Mary Mitchell (landscape architect)
Mary Frances Mitchell | |
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Born | 21 August 1923 |
Died | 1988 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Landscape architect |
Mary Frances Mitchell (21 August 1923 – 1988) was a British landscape architect.
Life
Mitchell was born in
She worked in South Africa after the war, and she returned to the UK in the 1950s, where she was employed by Birmingham's City Architect's office.[2] In 1959-60 she was involved in planning the landscape of new land acquired by
The Lee Bank area was designed in 1960 as a single unit by Birmingham's City Architect A.G. Sheppard Fidler.[4] These consisted of 6-8 storey, brick built structures, however, when landscape architect Mitchell was appointed to help in the design, taller twenty storey tower blocks were introduced.[5] The Lee Bank project was approved in stages between 1963 and 1967. It consisted of four 20 storey tower blocks, containing 464 flats, and one twelve storey tower block.[6]
Mitchell became a fellow of the Institute of Landscape Architects in 1963. She established her own business and undertook work in Asia and the Middle East.[2]
Mitchell and Sylvia Crowe published in The Pattern of Landscape in 1988[7] and died in the same year.[1]
Written work
- The Pattern of Landscape. Chichester: Packard Publishing, 1988 (with Sylvia Crowe)[7]
References
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- ^ a b Gardens (en), Parks and. "Mary Mitchell". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ^ "THE VALE, EDGBASTON, Birmingham - 1001483 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
- ^ A.G. Sheppard Fidler, "Lee Bank redevelopment area" - Birmingham House Building Committee minutes, 17 March 1960
- ISBN 0419256407)
- ^ Emporis: Lee Bank Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISBN 978-1-85341-020-8.