Dynamics Between Landscape, Architecture, & People

Joel Baldin, ASLA - hitchcockdesigngroup.com

How does one incorporate architecture, landscape, and the needs of those who live and experience the landscape? Joel Baldin, ASLA, Hitchcock Design Group, will discuss selected Alfred Caldwell's designs and their dynamic restorations. Caldwell was the last Prairie School landscape architect. He worked for and was mentored by Jens Jensen, was admired by Frank Lloyd Wright, and collaborated with Mies van der Rohe as an instructor at Illinois Institute of Technology. His work in Chicago includes Skyline Park at Lake Point Tower, the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool in Lincoln Park, and Promontory Point in Burnham Park. Caldwell was a landscape architect, poet, civil engineer, architect, city planner, philosopher, and distinguished professor of architecture during his long life of 95 years.

Joel is a landscape architect with Hitchcock Design Group in Chicago, Illinois and has worked on over fifty Chicago Park District parks including many historic landscapes designed by Jensen, Caldwell, and Frederick Law Olmsted.

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