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Chinese Landscape Architect Kongjian Yu, Champion of “Sponge Cities” Concept for Addressing Climate Change Accelerated Urban Flooding, Wins 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.

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The Graham Foundation has announced its annual list of organizational grants featuring a total of 36 recipients from around the world whose work furthers institutional goals to support the development and exchange of ideas about architecture and design. This years class included projects from a...

Graham Foundation has announced the 36 recipients of its award grants, which fund exhibitions, programs, publications, and digital initiatives.

CONSIDER THE CITY The nature of cities and their relative importance in modern society is dealt with from a variety of perspectives in these upcoming urban reads. Cities Matter: A Montrealer’s Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist Charles-Albert Ramsay Baraka Books, Oct. Montreal economist Charles-Albert Ramsay examines the economic writings of noted urbanist Jane Jacobs and

This list acknowledges some of the deaths in 2021 that are significant to the broader conservation community. Did we miss a death that occurred in 2021 that’s notable in conservation? Please reach out via this form. 6 Congolese rangers: Six Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) rangers working at Virunga National Park in the eastern […]

In memoriam: we remember inspirational creative figures sadly lost in 2021, including Virgil Abloh, Pauline Deltour, and Richard Rogers

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   A room at the Tenement Museum in an as-yet unrestored space that will be dedicated to a 19th-century Black waiter, Joseph Moore, and his family, in New York, May 27, 2021. As the museum prepares to celebrate its reopening, it is researching an apartment re-creation dedicated to a Black family, introducing a neighborhood walking tour called “Reclaiming Black Spaces” and revising all of its apartment tours to look more squarely at the ways that race and rac...

Cornelia Oberlander, a farseeing landscape architect, dies at 99 Based in Vancouver, B.C., the 98-year-old Oberlander has been in practice for more that 70 years. Photo © Charles A. Birnbaum, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation. by Penelope Green (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a German-born Canadian landscape architect who blended naturalistic designs with modernist ideals and recognized early on the urgency of climate change, designing public spaces to mitigate its eff...

An art project examines the objects police mistook for guns, plus sexual misconduct and racial reckonings at key cultural institutions.