Dump it Right There.

Meet Julie Bargmann, the inaugural recipient of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, described as the landscape architecture equivalent of the Pritzker Prize, so it's a really big deal! What makes this most exciting is the work that is being honored.

In 1992, Julie founded D.I.R.T studio – Dump It Right There – intent on regenerating contaminated and forgotten urban and post industrial sites. And it all began near Pittsburgh, at the Vintondale Reclamation Park, a 25-acre park on a former coal mine. The end result became the early poster child of her work, and a model for bioremediation featured in the Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial. Today, she is referred to as the “fairy godmother of industrial wastelands,” as she crafts amazing new landscapes out of contaminated and toxic sites.

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