The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Millennium Park Fountain

New Landscape Architecture Prize the First of its Kind

The Cultural Landscape Foundation last week announced the creation of an international landscape architecture price, to be awarded for the first time in 2021.

August 20, 2019 - The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Nashville, Tennessee

13 Cultural Landscapes At Risk of Disappearing

Threats facing major U.S. cultural sites today include development, drilling, and the federal government.

October 26, 2017 - The Architect's Newspaper

child playing in Peavey Plaza fountain in Minneapolis

Save that Funky Plaza?

Preserving urban landscapes can be just as important as preserving historic buildings. However, saving our design heritage needs to be balanced with the imperative that places effectively meet the functional needs of contemporary cities.

January 13, 2014 - Mark Hough

A Look at the Remarkable Career of Laurie Olin

The tenth entry in the Cultural Landscape Foundation's award-winning Pioneers of American Landscape Design series features the renowned landscape architect Laurie Olin, recent winner of the National Medal of the Arts.

December 1, 2013 - ArchDaily

Resurrecting a Forgotten Giant of Landscape Architecture

He's "among the most important, influential and personally idiosyncratic landscape architects of the 20th century," but outside of the profession, Dan Kiley isn't well known. A publication and exhibition scheduled for this year seek to change that.

February 13, 2013 - Huffington Post

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