TCLF 2014 Year in Review
As the internationally influential architecture-focused ArchDaily recently wrote, 2014 was "A great year for Landscape Architecture" and TCLF was a major catalyst. You can help make 2015 even better by supporting TCLF's award winning programs including What's Out There, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, and many others. 
Thanks to your support in 2014, we can report that TCLF organized three What’s Out There Weekends with complementary guidebooks; launched the first Web-based What's Out There City Guide (for Denver); held 43 Garden Dialogues across the US and Canada; launched a Pioneers Oral History with Richard Haag; published a new volume in the Modern Landscapes: Transition and Transformation series; saw The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley exhibition receive ASLA's Communication Award of Excellence and travel to the National Building Museum and four other venues (it’s booked into 2017 including the NY and Dallas Centers for Architecture in 2015); had the most successful Landslide launch in our history; held Prosecco and Prose book signing events for nine authors; provided technical assistance for The Breakers in Newport, RI, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, NY, and others; and more.
What's Out There Weekend Los Angeles, photo by Matthew Traucht
What’s Out There®
(WOT), the free, searchable Web feature of the nation’s designed landscape legacy now houses more than 1,700 entries, 10,000 images and 900 designer profiles; and thanks to two National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grants, and partnerships with faculty and students at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, Texas A&M and the University of Texas, work continues on What’s Out There Virginia and Texas – each will add 150 sites. The fifth year of What’s Out There Weekends drew thousands of participants in Miami, Richmond, VA and Los Angeles, and succeeded with support from National Sponsor Bartlett Tree Experts, more than two-dozen other corporate and private supporters, and many local partners and volunteers. For 2015, Weekends are being planned for Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Newport, RI, and Toronto, Canada with such partners as the Colorado ASLA Chapter, the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning, Ryerson University in Toronto and Design Workshop.
Garden Dialogues, Northern Virginia, photo by Suzanne GarzaGarden Dialogues
Now in its third year, this program answers the question – how are great gardens created? The Dialogues are intimate gatherings where participants hear from the garden owners and their designers – leaders in the field – about the secrets to creating distinct gardens. We held 41 Dialogues in Palm Beach, FL, Sonoma, CA, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX, the Hamptons, NY, Vancouver, BC and others – with many selling out weeks in advance. The Dialogues were made possible by the continued support of National Sponsor Seibert & Rice. We are solidifying plans for 2015.
Symposia and Conferences
Vital to advancing TCLF’s mission of “stewardship through education," public lectures focus on timely, engaging content. Registration opened this fall for the third Bridging the Nature-Culture Divide conference, which will take place at San Francisco’s Presidio on January 23, 2015, followed by an international conference and related events May 22, 2015 in Toronto, the third in TCLF’s Second Wave of Modernism series. Unlike the first two, this program will focus solely on Toronto, where visionary landscape architecture-led urban planning along its waterfront is garnering much attention.
Pioneers of American Landscape Design® Oral History Series
Our on-going series of free, Web-based videos about significant practitioners now includes the life and work of Seattle-based Richard Haag. An oral history with Nicholas Quennell is nearing completion and one is underway with Harriet Pattison. There’s also an extended interview with landscape architect Peter Walker now in edits.
Landslide
Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum of Outdoor Sculpture, photo
by Liz KuballOur annual thematic compendium of threatened and at-risk landscapes, continues to be one of TCLF’s most high profile and effective projects. This year’s theme “art and the landscape” focused on land-based art, from ancient petroglyphs to contemporary installations. In addition, five other Landslide sites were saved in 2014, including the Richard Haag-designed Battelle Memorial in Seattle, while an RFP was issued for the preservation of the Lawrence Halprin-designed Heritage Park in Ft. Worth, TX. Presenting Sponsor The Davey Tree Expert Company, Media Partner Landscape Architecture Magazine, and Educational Partner, ASLA, helped make Landslide possible.
Publications
TCLF’s award-winning series with Princeton Architectural Press, Modern Landscapes: Transition and Transformation, focuses on mid-century works that have undergone marked transformation. The second volume examines the recently restored Simonds and Simonds-designed Mellon Square in Pittsburgh, PA.
Media Coverage in 2014 was substantial with exposure social and traditional media including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post and others; art and design media outlets Architectural Record, Architect’s Newspaper, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Tree Hugger and more; internationally in World Landscape Architecture, Australian Garden History, and Spain’s Paisea, plus Huffington Post features. Social media followers more than doubled.
The Sally Boasberg Founder's Fellowship, created in the memory of founding Board Member Sally Boasberg, had as its third fellow, Shannon Leahy, a recent graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. And, Barrett Doherty was the inaugural SWA Cultural Landscape Fellow, working in Houston and Dallas; and Design Workshop sponsored interns at the University of Colorado to develop What’s Out There Denver Guide content.