A Century in the Gardens
GLS Director Thaïsa Way reflects on our multifaceted centennial celebrations of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens
The Garden and Landscape Studies Program (1992–2022)
Expanding ways of studying how landscape and culture shape one another
Curating “A Century in the Gardens”
Garden centennial exhibit opens this month in the Orientation Gallery
Keeping Time with Nature
Telling the story and restoration of Dumbarton Oaks Park
The Formation of the Garden and Landscape Studies Program (1952–1991)
Transforming Mildred Bliss’s vision into an academic program
Nurturing the Gardens: The Dumbarton Oaks Greenhouse
Cultivating and caring for plants year-round
Choreographing Moments of Repose in the Gardens
Preserving historic furniture designs, from sketches to 3D computer models
The Mirror Wisdom of Dumbarton Oaks
Reflections on the role of women in landscape architecture and the garden
Exhibiting the Gardens
Preparing for in-person centennial celebrations
Sustaining the Gardens
Celebrating those who steward our gardens
Land and Labor: Dumbarton Oaks prior to 1920
A landscape history
Gardens as Anniversary
Celebrating the past, acknowledging the present, and looking to the future
The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens as Archive
Beginning a year of celebration