The Cultural Landscape Foundation® to Unveil What’s Out There® Denver A Guide to the Mile High City’s Designed Landscape Legacy Nov. 21 at Denver Botanic Garden
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At Event Don & Carolyn Etter to Receive TCLF’s 2014 Stewardship Excellence Award
Washington, DC (September 4, 2014) – The Cultural Landscape Foundation® (TCLF) today announced that What’s Out There® Denver, a new city guide to the Mile High City’s designed landscape legacy, will be unveiled at a reception at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Marnie’s Pavilion on Friday, 21 November 2014, from 4:30 to 6:30pm (tickets are required). The guide, produced by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) in tandem with American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National and the Colorado Chapter, landscape architecture students at the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado Denver, and with support from Design Workshop, is a free, searchable online introduction to more than 50 sites in Denver; and is the preface to What’s Out There® Weekend Denver with free, expert-led tours slated for 2015. The event is a capstone to TCLF’s daylong Rocky Mountain Mod excursion, and culminates with the presentation of TCLF’s 2014 Stewardship Excellence Award to Don and Carolyn Etter.
Denver’s broad and regionally distinct designed landscape legacy features work by pioneers in the field including Olmsted Brothers, George Kessler, Lawrence Halprin, S. R. DeBoer, Koichi Kawana, Laurie Olin and Satoru Nishita, and ranges from picturesque parks and suburbs to Modernist plazas and pedestrian malls. The city guide has been optimized for iPhones and similar handheld devices and also includes What’s Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all sites in the database within a 25-mile radius.
The launch event will be preceded by the daylong Rocky Mountain Mod excursion, featuring a festive luncheon and tours of regional Modernist Gems by Dan Kiley, Lawrence Halprin and Garrett Eckbo – among them the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Babi Yar Park in Denver and more. Participation is limited for the daylong event and transportation will be provided.
The capstone of the day will be the exclusive, twilight reception and What’s Out There® Denver guide launch at the Botanic Gardens, which exhibits the region’s first outdoor installation by celebrated artist Dale Chihuly, and the presentation of TCLF’s 2014 Stewardship Excellence Award to Don and Carolyn Etter, whose many years of civic efforts, publications, presentations, and project and photographic work include: joint service as Managers of Denver's Department of Parks and Recreation; preservation and development work while with Historic Denver; and authorship of a collection of publications over the past forty-two years, among other accomplishments.
“Great city parks, like those in Denver, are the products of inspired designers and dedicated stewards,” said TCLF Founder and President Charles A. Birnbaum. “What’s Out There® Denver will reveal the city’s exceptional designed landscape legacy and the many professionals responsible for its creation and management.”
First awarded in 2001, the Stewardship Excellence Award is bestowed on a person, group or agency that shares TCLF's mission of "stewardship through education. Past recipients of the Stewardship Excellence Award include: individuals (Mayor Richard M. Daley, Dr. Charles E. Beveridge); not-for-profit organizations (Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, The American Academy in Rome, Greenacre Foundation); historic properties (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Casa del Herrero Foundation); local groups (Friends of Gas Works Park, Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy); state municipalities (Kentucky Heritage Council); and federal agencies (The Presidio Trust, National Park Service). The aim of the award is to spotlight stewardship stories that will educate and inspire future generations of cultural landscape stewards.
Tickets for the Rocky Mountain Mod excursion, which includes the evening reception, are nearly sold out. Tickets for the reception only are also available.
The sponsors for the Rocky Mountain Mod activities are Bartlett Tree Experts, Coldspring, Kelco Landscaping and Construction and Maglin Site Furniture.
About ASLA Colorado
ASLA Colorado was founded in 1973 under the direction of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). ASLA Colorado advances the profession by advocating the issues that affect members. The association provides professional education and programs and generates overall awareness for landscape architecture to the public through our public relations and government affairs efforts. For more information go to www.aslacolorado.org or email: info@aslacolorado.org.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation®
The Cultural Landscape Foundation® (TCLF) is a 16-year-old 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation 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, 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.