Mary Frances Mitchell, (1923–1988), landscape architect
After time spent in South Africa, in the 1950s Mary Mitchell moved to Birmingham where she joined the city architect’s department before opening her own private landscape design practice. In 1963 Mitchell became a fellow of the Institute of Landscape Architects. Her work brought her to Asia and the Middle East in the late 1960s.
In the 1960s Mitchell commissioned sculptor John Bridgeman (1916-2004) to create a single or a series of abstract sculptures in concrete, for a Birmingham City Council playground, on Curtis Gardens, on a housing estate on Fox Hollies Road in the Acocks Green district of Birmingham, England.
Curtis Gardens, Fox Hollies Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham
Bildquelle:
Arvid Bengtsson: Environmental Planning for Children’s Play, Praeger Publishers New York, 1970, pp. 104, 148-149.
Marguerite Rouard, Jacques Simon: Espaces de jeux : de la boîte à sable au terrain d’aventure, D. Vincent, Paris 1976, pp. 68-71.
Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 165, AA informations, Décembre 1972- Janvier 1973
https://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/person/1986
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County Borough of Blackburn playgrounds (AA 165)
Chamberlain Gardens Birmingham
Nuneaton Play Park, England
Nuneaton Play Park, England
St. Aidan’s Avenue, Blackburn UK 1970
Queen’s Park, Blackburn UK 1970
Markfield Playground, Haringey London, 1966
Markfield Playground, Haringey