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Anecdotes and images from Johnson’s childhood give insight into her later career as a landscape architect.

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Johnson credits her Wellesley experience and the “wonderful things” she saw on her bicycle trip in Europe with instilling an appreciation of landscape.

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While working at a nursery, Johnson’s chance meeting with students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design led to her enrolling in the program.

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After a year of being the only woman student in the Graduate School of Design’s landscape program, several others joined Johnson in the program.

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After graduation, Johnson went to work at The Architects Collaborative (TAC), a firm she describes as “pretty nifty for women.”

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Several early projects lead to Johnson working on the American Exposition of 1967, an assignment she describes in detail.

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Johnson’s description of two of her projects highlights challenges she found in designing landscapes for energy projects.

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Johnson shares recollections of hiring an interesting group of “less than perfectly trained architects” during the early years of her firm.

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Like her other trips, Johnson’s trip to Kenya helped her appreciate the physical landscape and ways people adapt and fit into it.

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Johnson’s recollection of taking the exam for landscape architects in New York includes an amusing anecdote about a fellow participant.

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Initially one of only a few women in the profession, Johnson recounts experiences with the American Society of Landscape Architects.

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Learn what Johnson loves about the profession and her “opportunities for expression in three-dimensions.”

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Since her childhood, Johnson has been fascinated with the connection between environment and culture.

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Johnson is particularly fond of projects in which “I dream, I think, it happens.” These projects realize a connection with community that is central to her work.

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Project examples illustrate Johnson’s description of what she considers in making decisions.

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Johnson’s upbringing, work experience, studies, and love of her own garden contribute to her hands-on use of plant material in her designs.

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Learn why Johnson thinks there will be “tremendous opportunity” for landscape architects, both men and women.

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After citing some influential individuals, Johnson concludes that she soaked up things wherever she could find them.

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Connections to her personal life make Kennedy Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of Johnson’s favorite landscapes.

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Walking through Kennedy Park, Johnson stops to celebrate a “wonderful tree” and relates the reasons she wanted to plant beech trees.

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Johnson explains how she intended Kennedy Park to function in relation to its surrounds.

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As she walks around Lechmere Canal Park, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, Johnson explains what her design added to the canal and basin.

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Johnson’s design has transformed the formerly polluted sites along the Mystic River from Medford to Everett, Massachusetts, into places of recreation.

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Johnson credits the Mystic Reservation with being “not only a horticultural success, but also a social and public use success.”

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Johnson’s Boston design created a linear park between the water and a housing development built on what had been a drug dealer’s heaven.

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Against views of Harbor Point, South Boston, Massachusetts, Johnson describes how “we’re all together on this.”

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Johnson explains how the community and paintings of Fitz Hugh Lane helped her come up with her design for Harbor Point.

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As she walks along the water’s edge of Boston Harbor, Johnson points out references to fishing in her design.