Tag: Marjorie Sewell Cautley

(1891–1954) American landscape architect who played an influential part in the conception and development of some early, visionary twentieth-century American communities like Radburn N.J.

Inevitable

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Edward Burtynsky, Los Angeles (2003)

 

When landscapes are designed to look as if they are naturally created it entitles them to be inevitable, beyond our control. This is when landscpes function like an ideology-they naturalize cultural acts. For some geographers and historians landscapes do not simply signify or symbolize power relations, they are powerful agents in the practice of power.

Susan Herrington, On Landscapes (2009)

Clarence Stein and Henry Wright + Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Radburn (1929)

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