Charles Birnbaum speaks at the Burchfield Penney as part of the Graycliff Lecture Series.
Charles A. Birnbaum FASLA, FAAR, is the Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, DC. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Academy in Rome. Prior to joining TCLF, Charles spent fifteen years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and a decade in private practice in New York City with a focus on landscape preservation and urban design.
He has written and edited numerous publications including 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 publication, Making Post-War Landscapes Visible (2004, both for Spacemaker Press). In 2008, Charles was the visiting Glimcher Distinguished Professor at Ohio State’s Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture and was also awarded the Alfred B. LaGasse Medal from the ASLA. This past year Charles was awarded the ASLA President’s Medal by the Society’s President. He is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post.
Admissionis free for Burchfield Penney and Graycliff members and $5 for the general public.