The inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize winner was recently awarded to breakthrough landscape architect, Julie Bargmann.

Bargmann is known for her work in regenerative landscapes, she is a University of Virginia faculty member and has been a leader in urban reclamation projects as well as post-industrial sites. She also founded "Dump It Right There" studio in 1992 which is a self-described "critical, design research-based practice driven by a love for the landscape, a concern for marginalized communities, research into eco-technologies, investigation of site histories, and an obsession with urban regeneration."

 

The newly created award was established by the Washington, D.C.-based Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) in August 2019. The Oberlander Prize recognizes practitioners like Bargmann who much like the award's namesake revolutionized the profession.

"She is not your typical landscape architect," Bargmann's colleague Elizabeth K. Meyer remarked, "She is in the thick of every major concern that landscape architects have been dealing with for the last thirty years, whether it's sustainability or thinking about toxic and post-industrial sites, but her work is not following best practice. It's blowing them up and establishing new practices that no one had imagined."

The prize, which is based on Canadian Landscape Architect, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, includes a $100,000 award and two years of public engagement activities.

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