Eric Groft on UVA Professor Ben Howland
OvS principal Eric Groft was recently interviewed by NPR affiliate WVTF IQ Radio in Charlottesville, Virginia. The piece chronicled the career of Ben Howland, a former professor of Eric’s at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Lessons Learned on Planting Day
OvS Design Team member You Li recently spent two days planting the Friendship Garden at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC.
OvS Principal Eric Groft Joins Clients at Preservation and Museum Events in Amagansett
OvS Principal Eric Groft and clients Barbara Slifka and Susan Guillia joined Long Island conservation-minded benefactors at Through Farms and Fields, an event hosted by the Peconic Land Trust (PLC) at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, NY. Eric enjoyed a dinner sourced from local farms with John Halsey, PLC President and Founder, and his mother Emily Halsey.
Water in the Landscape
OvS Principal and CEO Lisa Delplace to Speak in Bergamo, Italy
This September Lisa Delplace, OvS Principal and CEO, will lecture at I Maestri del Paesaggi, International Meeting of the Landscape and Garden in Bergamo, Italy. The focus of the meeting of the most-well known landscape architects and garden designers is Wild Landscape, a theme that has resonated throughout Lisa’s career.
Public Gardens: An Under-Heralded Treasure
OvS has developed landscapes for public gardens throughout the country and recently has been engaged in one such transformation close to home.
OvS’ Amagansett Garden Featured in Garden Design
The Summer issue of Garden Design magazine includes a 14-page feature that details how OvS reinvented the 2-acre residential property located on a former nursery in Amagansett, NY into a summer retreat for an active family.
Eric Groft Reflects on a Client and Friend
The world recently lost a truce force of nature.
Celebrating Ms. Vollmer’s 100th Birthday
On a Friday afternoon in June, OvS traveled to the Baltimore home of long-time client Pauline Vollmer to celebrate her 100th birthday. The garden, originally designed by Wolfgang Oehme in the 1960’s, is widely recognized as OvS’ first residential garden.
Tippet Rise Art Center Opens
Memorial Service for Ambassador F. Haydn Williams
OvS Principal Sheila Brady recently attended the memorial service for Ambassador F. Haydn Williams at the National World War II Memorial. Williams, the founder and chairman emeritus of the Friends of the National World War II Memorial, worked closely with Sheila on the firm’s landscape architectural design at the Memorial.
The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden Now on Display in Pittsburgh
The New American Garden: The Landscape of Oehme, van Sweden, the exhibition curated by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, is on display at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PCT) now through August 26, 2016. The exhibition is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (PPC).
OvS by Bike: A Tour of Sites in the Nation’s Capital
Principals Eric Groft and Sheila Brady led landscape professionals, garden aficionados, colleagues and friends on a bike tour of OvS designs in the federal district of Washington, DC on Saturday, April 30.
Old Friends and New Plants at the NYBG Antique Garden Furniture Fair
OvS Principals Sheila Brady and Eric Groft, together with OvS designer Lili Herrera, attended the Preview Party and Collectors’ Plant Sale for the New York Botanical Garden’s (NYBG) 25th Annual Antique Garden Furniture Fair last weekend.
The New American Garden: The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden closes on May 1 at the National Building Museum. The museum, in collaboration with The Cultural Landscape Foundation, has been host to a wide breadth of OvS’ archival materials and photographs that illustrate the broad arc of landscape design: from inspiration and development, to implementation and the ongoing changes that are a part of a living landscape. Conceived to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the book Bold Romantic Gardens: The New World Landscapes of Oehme, van Sweden, the exhibition will go on tour across the country and include stops in Pittsburgh, Baton Rouge, and Baltimore.
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OvS has launched an Instagram account as a visual celebration of inspiration, collaboration, and landscape. Staff post daily photographs that feature images from both built work, projects under construction, favorite plants and landscapes, as well as everyday inspiration.
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Eric Groft attends UVA A-School Reunion
OvS Principal Eric Groft recently attended an alumni weekend at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture Department of Landscape Architecture. For Eric, the highlight was the opportunity to reconnect with mentor Dan Wenk, now superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.
TCLF Launches What’s Out There Houston Microsite
OvS Principal Eric Groft attended the What’s Out There Houston Weekend organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), of which he is a board member. Nearly 1500 participants took part in two days of free tours of some 35 sites that showcase the diverse landscape legacy of designed and natural spaces in the United State’s fourth largest city. TCLF ‘s website now features a microsite that provides in-depth exploration of the city’s green spaces.
Anemone x hybrida Named 2016 Plant of the Year
Washington City Paper on Pershing Park Re-Design
The Washington City Paper architecture columnist recently wrote about plans to redesign Pershing Park, a park planned and designed by modernist architect Paul M. Friedberg with plantings designed by OvS in the 1980’s.