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Seminars
The Cultural Landscape Foundation has co-sponsored and/or participated in four major conferences in 2002 in order to educate the public and landscape professionals in the history and importance of cultural landscapes all across America.
Pioneers of American Landscape Design: Rediscovering
a Profession's Legacy
March 15-16, 2002 / Chicago Botanical Garden,
Glencoe, Illinois
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The Pioneers of American Landscape Design seminar was sponsored by the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, in partnership with The Cultural Landscape Foundation. This event brought together several of the contributing authors and experts whose entries are included in the book entitled Pioneers of American Landscape Design. It was an occasion for in-depth analysis of North American landscape history, including many regional examples.
This seminar was a significant portion of the Cultural Landscape Preservation Symposium that also included the premiere of the Jens Jensen Legacy Exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Affairs Center, which featured the Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms Columbus Park module and a tour of Jensen designed landscapes by CLF co-chair, Jo Ann Nathan.
Photo: Symposium speakers Judith Tankard, Noel D. Vernon, Arleyn Levee and Bob Grese.
Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture: Making
Post War Designs Visible
April 5-6, 2002 / Armor
Hall at Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
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Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture: Making Post War Landscapes Visible, the follow-up to the 1995 Conference held at Wave Hill (which became a 1999 Spacemaker Press publication bearing the same title), was held on Friday, April 5 and Saturday April 6, 2002. The conference was cosponsored by the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, The CATALOG of Landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill, The New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Speakers were international in scope and included leaders in historic preservation, landscape architecture, architecture and landscape history.
The first day of the two-day conference was held at Wave Hill in the Bronx, New York and aimed to explore recent innovations and advancements in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Portugal regarding the planning, management, and interpretation of post-war masterworks of landscape architecture. Day two, held at Columbia University, aimed to establish a historic context for dealing with this heritage and increase public support and appreciation. These papers highlighted the shapers of these often "invisible" landscapes by such masters as Hideo Sasaki, Robert Zion, and M. Paul Friedberg. Speakers included historians Marc Trieb and Richard Longstreth along with internationally renowned landscape architects M. Paul Friedberg, Stuart Dawson, Grant Jones, and Laurie Olin among others.
Celebrating America's Historic City Parks: Connecting
the Past with the Future
September 9-10, 2002 / Fort Wayne, Indiana
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We often refer to the parks in densely populated areas like New York City and San Francisco as the "lungs" of the city. But many parks throughout America are important to us because for over a century they have satisfied more than just the need for fresh air. The condition and the original design intent of our parks mirror the values and reflect the soul of any city in which they are found and comment on the men and women who built that city and continue to live there. The Cultural Landscape Foundation partnered with the Friends of the Parks in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the National Park Service to present a symposium entitled Celebrating America's Historic Parks: Connecting the Past with the Future.
This symposium highlighted the work of landscape architects George Kessler and Arthur Shurcliff who worked in Fort Wayne in the early part of the 20th century. National experts discussed the American Park Movement and these two designers' place in landscape architecture history, as well as how to make informed management decisions for our treasured public parks.
Symposium on Cultural Landscapes
September 16-21, 2002 /Santa Barbara, California
A one-week long series of workshops, developed by the Cultural Landscape Foundation working in concert with the Austin Val Verde Foundation with support from Casa del Herrero, was held in Santa Barbara from September 16-21, 2002. Each day an interactive workshop was held at a different nationally significant historic designed landscape in the Santa Barbara area.
The workshops, each designed with equal measures of lecture and field discussion, began on Monday at the Franchesco Francheski House – a former nursery and estate of the important California plantsman. Today, a municipal park, this mobile workshop focused on public-private partnerships and National Register issues for this once forgotten part of California’s horticultural heritage.
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Tuesday’s workshop at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden looked at balancing natural and cultural resources and focused on stewardship issues to preserve this nationally significant landscape and the historic design intent of the only partnership between Lockwood deForest and Beatrix Farrand.
The next workshops were held at three of California’s most important estate landscapes: Casa del Herrero, Lotusland, and Val Verde. At Casa del Hererro, the preservation and management of the gardens surrounding the George Washington Smith designed House were the focus. At Val Verde the focus was on the iconic design by Lockwood deForest. Here issues of preservation maintenance were highlighted including an interactive discussion with three generations of garden management staff. Finally at Lotusland, Madame Ganna Walska’s thematic gardens from her “Blue Garden” to the cactus and succulent gardens provided a rich discourse on interpretive strategies and public visitation. All of these workshops included site directors, key staff, and volunteers.
The week came to a close with a discussion on preserving modern landscape architecture held at David Bremant’s “Art in Motion” collection in the Santa Ynez Valley.
Acknowledgements
These educational opportunities were generously sponsored in part by various non-profit, for-profit, and governmental agencies concerned with the general welfare of America's landscape legacies. Their involvement continues to bring attention to the much-ignored issue of protecting and preserving America's historic landscapes as well as historic structures.
Many talented and well-respected landscape architects, historians, and preservation advocates from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Portugal have dedicated their time and talents to making these seminars a success and deserve recognition for their efforts:
Paul Bennett; Edward M. Bennis; Gregg Bleam, ASLA; Tom Cain; Malcolm Cairns, ASLA; Ethan Carr, ASLA; Dr. Cristina Castel-Branco; Kurt Culbertson, FASLA; Elizabeth Hope Cushing; Stuart Dawson, FASLA; M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA; Virginia Gardner; Robert R. Grese, ASLA; Diane Hoover; Marc Johnson, FASLA; Grant Jones, FASLA; John Kinsella; Arleyn Levee; Richard Longstreth; Michael McClelland; Karen Miller; Patricia O'Donnell, FASLA, AICP; Laurie Olin, FASLA; Don Orban; Catha Grace Rambusch; Donald Richardson, FASLA; Ken Smith, ASLA; Anita Solomon; Meg Storrow; John Swintoski; Judith Tankard; Marc Trieb; Noel Dorsey Vernon, ASLA
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