2016 Year in Review

Thanks to your continued and generous support, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) built an extraordinary record of accomplishments in 2016. As TCLF nears its 20^th year, we’re moving forward with a new website, new projects, and a new tagline that encompasses the entirety of the foundation’s work – connecting people to places. Through a combination of programs, events, and other initiatives, TCLF will continue to expand the understanding, value, and support for landscape architecture and its practitioners, and our exceptional shared landscape legacy.

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Highlights from 2016 include:

LAUNCHED – Assembled and curated The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin, a photographic exhibition created to honor the centennial of Halprin’s birth that debuts at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. (November 5, 2016 – April 16, 2017) and travels thereafter, beginning in San Francisco (spring/summer 2017) and Los Angeles (fall 2017). What’s Out There Weekend, free public tours of fifteen Halprin-designed sites, were also held throughout the U.S. and in Israel;

ORGANIZED – Leading with Landscape II: The Houston Transformation sold-out conference, held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston with support from the Rice Design Alliance and a dozen other partners, featured former Houston mayor Annise Parker, San Antonio mayor Ivy R. Taylor, and notable landscape architects, and What’s Out There Weekend Houston free public tours – together attended by more than 2,000 people;

 

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ADVOCATED – TCLF is actively involved in preventing the demolition of Pershing Park, a significant Modernist work by M. Paul Friedberg, located on Pennsylvania Avenue, two blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C. Pershing has recently been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. This year TCLF also moved many Landslide sites from “at-risk” to “saved” including: Olana, Hudson, NY; Capitol Park Towers in Washington, D.C. (with its Dan Kiley landscape); and the Garrett Eckbo-designed Tucson Civic Center in Arizona;

EXPANDED – TCLF unveiled two new What’s Out There guidebooks for Houston and New Orleans, and released the first two of five Cultural Landscapes Guides – for Philadelphia and New York City -- produced in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS), in honor of NPS’ 100^th anniversary;