Inspiring "Re: Search" conference & events honor 2025 Oberlander Prize laureate, Mario Schjetnan
More than 300 people registered to explore how today’s practitioners are building and sharing knowledge with the joint quest of revealing, honoring, and integrating cultural systems and lifeways in the face of inevitable change.
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 What's Out There St. Louis and the Missouri River Valley's Cultural Landscapes Guide
Discover the landscape legacy of the bluffs, terraces, and fertile prairie lands along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, which were home to the Mississippian civilization for generations before the land was developed by European settlers in the seventeenth century.
Alcatraz Island
Bears Ears National Monument
Leschi Park
Nikwasi Mound
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.
Expecting a Worst-Case Scenario
In a recent New York Times interview about the administration’s pet projects in Washington, D.C., including the Triumphal Arch, high-end golf course in East Potomac Park, the National Garden of American Heroes in West Potomac Park, and others, Charles A. Birnbaum, Founding President & CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation
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Elizabeth Street Garden
After thirteen years of twists and turns, lower Manhattan’s beloved one-acre oasis is no longer at risk of being destroyed.
at-risk
Dallas City Hall
This exceptional melding of Modernist landscape architecture and a Brutalist building is threatened with demolition.
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.
Halprin Conversation with Charles Birnbaum
Join The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and ABC Stone for a lunch and a guided tour of The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin, The tour, led by Charles Birnbaum (Founder + President of TCLF), will showcase the traveling photographic exhibition about the life and work of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009) .
Examples: Landscape name, designer, stytle, location, etc
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.
M. Paul Friedberg Oral History
As a practitioner and educator, M. Paul Friedberg awakened his profession to urban landscape design with the construction of Riis Park Plaza in New York City in 1965.
Examples: “Dan Kiley” or “Modernist”
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