She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award

Julie Bargmann, the 2021 Oberlander Prize laureate.

Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls “the gnarliest.”

(Image credit: Barrett Doherty/The Cultural Landscape Foundation)

Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls “the gnarliest.”