Mexican Landscape Architect Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano Win 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize
Pictured above—L to R - Marco A. González (Sr. Associate), Ana Schjetnan (Partner), Mario Schjetnan (Founding Partner and Dir.), Manuel Peniche (Sr. Associate), 2025. Photo © Barrett Doherty courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
connects people to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.
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Oberlander Prize
The biennial Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize includes a $100,000 award and two years of public engagement activities.
PLACES: What's Out There
This searchable database raises public awareness of the rich diversity and interconnectedness of our shared landscape heritage.
Check Out the Newly Expanded Chicago What’s Out There Cultural Landscapes Guide
Discover the landscape legacy of dozens of sites, their histories and designers, in this richly illustrated and engaging guide.
Buckner Homestead Historic District
Chickasaw Park
Loring Greenway
Museum of the Northern Cultures, Paquimé
STEWARDSHIP: Landslide
The goal of Landslide is to draw immediate and lasting attention to threatened landscapes and unique features, and to encourage informed, community-based stewardship decisions.
Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds
Thirteen sites of significant protests in U.S. history where the protests are at risk of fading from public memory, or worse, being forgotten.
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at-risk
Embarcadero Plaza
A Lawrence Halprin masterwork (and skateboarders' paradise) is threatened with demolition.
at-risk
Gas Works Park
Reflecting Richard Haag’s innovative approach to landscape architecture, this park is threatened by plans to extensively remove piping, catwalks, ladders, and support systems from the site’s prominent "Cracking Towers."
EVENTS: Lectures, Exhibitions, Tours
TCLF hosts events across the United States including excursions, dialogues, and tours that highlight the nation's rich and diverse landscape heritage.
Soak it Up: Los Angeles, CA
Register Now - Daylong conference on Dec. 5 with international leaders about urban water management challenges and innovative solutions. Mobile workshops, too - Early Bird Rate has been extended throhg October 24.
Examples: Landscape name, designer, stytle, location, etc
Advanced SearchPEOPLE: Designers & Stewards
Pioneers of American Landscape Design chronicles the lives and careers of those who have designed our gardens, parks, streets, campuses, cemeteries, suburbs, and the innumerable other environments in which we live.
Get Ready for Soak it Up: Los Angeles, CA
Check out these five video presentations that set the stage for the December event, including Kongjian Yu, who tragically died September 23. Yu was joined by Kotchakorn Voraakhom (Thailand), Mia Lehrer (United States), Jasper Hugtenburg (Netherlands), and Herbert Dreiseitl (Germany).
Examples: “Dan Kiley” or “Modernist”
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