Beatrix Farrand is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Beatrix Farrand as American landscape architect (1872–1959).
Beatrix Farrand was born at New York City in 1872. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at Harvard University and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
She is recorded as landscape architect, architect and gardener.
Among her best-known works are Dumbarton Oaks, The Mount and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
That the work was built in United States shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Beatrix Farrand died in 1959, aged 87. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Dumbarton Oaks
- Notable work: The Mount
- Notable work: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
- Notable work: Marsh Botanical Garden
- Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
- Trained at Harvard University and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
