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  • Saturday, September 21 – Sunday, September 22 – What’s Out There Weekend: Baltimore

    What’s Out There® Weekend (WOTW) Baltimore will bring to light the local character of the city as reflected by its publicly accessible parks, gardens, plazas, cemeteries, neighborhoods, and historic sites. From the city’s founding in the eighteenth century to its twentieth century Inner Harbor development, Baltimore has a rich and significant cultural landscape legacy, shaped by myriad individuals, communities, and practitioners.  For specific details visit https://www.tclf.org/whats-out-there-weekend-baltimore   

    Working in collaboration with myriad local partners, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will make visible and instill value in the places that make the region unique and engage the public to promote their sustained stewardship and interpretation. WOTW Baltimore will engage a large and diverse audience (typically 1,000+), offering two days of free, expert-led tours, encouraging participants to discover the little-known design history of places they may pass every day.

  • Thursday, September 7 – Sunday, September 10 – What’s Out There Weekend: Cleveland

    What’s Out There® Weekend (WOTW) Cleveland will bring to light the local character of the city as reflected by its publicly accessible parks, gardens, plazas, cemeteries, memorials, and neighborhoods. The region boasts more than 24,000 acres of publicly accessible green space, including a National Park, several scenic reservations, seminal landscapes designed by the Olmsted firm, A.D. Taylor, Ernest Bowditch, and others, and exciting contemporary projects enlivening the city’s center. In addition to significant works of landscape architecture, the area possesses a rich diversity of cultural landscapes, including several sites included in the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, such as Lake View and Erie Street Cemeteries.

    Working in collaboration with myriad local partners, The Cultural Landscape Foundation will make visible and instill value in the places that make the region unique, and engage the public to promote their sustained stewardship. WOTW Cleveland will engage a large and diverse audience (typically 1,000+), offering two days of free, expert-led tours of up to 30 sites, encouraging participants to discover the little-known design history of places they may pass every day.  For more information, and registration, visit https://www.tclf.org/whats-out-there-weekend-cleveland

  • Now Through March 15 – Good Books, Good Friends Book Auction

    Now Through March 15 – Good Books, Good Friends Book Auction

    Bidding Now Open for The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) Good Books, Good Friends Silent Auction. The collection includes more than 70 monographs and books by landscape architects, architects, photographers, and allied practitioners with inscriptions, autographs, sketches, watercolors, collages and other additions that make them unique collectors’ items. Participants include Marion Brenner, Jeanne Gang, Walter Hood, Laurie Olin, Kate Orff, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Peter Walker, and dozens of others. There are also rare works by Lawrence Halprin, Elizabeth deForest, Thomas Church, A.E. Bye, James Rose, and more. Bid Now through March 15, 2021. Proceeds benefit TCLF’s education and advocacy initiatives. 

  • Friday, September 18, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Courageous by Design: Landscape Architects Confronting the Climate Crisis in New York City

    The future for landscape architecture is immense. And if landscape architects don’t take the opportunity at this point, while our governments are waffling on climate change, if they don’t learn this climate change inside-out, namely storm-water management, limiting footprints, using plants that don’t need much maintenance or water, if they don’t seize that opportunity, then the landscape architects are asleep under the ground. -Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, TCLF Oral History (2008)

    Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s declaration—a challenge to her fellow landscape architects—is the impetus for a June 2020 symposium about the role of the profession of landscape architecture in addressing climate change. Oberlander is the namesake of the new Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, which was conceived by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) to honor designers who, like Oberlander, are “exceptionally talented, creative, courageous, and visionary.” Addressing climate change has been a core focus of Oberlander’s practice for more than 30 years, and the symposium will serve as the inaugural Oberlander Prize Forum, the first of many fora to be developed in association with the newly established Oberlander Prize.

    Martha Schwartz, an outspoken, iconoclastic, and inventive landscape architect, will deliver the opening keynote. Panels of speakers will address the theoretical – understanding the scope and scale of the climate crisis, especially in New York City – and the practical – including how to navigate bureaucracies to get projects built with environmentally/ecologically sound practices – along with pathways to civic engagement. Ultimately, this is a shared responsibility that will require courage and creativity from the design community, elected officials, governmental agencies, corporations, non-profits, and the public, if we are to confront this problem at a macro and micro scale. This symposium aims to support and inspire those undertaking the challenge.

    This event is currently rescheduled for September 18 from 9 – 5 at Highline Stages, 440 West 15th Street in NYC. A reception on the evening prior to the symposium will offer speakers and attendees a chance to mingle and initiate conversations about the day ahead. As with all events planned during the Covid-19 pandemic, please check with TCLF in case a rescheduling is necessary. Early bird conference ticket $245 ($75 students), and reception ticket is $75. Register at www.tclf.org.

    Governor’s Island
  • Saturday, September 12 – Sunday, September 13 – What’s Out There Weekend in Boston

    Saturday, September 12 – Sunday, September 13 – What’s Out There Weekend in Boston

    The Cultural Landscape Foundation is pleased to announce that What’s Out There Weekend Boston will take place on September 12 and 13, 2020. Boston’s landscape legacy includes myriad parks and plazas, cultural institutions, historic sites and neighborhoods, and the world-renowned Emerald Necklace. Join TCLF for a weekend of free, expert-led tours that will reveal the long history and intricate cultural heritage behind this “City on a Hill.”

    Please visit https://tclf.org/whats-out-there-weekend-boston for more information in the coming months. Tour details and registration information will be available in summer 2020. An online city guide highlighting Boston’s significant cultural landscapes and their designers is also forthcoming. Fingers crossed, people, that by September this opportunity will be available.

  • Thursday, November 14, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm – Icons of Modernism Excursion

    On Thursday, November 14, from 8:30 – 4:30, the Cultural Landscape Foundation will sponsor a curated excursion in Palm Springs, as a prelude to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Conference on Landscape Architecture 2019 in San Diego, California (November 15-19). TCLF’s annual, curated excursions to exceptional examples of landscape architecture and design are eagerly anticipated, extremely popular, and always sell out months in advance.

    The Icons of Modernism excursion, which will begin and end in Palm Springs, will feature an in-depth tour of Sunnylands, the storied 200-acre estate of Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Annenberg, with an A. Quincy Jones-designed home and a new Visitor Center landscape by the Office of James Burnett. Sunnylands, which has received kings, queens, presidents and other notable visitors, is now a center for international diplomacy and has undergone rehabilitation by CMG Landscape, which skillfully addresses sustainability and preservation. Sunnylands staff will offer insights into the site’s transformation from a private to a public facility. The daylong excursion will also include a visit to the gardens at the Charney Residence (below), the embodiment of classic Desert Modernism whose pedigree includes the most famous designers of the day: Wexler & Harrison architects, Arthur Elrod for the interiors, and Eckbo, Royston, & Williams for the landscape design. Details are being finalized on the day’s other destinations. A motor coach will take attendees to each site, and there will be a sumptuous luncheon. 

    Tickets ($1,000, but worth every penny) are available at www.tclf.org.

  • Saturday & Sunday, September 14 & 15 – What’s Out There Weekend: San Francisco Bay Area

    The Cultural Landscape Foundation is pleased to announce that What’s Out There Weekend San Francisco Bay Area will take place on September 14 and 15, 2019. Drawing on the Bay Area’s rich cultural landscape legacy, this weekend of free, expert-led tours will feature dozens of sites, including gardens, campuses, plazas, public parks, and cultural institutions. An online city guide and printed guidebook will be produced in tandem with the Weekend. For a complete itinerary and registration information visit https://tclf.org/whats-out-there-weekend-san-francisco-0

    Tiburon Hillside Garden

  • Sunday, March 24 – Monday, April 1 – Portugal: Historic Gardens and New Urban Landscapes in Porto and Lisbon

    The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s third international excursion on March 24 – April 1 includes iconic gardens and other works of landscape architecture and design, great food and exceptional destinations in Portugal, focusing on sites in Porto and Lisbon. The excursion is being organized and curated by the travel agents behind previous years’ tours to Japan and Madrid. We will be hosted by renowned curators, landscape architects, and artisans, with every detail attended to: accommodations, in-country travel, meals, and other curated experiences. Complete itinerary may be viewed at https://tclf.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/TCLF%20Trip%20to%20Portugal%20March%202019.pdf

    For inquiries and registration, please contact Susan Gullia, managing director at Protravel International, LLC, at Susan.Gullia@protravelinc.com or 212.409.9555.

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  • Thursday, April 12 – Sunday, April 15 – Leading with Landscape IV: North Carolina’s Research Triangle

    In an effort to broaden awareness of the transformation taking place in the public realm across the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will curate a conference and related events on April 12-15, 2018, that will draw an audience that is local, national, and international in scope. In developing these events, TCLF, in partnership with the City of Raleigh, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Museum of Art, and Sasaki, is working to excite and inspire constituents, helping them to understand that the ambitions of their region are worthy of critical analysis, evaluation, and broadcasting.

    Over the past fifteen years TCLF has organized numerous conferences – all of them sold-out events – that examine urban planning and landscape architecture. Most recently, the foundation’s Leading with Landscape conferences in San Antonio (2017), Houston (2016), and Toronto (2015) have taken multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding the balance that exists between thr stewardship of natural and cultural resources and the evolving identities of urban areas. Conference attendees included landscape architects and allied practitioners, urban planners and related municipal officials, stewardship advocates, educators, elected officials, and other interested parties. All three conferences also secured the participation of their city’s mayors, along with key leaders from the public, non-profit, and academic sectors.

    Schedule of Events:

    Thursday Evening, April 12: Opening Reception, North Carolina Museum of Art
    Friday, April 13: Leading with Landscape Conference, James B. Hunt, Jr., Library, North Carolina State University
    Saturday and Sunday April 14-15: What’s Out There Weekend, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill

    Visit https://tclf.org/leading-landscape-iv-north-carolinas-research-triangle for further information regarding the lineup of speakers, the schedule of events, registration information, and more.

  • Friday, October 6 – Sunday, October 8 – What’s Out There Weekend: Indianapolis

    The Cultural Landscape Foundation is pleased to announce the upcoming What’s Out There Weekend: Indianapolis. The Weekend, October 6 – 8, will offer free tours of the city’s renowned modernist landscapes, as well as highlight other regional gems. The tours will be led by experts in history and landscape design, revealing a largely unrecognized legacy of thoughtful landscape architecture and design in the heart of the Midwest.

    What’s Out There Weekend: Indianapolis and its accompanying City Guide are made possible in large part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works and Lilly Endowment Inc., and in partnership with the Indiana Cultural Landscapes Committee of the Indiana Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects (INASLA). The seven-person committee is led by Meg Storrow, FASLA, Chair, and David Gordon, ASLA Trustee, Vice Chair.

    Further details on the Weekend’s schedule and registration will be made available in the coming months at https://tclf.org/whats-out-there-weekend-indianapolis. For more information, or to volunteer for the event, please contact Dena Tasse-Winter at dena@tclf.org.