“Landscape architecture in 2018 provided a bold vision for our shared built environment”

December 14, 2018 Charles A Birnbaum 0

In this Opinion column, Charles A Birnbaum looks back at the highs and lows of landscape architecture over the past year, and predicts that the discipline will continue to blur with other urban fields in 2019. From public art to waterfront developments and urban planning, landscape architecture in 2018 provided a bold vision for our shared

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“Landscape architects can’t rely on architecture-centric media”

September 5, 2018 Charles A Birnbaum 0

Landscape architects need to fly the flag for their profession if they are to receive the recognition they rightly demand and deserve, says Charles A Birnbaum. The biggest problem facing landscape architects, according to a recent survey in World Landscape Architecture (WLA), an online magazine based in China, is “a lack of recognition of landscape

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“There is no need to destroy one significant cultural legacy in order to celebrate another”

January 17, 2018 Charles A Birnbaum 0

The Obama Presidential Center will be presented to the Chicago City Council today. But its proposed siting in the city’s Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted’s historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles A Birnbaum. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are gifted architects. Their

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