TCLF in the News

July 23, 2010
When They're Gone... They're Gone
The Huffington Post

Overdevelopment is doing to cultural landscapes what excessive plastic surgery has done to... well, I won't name names.

July 22, 2010
Preserving modernism in Boston: making the case
Braniac Blog - This Land

Historic preservation around these parts has always had to do with red bricks, colonial or Victorian era sites.

July 19, 2010
Heroes of Horticulture Original Photography Exhibit
Digital Landscaping

“Heroes of Horticulture” Traveling Exhibition from the George Eastman House at The Bascom (presenter and beneficiary of Mountains in Bloom).

July 11, 2010
MFA 1, Gardner 0
Braniac Blog - Boston Globe

Charles Birnbaum, president of the Washington-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, recently weighed in on two Boston museum expansions--those of the MFA and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

July 1, 2010
Comment> Museum Stomping Grounds
The Architect's Newspaper

Flush economic times in the past decade brought ambitious museum expansions and expansion plans, while the recent economic downturn has led to the downscaling of some plans and a pause for others.

June 24, 2010
Landscape expert: MFA did it right, Gardner museum didn't
Braniac Blog - Boston Globe

Charles Birnbaum, the president of the Washington-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, recently weighed in on two Boston museum expansions--those of the "New" MFA and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

June 22, 2010
Is Landscape Architecture Just "Parsley Around the Roast" of Architecture?
The Huffington Post

The pioneering Modernist landscape architect Thomas Church once wittily characterized the relationship and perception of landscape architecture to architecture as "parsley around the roast" -- implying second-class status for both landscape architecture and parsley.

June 22, 2010
When Museums Expand: A Critic Cites Yet Another Sin
ARTSJOURNAL weblog

Here's another reason to question the explosion in museum expansions over the last few decades: Along with the sins they've committed in building architecture that isn't well-suited to the display of art and the high costs they forgot to account for, etc., museums have shown a distinct lack of sensitivity to the landscape. 

Birnbaum Blogs: Shouldn’t a Museum’s Collection Include its Designed Landscapes?

 

 

June 18, 2010
Ohio River Bridges Project shouldn't protect historic Drumanard home, group says
Courier-Journal

A group opposing tolls as part of the Ohio River Bridges Project has asked a state preservation agency to remove a controversial estate in eastern Jefferson County from the National Register of Historic Places -- a move it claims could save hundreds of millions of dollars.

June 3, 2010
Great New Landscapes
Architecture Week

The Pioneers of American Landscape Design Oral History Series is a small but growing collection of in-depth interviews with prominent American landscape architects.