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Inside the LA Studio: Oehme, van Sweden

OvS Principals Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace, and Eric Groft will discuss the firm, its revolutionary history, and its approach to design at the American Society of Landscape Architects' (ASLA) Annual Meeting and Expo in New Orleans this week. The session, part of ASLA's Inside the LA Studio series, highlights top-tier firms from across the country and is a perennial favorite among meeting attendees.

Session moderator, Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, President and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), will delve into the principals' 85 years of combined experience and highlight their sources of inspiration, collaboration with founding partners Jim van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme, and showcase their latest work.

OvS was the 2014 winner of the ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award.

OvS Garden Featured in Home & Design Magazine

The fall issue of Home & Design magazine showcases an OvS-designed garden in Bethesda, Maryland. Form + Function, by Sharon Jaffe Dan, explores the intimacy and scale of the Dynerman Architects home and two-acre site, which features a pool, spa, and multiple terraces. OvS' design preserves many of the existing trees, while complimentary understory plantings weave through the woodland setting. While hardscape features are arranged in crisp angles, responding to the house's modern lines, the gardens are fluid - uniting architecture and landscape architecture in a sculptural composition. Throughout the property, multiple areas of active and passive recreation respond to the needs of an active family of eight.

30 Year Old OvS Garden Shines in Baltimore Style Magazine

A garden representative of OvS' New American Garden style was featured in the June issue of Baltimore Style. More than thirty years ago OvS Founding Principal Jim van Sweden met with the owners of a Baltimore County, Maryland home to begin the transformation of a dynamic, countryside property. The 10-page photospread illustrates how the garden has evolved yet continues to honor its original design.

Maryland Residence Wins 4th AIA Chapter Award

The Maryland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects recently awarded OvS an Excellence in Design Citation for its work with Shinberg.Levinas Architects on a residence in Easton, Maryland. The proj ec t has been widely recognized by AIA chapters throughout the Washington Metropolitan area, and has received multiple awards:

2015 AIA Potomac Valley Chapter Honor Award
2015 AIA DC Chapter Merit Award
2015 AIA Northern Virginia Chapter Award of Merit

New American Garden Exhibition Now Open in Baton Rouge, LA

The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden is on display now through December 9 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The exhibition, a collaboration between the National Building Museum and The Cultural Landscape Foundation, chronicles the work of OvS Founding Principals Wolfgang Oehme (1930-2011) and Jim van Sweden (1935-2013).

Featuring 52 photographs of residential, civic, and commercial projects, the exhibition is a nod to Bold Romantic Gardens: The New World Landscapes of Oehme and van Sweden , a widely influential book Oehme and van Sweden wrote that showcases 21 projects and introduced the world to their horticulturally exuberant designs. The exhibition will travel to the Vollmer Visitor and Education Center at the Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore, Maryland in 2017.

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