Charles Birnbaum — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
Visiting Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning + Preservation
Authored and edited numerous publications including 'Shaping the American Landscape' (2009)
Coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) for fifteen years
Awarded the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation in 2004
Served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design

Biography

Charles A. Birnbaum is the Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), an organization he established after serving as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Prior to founding TCLF, he spent fifteen years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) and a decade in private practice in New York City, focusing on landscape preservation and urban design.