Todd Haiman Landscape Design

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GENDER IN DESIGN

Does it matter what gender a landscape designer is? It shouldn't matter in any other field and in the end Man or Woman, there are only good, fair and bad designers.(architects, garden designer, graphic designer, etc.) Would the work be more collaborative? Less ego-driven?

This article in the Guardian confronts the issue.

 Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan, designed by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher with Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu.  photo: the guardian

If women built cities, what would our urban landscape look like?

"The number of women in UK architecture firms is falling, and many urbanists are worried by the ‘very, very male-dominated’ worlds of planning and construction. So how would cities differ if women designed them?"