The Cultural Landscape Foundation now Accepting Applications for Inaugural SWA Group Cultural Landscape Fellowship
Media Contact: Nord Wennerstrom | T: 202.255.7076 | E: nord@tclf.org
SWA Group Sponsors Full Time, Paid Position
SWA Fellow will work on Research, Writing and Photography for What’s Out There Texas, part of What’s Out There database of the nation’s designed landscape legacy
Washington, DC (February 26, 2014) – The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is now accepting applications for the inaugural SWA Group Cultural Landscape Fellowship. The Fellow will work in SWA Group’s Dallas and Houston offices during the summer of 2014 for approximately four to five weeks per office. The full time, paid position includes housing, all of which is sponsored by the SWA Group. This position will focus on research, writing and field reconnaissance for TCLF’s What’s Out There Texas program, which is part of TCLF’s What’s Out There free, searchable, authoritative online database of the nation’s designed landscapes. Specific tasks include generating and editing text, on site photography, and photo editing. Excellent writing skills and attention to detail are essential for the job. The fellow will engage directly with SWA staff and remotely with TCLF’s Washington, DC-based staff.
Skills Required
- Excellent writing and editing;
- Research – archives and other primary source material, books and online;
- A good photographic eye;
- Experience with Photoshop;
- Experience with or knowledge of landscape architecture vocabulary and history.
Application Details
Submissions: Cover letter and resume are required. A brief writing sample is required - 2 pages or less, ideally a paper or essay about a designed landscape or landscape architect. Portfolio is not required.
Compensation Details: $15/hour, full time. The firm provides housing in Houston and Dallas.
Education Requirements: Landscape Architecture or Historic Preservation student or recent alumnus preferred. Other relevant degrees or experience will be considered.
Application materials due April 15, with phone interviews and hiring decision in late-April.
Please send application materials, questions or comments to Courtney@tclf.org.
About What’s Out There Texas
What's Out There Texas will develop content for What's Out There, an authoritative and profusely illustrated online database of the nation’s designed landscape legacy. The database already includes more than 1500 entries, 9,000 images and 750 designer profiles. What’s Out There Texas will research, document and create materials about historic designed landscapes in Texas. TCLF will also work with students and faculty from state-wide landscape architecture and preservation programs, along with local non-profit organizations and local landscape architecture firms to identify the sites, conduct the research, edit the content, and post the materials on TCLF’s What’s Out There Web site. These materials will be an ongoing resource for landscape practitioners, historians, academics, enthusiasts, students, teachers, and the general public, and will an important source of information about Texas’ remarkable landscape history.
About SWA Group
For more than five decades, SWA has been recognized as a world leader in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design. Our projects, located in more than 60 countries worldwide, have garnered over 700 awards, and many of our principals are widely acknowledged as among the industry’s most innovative and experienced designers and planners. Recent projects include the Houston Downtown Bayou Revitalization, City Creek Center in Salt Lake City, and California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is a 15-year-old Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that provides people with the ability to see, understand and value landscape architecture and its practitioners, in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, exhibitions, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. TCLF makes a special effort to heighten the awareness of those who impact cultural landscapes, assist groups and organizations working to increase the appreciation and recognition of cultural landscapes, and develop educational tools for young people to better connect them to their cultural landscape environs.
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