TCLF Presents Patronage and Landscape Symposium
The Cultural Landscape Foundation will hold the symposium from November 9-11 at the Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation is pleased to announce that it will be partnering with House & Garden magazine, The National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, and Cranbrook Educational Community for a national symposium, Patronage and Landscape to be held November 9-11, 2006 at Cranbrook House and DeSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The conference has received generous support from House & Garden magazine.

Please click here to register for the symposium. Students may attend the Friday syposium for only $50 with a valid student ID. Contact Ruth Riddick at ruth@tclf.org to register at this special rate.

This two-day symposium (one day of lectures and one day of tours) will explore the role of landscape patronage historically and today. Utilizing the renowned Cranbrook National Historic Landmark property as a launching off point, this symposium will aim to reveal, showcase, and celebrate great patrons of our collective cultural landscape such as George Booth, J. Irwin Miller, George W. Vanderbilt, and the Ford family among others. The symposia will aspire to have the following results:

First, in regard to those designations to the National Register and National Historic Landmarks whose primary emphasis is on its architecture (e.g. Cranbrook's period of significance as a Landmark is only associated with Saarinen - hence Booth's-own Arts and Crafts estate is miraculously outside of the period of significance) this symposium will aim to broaden the way such designations are undertaken, and in the process embrace the great shapers of stewards of many of our most cherished places;

Second, there is a tremendous need to inspire a new generation of patrons by drawing attention to earlier visionaries who sponsored and built great estates, parks, promenades and other civic gestures. These collective and often invisible stories have the power to excite future generations of personal and corporate philanthropists.

This symposium will include the following speakers and topics:

Keynote Address: Thursday Night Gala
Richard H. Driehaus, President, Driehaus Foundation, Chicago, IL

Keynote Address: Patronage and Landscape
Laurie Olin, FASLA, FAAR, Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, & Principal, Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA

Patronage/Patrimony: Inspiration, Recognition and Inspiration
Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, Coordinator, National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and Founder, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Cranbook and George Booth
Mark Coir, Director Cranbrook Archives and Cultural Properties, Bloomfield Hills, MI

The Importance of Educating: Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and Landscape Patronage
Charles E. Beveridge PhD, Hon. ASLA, Series Editor of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Washington, DC

Championing the Designed Landscape: The Olmsted Brothers and their Patrons
Arleyn A. Levee, landscape historian and designer, Belmont, MA

Jens Jensen and his work for Henry and Clara Ford
Robert E. Grese, Professor, Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Director, University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

A Tale of Two Post War Cities: Columbus and New Harmony, Indiana
Meg Storrow, ASLA, Principal, Storrow Kinsella, Indianapolis, IN 

Closing Keynote: A Brief History of the American Academy in Rome through the Lens of Sustainable Philanthropy
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR'84, President, American Academy in Rome.