Marjorie Sewell Cautley
Marjorie Sewell Cautley | |
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Born | Marjorie Sewell 1891 |
Died | 1954 (aged 62–63) |
Education | Cornell University, Landscape Architecture |
Alma mater | Cornell University (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MA) |
Notable work | Sunnyside Gardens; Roosevelt Commons; Radburn |
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Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954) was an American landscape architect who played an influential yet often overlooked part in the conception and development of some early, visionary twentieth-century American communities.
Early life
Cautley's father was
Cautley spent her youth in Asia and the Pacific, where her father was stationed in the Navy, yet was orphaned at twelve, at which point she was sent to live with relatives in Brooklyn. While there, she studied at the Packer Institute for Collegiate Studies. She went on to receive a B. S. degree in landscape architecture in 1917 from Cornell University,[1] and an M.A. in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943.
Career
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She was employed shortly after her graduation from Cornell by the architect Julia Morgan in Alton, Illinois, who was best known for her designs at Hearst Castle. In her work with Morgan and in setting up her own New Jersey practice in 1921, Cautley was exposed to an interest in designing communal spaces. The primary project she worked on with Morgan, during World War I, was a hotel for war workers. Her first project undertaken as an independent practitioner – at only thirty-years old – was a public park in Tenafly, New Jersey, called Roosevelt Common. One of the interesting aspects of this design, which was applied extensively in her later work, was a use of native plants to imbue the landscape with a strong sense of place.
It was perhaps Cautley’s interest in these neighborhood spaces, combined with this strong interest in local species, which caused the architects/planners
After Sunnyside Gardens, Cautley went on to work on the Phipps Garden Apartments in Sunnyside (1930), and Hillside Homes (1935), yet her most well known commission with Stein and Wright was at
After her tenure with Stein and Wright, Cautley accepted the position as landscape consultant to the State of
Publications
- 1931 Building a House in Sweden[3]
- 1935 Garden design; the principles of abstract design as applied to landscape composition[2]
Selected sources
- Birnbaum, Charles A. Pioneers of American Landscape Design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
- Cautley, Marjorie Sewell. Planting at Radburn. Landscape Architecture, vol. 21 (October 1930).
- Martin, Michael David. Returning to Radburn. Landscape Journal, vol. 20, no.1 (2001).
- Rappaport, Nina. Sunnyside Gardens. Metropolis, vol. 10, no. 10 (July 1991).
- Marjorie Sewell Cautley's Honorary Street Sign Acknowledges Her Garden City Landscape Designs
- Allaback, Sarah. Marjorie Sewell Cautley: Landscape Architect for the Motor Age. Library of American Landscape History, 2022.
References
- ^ Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. "Biographical Note, Guide to the Marjorie Sewall Cautley Papers". Cornell University Library. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ^ a b Cautley, Marjorie Sewell (1935). Garden design the principles of abstract design as applied to landscape composition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
- OCLC 3779376.
External links
- Guide to the Marjorie Sewell Cautley Papers, 1847-1995. Collection 4908, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Marjorie Sewell Cautley Archival card catalog. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.