Shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project

An indispensable reference work that may also be read simply for pleasure of discovery.

Publisher: 
University of Virginia Press, 2009

Just Wild about Larry

With the recent posting of the Lawrence Halprin oral history module, the latest in TCLF’s ongoing Pioneers of American Landscape Design series, we have received several interesting unsolicited submissions that are “under the radar” in the context of Halprin’s most celebrated works of landscape architecture.

Pettygrove

Named for Francis W. Pettygrove, one of the early owners and developers of the Portland “townsite,” Pettygrove Park is part of the Portland Open Space Sequence, designed by Lawrence Halprin + Associates, Satoru Nishita, partner-in-charge, in the 1960s. The most park-like space in the sequence, the landscape is composed of earth mounds, expanses of lawn, trees, native stone walls and steps, simple asphalt walks, wooden benches, and original globe lighting.

Charles Birnbaum Interview - HomeGrown episode from Jan 31, 2010 on WFPL

Article Date: 
Feb 1 2010
Article Source: 
WFPL 89.3FM, Louisville, KY

HomeGrown [a weekly radio talk show on WFPL Louisville] dips into history this week with a discussion on preserving our historical and cultural landscapes – and the preservation of some of the nation’s great estate homes and gardens. Charles Birnbaum of the Cultural Landscape Foundation discusses the importance of preserving community properties, such as Louisville’s Olmsted Parks.  To hear the full interview with Charles click HERE

Asticou Azalea Gardens

Designed by Charles K. Savage, owner of the Asticou Inn and designer of the gardens at Thuya Lodge, it was made poissbile through funds provided by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and plants garnered from Beatrix Farrand’s dismantled Reef Point Gardens including two of the oldest specimens in the garden, a weeping hemlock just north of the Main Bridge and an Alberta spruce near the North Bridge. The garden was constructed between 1956 and 1957.

Looking Ahead at the Cooper-Hewitt

Bill Moggridge’s appointment as director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the New York-based Smithsonian Institution museum, received extensive coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere.

Crystal Lake Park

The Urbana Park District was formed in 1907. The first park that was designed and laid out under this new authority was Crystal Lake Park. Measuring just over 90 acres, including nearly 60 sylvan acres known as Busey Woods, this picturesque landscape primarily follows the alignment and contours of the Saline Branch of Crystal Lake – largely the result of a 1906 dredging project that led to the present-day water feature.

Thuya Gardens

Thuya Lodge and Garden in Northeast Harbor, Maine, served as the hilltop summer home of Boston landscape gardener and landscape engineer, Joseph Henry Curtis. The gardens, developed from 1880 to 1928, are nestled within 200 acres of surrounding woodland. Asticou Terraces, a series of steps and resting terraces, which Curtis built up the steep hillside, provide viewing opportunities back to Northeast Harbor.

Robert W. Griffith

Ex-Officio, Legal Counsel

Robert Griffith is a partner in the Louisville, Kentucky, office of Stites & Harbison, PLLC a law firm with over 260 lawyers in offices located throughout the southeast. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Centre College, a Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky. Mr. Griffith began his career in the New York offices of White & Case. He is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Kentucky Superlawyers, and Chambers USA’s Best Lawyers for Business.

Location: 
Louisville, KY

Melanie Macchio

Senior Project Manager

Melanie Macchio is Senior Project Manager for The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Prior to joining TCLF,  she worked for private preservation firms in La Jolla, California, and, more recently, Washington, D.C. She has managed several large-scale historic resource survey projects including the Uptown San Diego Historic Resources Survey and the Purcellville, Virginia, National Historic District Survey, as well as intensive multiple property surveys for the City of Riverside, California. Ms.

Location: 
Washington, DC
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