What’s Out There Weekend Los Angeles – October 26-27 – Free Two-Day Celebration of the Los Angeles area’s Distinct and Diverse Landscape Legacy
Media Contact: Nord Wennerstrom | T: 202.255.7076 | E: nord@tclf.org
Free, Expert-led Tours of more than Three Dozen Sites throughout Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa Monica – Opening Reception Fri. Oct. 25 at Room & Board in Culver City
Washington, DC (September 19, 2013) – On October 26-27, 2013, in Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa Monica, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will host What’s Out There Weekend Los Angeles, providing residents and visitors an opportunity to discover and explore more than three dozen free, publicly accessible sites in the LA area. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 25, 6:00-8:00PM, at Room & Board in the historic Helms Bakery Building at 8707 Washington Blvd, Culver City. The Los Angeles region’s landscape legacy ranges from its Spanish Colonial roots to the present, and includes Asian, Hispanic, and African American heritage. The region is known for its distinct Modernist design legacy, which connects indoors and outdoors in innovative ways, and it also has a unique Postmodernist design history with innovative public spaces that meld architecture, landscape architecture and art into one inseparable unit. Explore LA's design legacy through tours by experts and practitioners including Pamela Burton, Dennis McGlade and Mark Rios that offer entertaining anecdotes and intriguing stories about city shaping, landscape architecture and design history. A companion What’s Out There Weekend Los Angeles Web site features downloadable information about all the locations and a schedule of tours.
What’s Out There Weekends have been held in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and twice in Washington, DC, with each event drawing more than 1,000 participants. The weekend is an extension of the What’s Out There database of America’s designed landscapes. The free, online, searchable, Wiki-format, and vetted database hosts illustrated entries of nearly 1,500 parks, gardens and open spaces throughout the US, supported by more than 10,000 images and 700 designer profiles. What’s Out There is now optimized for smartphones and other handheld devices and features What’s Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all sites in the What’s Out There database within a 25-mile radius of any given location. The Weekend will be followed in 2014 by a symposium on Postmodernism in Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Southern California.
What's Out There Weekend Los Angeles sites:
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Annenberg Community Beach House |
Maguire Gardens (LA Central Library) |
“The region’s unrivaled landscape legacy includes the last chain of parks and plazas designed by Lawrence Halprin, unique in his career for being Postmodernist in style, along with Modernist jewels by Peter Walker and Garrett Eckbo,” said Charles A. Birnbaum, TCLF’s Founder and President. “This Weekend will further elevate awareness of LA’s distinct and innovative design heritage.”
What's Out There Weekend Los Angeles is made possible by Presenting Sponsor Coldspring; and Partners, The Los Angeles Conservancy; Park West Companies; Room & Board; the Santa Monica Conservancy; the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Monrovia.
What is a cultural landscape?
A cultural landscape is a geographic area that includes cultural and natural resources associated with an historic event, activity, person, or group of people. Cultural landscapes can range from thousands of acres of parkland to small homesteads. There are a broad range of landscape types, including waterfronts, campuses, cemeteries, commemorative landscapes, and scenic highways. They exist in direct relationship to their ecological contexts. They are works of art, narratives of cultures, and expressions of regional identity.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) 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.