28th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series: Douglas Hoerr

Join NYBG on October 27 for the second lecture of the Annual Portfolios Series featuring landscape architect Douglas Hoerr who will present, Reading the Landscape.

Douglas Hoerr, FASLA, approaches landscape architecture as an act of exceptional craftsmanship, one that begins not with a signature style, but with a careful reading of place. As the founding partner and president of Hoerr Schaudt, he has shaped some of the country’s most celebrated residential gardens, civic landscapes, and cultural institutions for more than four decades through a design philosophy rooted in horticultural expertise, contextual thinking, and a profound respect for the unique opportunities each site presents.

Hoerr will demonstrate how extraordinary design often emerges from the most unexpected canvases. Drawing from projects including the multi-award-winning New England Farm, a painterly vision of 1700s Arcadia on Narragansett Bay; a former parking lot transformed into an ICAA Acanthus Award-winning garden in Columbus; the restoration of a long-lost Russell Page garden in St. Louis; the reimagined median of Michigan Avenue’s Magnificent Mile that inspired nationwide urban greening; and the revitalization of Graceland Cemetery into an everyday cultural destination, Hoerr will reveal how careful observation, horticultural expertise, and cultural context result in transcending landscapes that last the test of time.

CEUs available: LA CES