Charles A. Birnbaum
Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, is president & CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Prior to creating TCLF, he spent 15 years as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and a decade in private practice in NYC with a focus on landscape preservation and urban design. He has authored/edited numerous publications including Modern Landscapes: Transition and Transformation (Princeton and LSU Press), Shaping the American Landscape (UVA Press), Design with Culture (UVA Press), Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture (Spacemaker Press), and Pioneers of American Landscape Design (McGraw Hill).
Charles is a fellow of the ASLA and a Rome Prize recipient. He was awarded the ASLA’s LaGasse Medal in 2008, the President’s Medal in 2009 and the ASLA Medal (the Society’s highest honor) in 2018. He has recently served as a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, a visiting critic at the GSD, and from 2010-2018 was a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post.