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  • Thursday, October 14, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Envisioning Landscapes: The Transformative Landscapes of OJB, Online

    Join James Burnett, FASLA, founding partner of OJB Landscape Architecture, as he shares selected projects from the firm’s first monograph, published by Monacelli. Winner of the 2020 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum, OJB is known for work that affirms the public realm and its power to transform. This online program on October 14 at 2 is sponsored by The Garden Conservancy, and is $40. including a copy of the book, for nonmembers. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/store/virtual-talk-book-10-14-21-envisioning-landscapes-the-transformative-environments-of-ojb

    With compelling imagery, Jim Burnett will share how seminal projects from the firm’s practice have transformed their communities and continue to surprise and delight visitors.

    Featured projects include:

    • Sunnylands Center and Garden: A cultural destination in Southern California that celebrates its arid setting and expresses the surprising vibrancy of the California desert ecosystem.
    • Klyde Warren Park: Created over one of the busiest freeways in Dallas, this park has restored connections between city districts and established a new public-private partnership model for transforming cities.
    • Hall Winery: A blend of modern and traditional, the project transforms an industrial wine-making campus of outdated Butler buildings into a welcoming garden oasis.
    • Myriad Botanical Gardens: The renovation and expansion of this public park is part of a larger connected initiative to return open space to a revitalized, walkable downtown in Oklahoma City, OK.

  • Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5 – Second Wave of Modernism IV: Making Space within Place Conference

    Although Dallas, Texas, is the ninth largest city in the United States, the number of residents in the Dallas-Fort Worth area increased more than in any other metropolitan area in the nation from 2017 to 2018, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. To explore the choices that will shape Dallas’ future, and to initiate and inspire broad community-based participation in decision-making, The Cultural Landscape Foundation will curate a conference and surrounding events October 3-5, 2019.

    Second Wave of Modernism IV: Making Space within Place will highlight the city’s leadership with projects that balance design with natural and cultural values and the imperative to deal with climate change. It will also showcase the city’s public-private initiatives and recent innovations in creative management land stewardship.

    Introductory presentations (by Peter Walker, Peter Ker Walker, and James Burnett) will illuminate the role that landscape architects have played in laying the foundation for today’s planning and design work by exploring several iconic projects completed in the Dallas Arts District over the past 35 years. A morning panel, titled “Transforming the Downtown Core,” will examine four projects (by Field Operations, Hargreaves Associates, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects and SWA) that are currently in the design or construction phase in downtown Dallas, revealing how a public-private partnership was able to facilitate the development of these priority parks in the urban core. The afternoon panel, “Transforming and Connecting the City,” will be a forward-looking discussion of larger-scale projects currently underway (i.e., in the planning, design, or execution phase) that aim to balance, leverage, and steward both natural and cultural resources. The closing panel, featuring leaders in landscape architecture, planning, journalism, patronage, and stewardship, will reflect on the day’s presentations.

    For complete information and schedule, visit www.tclf.org