Barbara leads short courses that explore the rich history of landscape design.

Magic to Stir Men’s Blood: Daniel Burnham and the City Plan of Chicago

You'll gain an understanding of this important piece of Chicago's story in time for the upcoming the centennial of the Plan. Short course, Mondays June 16, 23, & 30, 1 to 3 pm

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North Shore Senior Center: nssc.org

Low-key Genius:
Master Landscape-Gardener O.C. Simonds

An internationally recognized designer, O.C.Simonds spent his entire fifty-three career here in Chicago. A master of naturalistic plantings and spatial configuration, Simonds was responsible for hundreds of important gardens and landscapes, including Lake Forest College campus, Graceland Cemetery, Melody Farm, and dozens of North Shore residential plans.

This course provides an overview of Simonds’s career, his design company and influential clients, and finishes with analysis and discussion of his design style with application to today’s gardens. Four weekly sessions with dates to be determined.

 

Grave memorial inside Chicago's Graceland cemetery.