Soak It Up: Combating Climate Change with Landscape Architecture - Live Now
The “sponge cities” concept for addressing climate change accelerated urban flooding championed by the Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu, the most recent winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, is the inspiration for Soak It Up.
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 What’s Out There Guide to African American Cultural Landscapes
Discover dozens of sites, their histories and designers, in this richly-illustrated and engaging guide about the unique and culturally influential contributions of the African American community to the country.
Cahokia Mounds
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Ghirardelli Square
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
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 - Justin Herman Plaza
A Lawrence Halprin masterwork (and skateboarders' paradise) is threatened with demolition.
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Sunset Magazine Headquarters
Originally part of a land grant to Don José Arguello, this seven-acre property served as the Sunset magazine headquarters from 1951 to 2015.
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.
Introducing Landslide In Action: Demonstration Grounds
Some of the most debated issues today—anti-war activism, civil rights, gay rights, women’s rights...
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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.
It Takes One - Janice Ross
Dancer Anna Halprin’s biographer offers fascinating insights about how she and her landscape architect husband, Larry, together explored how bodies move through space.
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