Crowe, Dame Sylvia

Crowe, Dame Sylvia
▪ 1998

      British landscape architect who created designs for gardens at nuclear power stations, colleges, churchyards, reservoirs, office buildings, and new towns and wrote a number of books on the subject; she was created C.B.E. in 1967 and advanced to D.B.E. in 1973 (b. Sept. 15, 1901—d. June 30, 1997).

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