Oberlander Prize Forum IV: Soak It Up

Los Angeles, CA | December 4-6, 2025

Join The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), the University of Southern

California (USC), and SWA Group for a daylong conference on Friday,

December 5, 2025, at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The program will highlight

landscape architecture’s role in addressing urban flooding and water

management in Los Angeles, Southern California, and globally. The

conference will be preceded by a reception on Thursday, December 4, at the

SWA Los Angeles studio featuring an opening keynote by Lauren Bon,

Metabolic Studio, and followed on Saturday, December 6, by mobile

workshops. Each event is separately ticketed.

Speakers include leading practitioners, academics, and critics from Los

Angeles and a panel of international speakers, including Oberlander

Prize laureate Kongjian Yu, the world’s leading proponent of the “sponge

cities” concept.