: 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

PART TWO: 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

PART THREE : 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

Acknowledgments

Resources

Notes

Bibliography

Index