TCLF’s latest conference, Leading with Landscape IV: Transforming North Carolina’s Research Triangle, was held on April 13, 2018, at the James B. Hunt, Jr., Library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Topics explored include the regionally unique coupling of human and natural systems, how the area’s campus landscapes are serving as “incubators” for innovative planning and design solutions, new projects that are re-evaluating the region’s monuments and memorials, two revered public landscapes—Moore Square and Dix Park—and much more. To learn more about the conference: https://tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/raleigh2018/index.html
Foundations for Change
Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, President & CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Raleigh, the Triangle, and a 225-Year Overview of City Shaping and Landscape Architecture in the Region
This presentation sets the stage for the day by proving a foundation for the pair of presentations that follow (by Boone and Flink) that collectively address the region’s rich and intertwined natural and cultural systems. Using the dual lenses of planning and landscape architecture as a framework, the presentation will commence with an exploration of early (and only partially realized) planning efforts by William Christmas (1792) and Charles Mulford Robinson (1913). Gleaning what can be learned from these centuries-old efforts, the presentation will next move through shifting values that played out throughout the 20th century, exploring how the profession of landscape architecture, initially young to the region and in desperate search of leadership and recognition, evolved to tackle such critical and diverse topics as urban sprawl, the decline of urban centers, Modernism, the birth of the environmental movement, citizen participation and public engagement, equity, healing social wounds, and the present urban renaissance that is playing out in The Triangle.
The presentation will conclude with an overview of the curatorial vision for the three panels that follow which collectively aim to evaluate current project work, both built and on the boards, and how the work is balancing natural and cultural values in the civic and public realm.
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