Honoring the Legacy of Kongjian Yu
Watch Now: This seven-minute-long video, presented at Soak it Up: Los Angeles, CA, honors the late landscape architect—global champion of the “sponge cities” concept and 2023 winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
connects people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.
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Oberlander Prize
The biennial Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize includes a $100,000 award and two years of public engagement activities.
PLACES: What's Out There
This searchable database raises public awareness of the rich diversity and interconnectedness of our shared landscape heritage.
Check Out the Newly Expanded Chicago What’s Out There Cultural Landscapes Guide
Discover the landscape legacy of dozens of sites, their histories and designers, in this richly illustrated and engaging guide.
Bicentennial Park - Nature Garden
Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza
Oneida Bungalow Court
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
STEWARDSHIP: Landslide
The goal of Landslide is to draw immediate and lasting attention to threatened landscapes and unique features, and to encourage informed, community-based stewardship decisions.
Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds
Thirteen sites of significant protests in U.S. history where the protests are at risk of fading from public memory, or worse, being forgotten.
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Embarcadero Plaza
A Lawrence Halprin masterwork (and skateboarders' paradise) is threatened with demolition.
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Gas Works Park
Reflecting Richard Haag’s innovative approach to landscape architecture, this park is threatened by plans to extensively remove piping, catwalks, ladders, and support systems from the site’s prominent "Cracking Towers."
EVENTS: Lectures, Exhibitions, Tours
TCLF hosts events across the United States including excursions, dialogues, and tours that highlight the nation's rich and diverse landscape heritage.
2025 Landslide in Action Videos
Watch Now—Learn from landscape architects, historians, artists, and other experts in this series of eight webinar videos and discover historic sites of protest explored in TCLF’s thematic report, Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds.
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Advanced SearchPEOPLE: Designers & Stewards
Pioneers of American Landscape Design chronicles the lives and careers of those who have designed our gardens, parks, streets, campuses, cemeteries, suburbs, and the innumerable other environments in which we live.
Remembering Catherine M. Howett
Friend, colleague, and TCLF board member Susan Turner offers a moving tribute to this professor, scholar, and renaissance woman.
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