Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Geraldine Knight Scott (16 July 1904-2 August 1989) was a prominent California landscape architect and a pioneering woman in the field. She taught landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1950s and '60s. She was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, was a founding member of the California Horticultural Society, and received various awards and honors.After studying landscape architecture at Berkeley from 1922 to 1926 and Cornell University from 1926 to 1928, Geraldine Knight began her professional career in Southern California in the office of A.E. Hanson. She spent nearly two years in Europe studying the gardens there from 1930 to 1932, then returned to Berkeley, where she studied painting with Chiura Obata. From 1933 to 1939 she practiced landscape architecture in Marin County. In 1939 she married Los Angeles writer Mellier G. Scott, with whom she shared a strong interest in urban and regional planning issues. After a trip to view housing projects in Europe, they returned to Los Angeles and created a Citizens' Housing Council to promote public housing. They learned about the Telesis group that had formed in Northern California and started a "Telesis South" group "to try to think through better ways of planning for the future." This group organized an exhibition to promote and demonstrate their ideas at the Los Angeles County Museum, as the San Francisco group had done at the San Francisco Museum of Art.In 1941 the Scotts moved to San Jose, California, and Geraldine Knight Scott practiced landscape architecture out of San Jose, then Palo Alto from 1947 to 1952. She began teaching in the Berkeley Department of Landscape Architecture intermittently from 1949 to 1958 and continuously from 1958 to 1969. They moved to Berkeley in 1952, where she remained until her death in 1989. She served on the City of Berkeley design review board, arts commission, and architect selection committee. At the university, she developed a new course on planting design, established a traveling fellowship program for landscape architecture students, and created an endowment for research in the history of landscape architecture, which included support for maintaining and preserving the Environmental Design Archives.Notable projects in which she held important landscape design roles include the Pacific House at the Golden Gate International Exposition, the Daphne Funeral Home in San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California, and Blake Garden (Kensington, California).. }
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- Geraldine_Knight_Scott abstract "Geraldine Knight Scott (16 July 1904-2 August 1989) was a prominent California landscape architect and a pioneering woman in the field. She taught landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1950s and '60s. She was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, was a founding member of the California Horticultural Society, and received various awards and honors.After studying landscape architecture at Berkeley from 1922 to 1926 and Cornell University from 1926 to 1928, Geraldine Knight began her professional career in Southern California in the office of A.E. Hanson. She spent nearly two years in Europe studying the gardens there from 1930 to 1932, then returned to Berkeley, where she studied painting with Chiura Obata. From 1933 to 1939 she practiced landscape architecture in Marin County. In 1939 she married Los Angeles writer Mellier G. Scott, with whom she shared a strong interest in urban and regional planning issues. After a trip to view housing projects in Europe, they returned to Los Angeles and created a Citizens' Housing Council to promote public housing. They learned about the Telesis group that had formed in Northern California and started a "Telesis South" group "to try to think through better ways of planning for the future." This group organized an exhibition to promote and demonstrate their ideas at the Los Angeles County Museum, as the San Francisco group had done at the San Francisco Museum of Art.In 1941 the Scotts moved to San Jose, California, and Geraldine Knight Scott practiced landscape architecture out of San Jose, then Palo Alto from 1947 to 1952. She began teaching in the Berkeley Department of Landscape Architecture intermittently from 1949 to 1958 and continuously from 1958 to 1969. They moved to Berkeley in 1952, where she remained until her death in 1989. She served on the City of Berkeley design review board, arts commission, and architect selection committee. At the university, she developed a new course on planting design, established a traveling fellowship program for landscape architecture students, and created an endowment for research in the history of landscape architecture, which included support for maintaining and preserving the Environmental Design Archives.Notable projects in which she held important landscape design roles include the Pacific House at the Golden Gate International Exposition, the Daphne Funeral Home in San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California, and Blake Garden (Kensington, California).".