Brenda Colvin

Brenda Colvin Order of the British Empire CBE (8 June 1897 – 27 January 1981) was a British landscape architect, garden designer, and author. She was appointed in 1973 Order of the British Empire Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Born in Shimal Simal, British India, she was a member of the Colvin family, connected with the British Raj. Quotes For most of the British Isles, tree cover is the normal condition. Any area below the five hundred metre contour that is left to itself and protected from vandalism, grazing or other biotic factors, will revert to forest unless exposed to high gales or salt spray. Chapter 1. Trees in the Countryside by Brenda Colvin Landscape Design with Plants revised, 2nd 2013 9781483100371 Heinemann Newness (published for The Landscape Institute) https://books.google.com/books?id=AajYBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 7–13 (560 pages; quote from page 8; edited by Brian Clouston; 1st edition 1977) Land and Landscape (1948) ... the spread of urban conditions constitutes a terrible threat until we have learned to appreciate the real necessity for National Landscape natural beauty in the surroundings at every stage of human life. We must realize, in all its implications, the truth that Matthew 4:4 man does not live by bread alone, and the full development of intellectual or spiritual life, no less than mere existence, requires contact with nature and natural beauty. ** Land and Landscape John Murray (publishing house) John Murray 1948 https://books.google.com/books?id=8O3wAAAAMAAJ 2 (266 pages; 1st part of quote; last part or quote In our soft Climate of the British Isles island climate too many evergreens become oppressive, and we need a very carefully balanced combination of evergreen and deciduous planting to give us the right degree of comfort, variety and satisfaction. But with a brighter light and greater extremes of temperature, a much higher proportion of evergreen is felt to be right. p. 114; 1st part of quote; last part of quote Compare the appearance and social atmosphere of the average country village having a well-mixed community with those of a modern housing estate composed of all one type of house and garden. Monotony seems to make for squalor or genteel snobbery according to the class of house … p. 210 Quotes about Brenda Colvin Brenda Colvin studied garden design at Swanley Horticultural College 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 Madeline Agar Agar, Geoffrey Jellicoe Jellicoe and others, co-founded the Landscape Institute Institute of Landscape Architects, 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). Barbara Birli, Diedrich Bruns, and Karsten Jorgensen, Chapter 12. Early Landscape Architectural Education in Europe The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Architecture Education 109–120 Routledge (an imprint of Taylor & Francis) 2022 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Routledge_Handbook_of_Landscape_Arch.html?id=It-PEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT124 (handbook edited by Diedrich Bruns and Stefanie Hennecke) External links Colvin, Brenda (landscape architect); Brenda Colvin Collection; 19 boxes; 37 rolls; 1920s-1970s The Museum of English Rural Life (merl.reading.ac.uk) https://merl.reading.ac.uk/collections/brenda-colvin/ Women of the Welfare Landscape (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) The Museum of English Rural Life (merl.reading.ac.uk) https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/01_Introduction.pdf Category:1897 births Category:1981 deaths Category:Architects from the United Kingdom Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Designers from the United Kingdom Category:Non-fiction authors from the United Kingdom Category:Women authors from the United Kingdom Category:Women born in the 19th century