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Wednesday: preserving 1960s landscape design

By Craig Nakano
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Great landscape architecture often gets short shrift compared with great buildings. To borrow a line: Landscapes are treated like parsley around the roast.

That expression was passed on to me by Nord Wennerstrom, a spokesman for the Cultural Landscape Foundation, which Wednesday night is teaming with the L.A. Conservancy to elevate parsley from garnish to main course. Foundation President Charles Birnbaum and midcentury architecture author Alan Hess will talk about the history and preservation of 1960s landscapes. Many of these iconic designs are turning 50 years old -- a symbolic milestone and the point at which built environments often win affection as historic objects worth protecting.

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The conversation runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Proud Bird Restaurant near LAX.

-- Craig Nakano

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Craig Nakano

Craig Nakano is the assistant managing editor for Entertainment and Arts. He joined The Times as an assistant travel editor, later served as home editor and most recently was the fine arts editor, leading a team whose accolades included a Pulitzer Prize and an Online Journalism Award. A California native, he worked at the Desert Sun of Palm Springs and at the San Francisco Chronicle after graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He lives in Long Beach with his husband and son.

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