Event Details

End: December 4, 2015

Thursday, December 3, 6:30–8 pm Spotlight on Design: Oehme, van Sweden $12 Museum and ASLA Member | $12 Student | $20 Non-member.

Wolfgang Oehme (1930-2011) and James van Sweden (1935-2013), founders of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, revolutionized modern American landscape architecture through the use of ornamental grasses and perennials to create living tapestries requiring relatively little maintenance. In a moderated discussion with Museum curator G. Martin Moeller, Jr., the firm's current generation of leaders, Lisa E. Delplace, ASLA; Eric D. Groft, FASLA; and Sheila A. Brady, FASLA, discuss the firm’s work, which is the subject of the exhibition The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden. That exhibition was organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, and its president and CEO, Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, joins the panel to reflect on the significant contributions of OvS to the practice of landscape architecture. The exhibition will be open to attendees before the discussion. 1.5 LU HSW (AIA) / 1.5 CM (AICP) / 1.5 PDH (LA CES)