The Maryland Chapter of ASLA has partnered with Morgan State University to provide
1.0 LA CES for the following lecture, part of the Morgan SA+P Spring Lecture Series.
Why Not Cultural Systems?
CHARLES BIRNBAUM, FASLA, FAAR
MARCH 11 @ 5:30 PM
CBEIS Room 235
5299 Perring Pkwy, Baltimore, MD 21214
How do cultural landscapes shape our shared public memory? How do our collective planning, design and stewardship decisions affect how we assign value and manage change? Once a project is built, how do we measure success?
In an attempt to address these challenges, what role can – and should -- landscape architecture play as a collaborative participant in a national reckoning? How can the discipline prepare to develop the necessary awareness and tools to address) erasure, memorials of the past, antiquated rigidity of historic government historical (and purposeful standards -- and – in response, how can we commemorate the past in our shared public realm in our cities, parks, campuses (academic, cultural), and elsewhere – by amplifying community voices?
This lecture examines the planning, design, advocacy and stewardship opportunities -- and
constraints -- frequently encountered when dealing with managing change and our shared
cultural landscape heritage.
BIO
Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, is the president, CEO, and founder of The Cultural
Landscape Foundation (TCLF). Prior to creating TCLF, Birnbaum spent fifteen years as the
coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) and a decade in
private practice in New York City, with a focus on landscape preservation and urban design.
Since taking the helm in 2008, Birnbaum’s major projects include the web-based initiative What’s Out There (a searchable database of the nation’s designed landscape heritage) and the creation of the first International Prize in Landscape Architecture named for Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. He has authored and edited numerous publications, including: Experiencing Olmsted: The Enduring Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted's North American Landscapes (Timber Press, 2022); Shaping the Postwar Landscape, (UVA Press, 2018); Modern Landscapes: Transition and Transformation (Princeton Architectural Press, series vols 1+ 2 (2012, 2014); Shaping the American Landscape (UVA Press, 2009); Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage (UVA Press, 2005); Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture (1999) and its follow-up, Making Post-War Landscapes Visible (2004, Spacemaker Press); Pioneers of American Landscape Design (McGraw Hill, 2000); and The Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes (National Park Service, 1996).
In 1995, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) awarded the HLI the President's Award of Excellence. In 1996, the ASLA inducted Birnbaum as a Fellow of the Society. He served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, during which time he founded TCLF. In 2004, Birnbaum was awarded the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation and spent the spring and summer of that year at the American Academy in Rome. In 2008, he was the Visiting Glimcher Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University's Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture. That same year, the ASLA awarded him the Alfred B. LaGasse Medal, followed by the President’s Medal in 2009. In 2017, Birnbaum received the ASLA Medal, the Society's highest award. Birnbaum has served as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, and currently serves as a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he has also been a visiting critic. He was also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post (2011-18). In 2020 Birnbaum received the Landezine International Landscape Honour Award as well as the Garden Club of America’s Historic Preservation Medal. In 2023 TCLF received ASLA's Olmsted Medal.
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