Oberlander Prize Forum V: RE:SEARCH
EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: Join TCLF and Longwood Gardens for a one-day symposium on October 29 examining how landscape architects are redefining the relationship between research and design, with a keynote address and reception on October 28 and mobile workshops on October 30.
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 What’s Out There New York City Cultural Landscapes Guide
Thanks to support provided by Fund for the City of New York on behalf of its fiscally sponsored project, the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project., TCLF recently expanded this guide to include a greater diversity of landscapes that make visible the city’s vibrant LGBTQ+ history and culture.
Forest Park - MO
Independence Mall
Love Park
NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle
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.
Why is the National Park Service Helping the Administration Evade the Law?
The National Park Service’s stated mission is to preserve natural and cultural resources; however, it’s not properly doing its job and Washington, D.C.'s National Mall and Monumental Core could be severely damaged.
Recent Updates
at-risk
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
TCLF and seven other organizations sued the Trump Administration seeking to prevent changes to the nationally significant cultural institution and living memorial to the 35th U.S. President
saved
Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory
Completed in 1967, the conservatory with its iconic Modernist domes is located in southern Milwaukee’s 61-acre Mitchell Park.
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.
Garden Dialogues 2026: Provincetown, MA
Join TCLF for an exclusive Garden Dialogue with the founder of Angell Landscape Architecture, Marissa Angell, that examines a cohesive, welcoming, and animated landscape that pays homage to the surrounding national seashore.
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.
Claude Cormier Oral History
The extraordinary life and career of landscape architect Claude Cormier are the subject of the nineteenth oral history in the award-winning Pioneers of Landscape Design ® Oral History Project.
Examples: “Dan Kiley” or “Modernist”
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