The Cultural Landscape Foundation

The Alan Ward Portfolios of Designed Landscapes continue to grow. Preeminent landscape photographer and landscape architect Alan Ward documents the extraordinary power and beauty of China’s Imperial and Summer Palace complexes in Beijing in these NEW portfolios: https://lnkd.in/efpEjPtS

Landslide UPDATE: Mitchell Park Domes This once-threatened Modernist icon is the focus of a $134 million rehabilitation! Read more about “The Domes Reimagined” plan: https://lnkd.in/ev6fHsef Photos by Carol Highsmith

Attention Los Angeles ... the premiere of "Sitting Still," a new documentary about legendary and multi-talented landscape architect Laurie Olin is scheduled for Sat. Nov. 23. Special guest is Walter Hood, of Hood Design.

Landslide Update: the eviction of Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City has been stayed until February 2025! Supporters plan to use the intervening months to work on identifying alternative sites for housing slated for the garden. Read TCLF's article: https://lnkd.in/e9cGbhWa Photos courtesy Elizabeth Street Garden

In Indianapolis, IN, the Veteran’s Memorial Plaza’s primary feature is the 100-foot-tall obelisk composed of Berwick black granite and topped with gold leaf, situated on axis with the American Legion Mall and Indiana World War Memorial.?https://lnkd.in/e4ScmDMW

LANDSLIDE UPDATE - The Civil War-era site Fort Negley Park, built in part by freed and enslaved African Americans, and the first U.S. UNESCO “Site of Memory,” begins the first phase of a $50 million rehabilitation in spring 2025. Read more and learn about the site's history: https://lnkd.in/ekWYspFR Image: Rendering of Fort Negley Park, 2024 - Courtesy HDLA & Metro Parks Nashville

New Alan Ward Portfolio - Martha Schwartz Landscapes. From the iconoclastic Bagel Garden to the otherworldly Whitehead Institute courtyard, Ward captures two decades of his Harvard classmate’s stunning designs. The portfolio is now on TCLF's website: https://lnkd.in/enzC6Azn Photos by Alan Ward 1-Overhead view, Whitehead Institute, 1986 2-Overhead view, HUD Plaza, 1998 3-Sidewalk view, Bagel Garden, 1979

Traveling Exhibition On View - The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley, featuring 45 commissioned photographs of 27 iconic projects, is on view at Bell Works in Holmdel, N.J., now through November. The exhibition is open daily from 9am-6pm in the Art Space on The Block. Want to learn more and/or explore the exhibition online? Click the following link: https://lnkd.in/eDjmZzwK

Register Now - On Nov. 7 in New York City, artist Mary Miss, ex-museum director Max Anderson, art law attorney Christine Steiner, and TCLF’s Charles Birnbaum will discuss the Future of "Greenwood Pond: Double Site" and lessons learned. Learn more about this event and secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/eFHFQnyP

New Alan Ward Portfolio - Photographs documenting a public work of art in California by sculptor Isamu Noguchi are now on TCLF's website: https://lnkd.in/etnwrPMm According to Ward, in a Costa Mesa office park Noguchi created “an allegorical landscape of California’s ecoregions using the most basic elements: earthen mounds, stones, water and plants.” Photograph by Alan Ward, 2024