Cultural Landscape Foundation Tours

 

Experience the landscape legacy of greater Los Angeles during What’s Out There Weekend, featuring FREE expert guided tours of iconic landscapes in LA, Pasadena, and Santa Monica. Explore Modern, Postmodern and other significant sites that go back to the region’s Spanish Colonial roots and Asian, Hispanic and African America heritage, with tours that reveal anecdotes and stories about city shaping, landscape architecture and design history.

Santa Monica area tours include:
Saturday, October 26

• Annenberg Community Beach House from 9:00 to 10:30 AM
• Colorado Center from 11:00 AM to Noon
• The Getty Villa from 2:00 to 3:00 PM

Sunday, October 27

• Palisades Park from 9:30 to 11:30 AM
• Ocean Park Neighborhood Beach from 1:00 to 2:30 PM
• Santa Monica Pier from 3:00 to 4:00 PM

Click here to learn more about tours, events and schedule…Tours have limited capacity, registration is required.

 

Landscape Legacy in the City of Angeles

Los Angeles’ landscape legacy ranges from its Spanish Colonial roots to the present, and includes Asian, Hispanic, and African American heritage. The region is known for its distinct Modernist design legacy, which connects indoors and outdoors in innovative ways, and it also has a unique history of Postmodernist with public spaces that meld architecture, landscape architecture and art into one inseparable unit. Explore LA’s design legacy through tours that include entertaining anecdotes and intriguing stories about city shaping, landscape architecture and design history. Many are places people pass daily, but do we know their background stories?

What’s Out There Weekend dovetails with the Web-based What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive searchable database of historic designed landscapes. The database currently features more than 1,400 sites, 9,000 images and 700 designer profiles.  And, What’s Out There is newly optimized for iPhones and similar handheld devices, and includes a new feature – What’s Nearby – a GPS-enabled function that locates all landscapes in the database within a 25-mile radius of any given location.