Thaisa Way is a landscape historian teaching history, theory, and design. She lectured on the role of women as professionals and practitioners. She has also published her book Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design. Dr. Way’s research has since formed relationships between people and landscape, culture and nature, and between practice and professions. Her teachings have informed people that women have played a major role in the development of landscape architecture from past to present. Within her teachings, Thaisa uses narratives to simplify the complexity of the networks of women that have worked within the landscape community.
Dr. Way's research considers boundaries, edges, and margins of the roles of women within landscape architecture. Considering a boundary is not that in which something stops but it is to understand that a boundary is where something begins. From her research, she has developed an understanding of how women have been involved with different roles of landscape architecture throughout the ages. Whether it is on a board of trusties for the American Society of Landscape Architecture, garden design, or working along side male figures to accomplish a long-term goal. Her research has asked how gender has served as a lens through which design is practiced and the landscape is created and formed.
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