American Moderns - Landscape and National Identity

Geoffrey Jellicoe once claimed that ‘All man-made environment is a projection of our psyche, whether individual or collective’. This lecture will explore how designers from different parts of the Americas - the Brazilian Roberto Burle Marx, the Mexican Luis Barragan and the American Thomas Church - used gardens and landscapes to shape and promote ideas of national identity. Wary of the European traditions of their country’s former colonial rulers, these designers looked to indigenous flora, building materials, architecture, agricultural methods, cultural traditions and mythologies to establish distinct, new approaches which reflect the national and local character of their sites.
Gardens Trust talk presented by writer and garden historian Katie Campbell.

Time: 10:00 GMT

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