Mary D. Gordon
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT1926 - 2021
“My work is different than most, I work with organic spaces. If you want to capture some of the real qualities of nature you can’t do it with a compass, t-square and triangle. The waves on the shore are not like that… or the hills and valleys or the mountains. They can’t be!”
Mary Gordon, age 93
Palo Alto, CA
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA
Designed and developed by Elisa Alfonso, granddaughter of Mary Gordon
Written content by Ruth Gordon, daughter of Mary Gordon
Updated in April 2026