Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA

President + CEO
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Washington, District of Columbia

Prior to serving as TCLF President + CEO, Birnbaum spent 15 years with the National Park Service and a decade in NYC private practice. Birnbaum was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s GSD, and a Rome Prize recipient. He was awarded ASLA’s LaGasse Medal (2008), President’s Medal (2009), ASLA Medal (2018) and Olmsted Medal (2023). He serves as Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s GSD (2020-); Visiting Professor, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture (2011-16), and Glimcher Distinguished Professor, Ohio State (2007). In 2021, TCLF unveiled The Oberlander International Prize in Landscape Architecture, a permanently endowed Prize with a $100,000 purse.

Presentation(s):

• SAT-C08: Managing Change: A Case Study at the Intersection of Modernism and Memorial

  Saturday, November 12, 2022
  3:45pm – 5:00pm PT

• SUN-C01: Inside the LA Studio—LaGuardia Design Group

  Sunday, November 13, 2022
  3:45pm – 5:00pm PT

• MON-A03: The Olmsted in All of Us: Reflections from the past Four Decades

  Monday, November 14, 2022
  9:00am – 10:30am PT