Publications

Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II: Making Postwar Landscapes Visible

TCLF unveiled another important publication this year. Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II: Making Postwar Landscapes Visible ( PMLA II ), our second volume on postwar landscapes, contains seventeen essays by practitioners of the era including Stuart Dawson, M. Paul Friedberg, Lawrence Halprin and Grant Jones. Additionally, present-day leaders in landscape architecture and historic preservation are represented, including Richard Longstreth, Laurie Olin, and Marc Treib. Papers from Canada, Portugal, and the United Kingdom round out the publication. TCLF was awarded grants towards the publication of PMLA II from The Graham Foundation and Jones and Jones, Architects and Landscape Architects. The final funding for the publication of PMLA II was given by Furthermore, a program of the JM Kaplan Fund. PMLA II was officially unveiled at a New York event hosted by Betsy Barlow Rogers, TCLF board member and the founder of the Central Park Conservancy, and her husband, Ted Rogers. Distinguished guests included Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of the New York Parks and Recreation Department; Roger Kennedy, former Secretary to Senator Edward M. Kennedy; architect, Robert A. M. Stern; and the city's housing commissioner, Shaun Donovan.

In partnership with the National Park Service, TCLF has distributed copies to all authors, donors, and state historic preservation offices. Through the president's travels, the book is being sold at all lecture, seminar, and conference venues.

 

Pioneers

In the fall, TCLF submitted a written request for a 'reversion of rights' to McGraw Hill for Pioneers of American Landscape Design; rights which are now secured. We are in discussions with our project partners to republish this first volume. The second Pioneers volume is now in the production stage. On the manuscript front for Pioneers of Landscape Design II, 140 pioneer entries have been received to date and are now in the editing and peer review process. TCLF has secured $14,000 in gifts to embark on this publication effort. The University of Virginia Press has expressed interest in both publishing the new edition and also reprinting the first volume.

 

Artist In Residence: Shapers of the American Landscape

TCLF continues to pursue the development of Artist In Residence: Shapers of the American Landscape. The project will explore landscape architects' personal gardens to reveal the designs as true reflections of their personal design philosophies. The United States has a rich collection of extant gardens belonging to some of our most cherished landscape practitioners, and through scholarly analysis of these personal spaces, we will gain greater insight into the uncompromised essence of our celebrated landscape architects' work. The project is envisioned as a publication in the first phase, to be followed by a traveling exhibition. We are now soliciting authors and opinions for Artist in Residence: Shapers of the American Landscape publication.