"Brenda Colvin studied garden design at 1919–1920; set up her own practice in 1922; designed many gardens and estates, school grounds, university campus, cemeteries, also industrial landscapes, e.g. around power stations, and she published several books, including Land and Landscape ... When Colvin, together with , and others, co-founded the , she was a driving force in defining educational requirements. It seems, often Colvin first came up with the ideas (Annabel Downs, personal communication 2021). Colvin had travelled in the USA in 1931 and what she saw hugely influenced her later thinking (Gibson 2011, p. 35)."
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Barbara Birli, Diedrich Bruns, and Karsten Jorgensen, (handbook edited by Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke)
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Brenda Colvin
(8 June 1897 – 27 January 1981) was a British , garden designer, and author. She was appointed in 1973 (CBE). Born in , , she was a member of the , connected with the .
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