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MICHIGANAVEMAG.COM 115 PHOTOGRAPHY BY LINDA OYAMA BRYAN WITH LUSH NEW TOME MOVEMENT AND MEANING, RENOWNED CHICAGO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIRM HOERR SCHAUDT KICKS OFF SUMMER IN VERDANT STYLE. BY STEPHEN OSTROWSKI GARDENS OF EDEN When Douglas Hoerr arrived in Chicago in 1991 following a two-year apprenticeship in the leafy gardens of England, the landscape architect was under- whelmed. "It was good, thoughtful landscape architecture," recalls the Indiana native, "but it was more focused on hardscapes and plazas; horticulture was by and large perfunctory." Since then— first as a solo practitioner and later partnering with the late Peter Schaudt to form powerhouse firm Hoerr Schaudt in 2008—the 60- year-old Lincoln Park resident has beautified environs ranging from the Mag Mile's famed flower medians to Grant Park's Tiffany Celebration Garden. As Hoerr celebrates the recent publication of Movement and Meaning (The Monacelli Press, $50), a stunning new retrospective documenting the global imprint of the duo's renowned green thumb, he shares his thoughts on some of the firm's most successful projects in Chicago and beyond. Beautification breakthrough: Commissioned in 1991, Hoerr's verdant planters outside Crate & Barrel's Michigan Avenue flagship did much more than just gussy up the Mag Mile; the project "had a huge impact on Chicago, to a degree, [of] rebranding a city that was always known for toughness," he observes, adding, "It was holding its own and saying, 'Look what it does when architecture and landscape work in harmony together.'" Horticulture 101: From the 40,000-square-foot green roof garden of Toronto's Phillips Square to the McGovern Centennial Gardens in Houston's Hermann Park, Hoerr Schaudt's reach is international—but informed by circumstances The Tiffany Celebration Garden in Grant Park picturesquely frames the grand Buckingham Fountain. SPACE REAL ESTATE & DESIGN