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design team member overviewTGDATerry Guen Design AssociatesLocal Landscape ArchitectureChicago, IllinoisTerry Guen Design Associates, Inc. is a Chicago-based landscapearchitecture and urban design firm founded in 1997. As a full servicedesign company, TGDA specializes in working closely with the clientand project team to provide highly visual and site specific designsolutions. With a focus on creating public landscape and open spaces,TGDA aims to create dynamic places that incorporate functional yetaesthetically pleasing landscape designs.Through our designs, TGDA shapes the energy and spirit of the diversecommunities surrounding each project, while simultaneously shapingthe urban environs into spaces for the celebration of multi-culturalevents, experiential art, and the natural environment. Moreover,each TGDA design solution reflects the contextual history of place, asound understanding of environmental and ecological conditions ofeach site, and a well defined and achievable program of site designfeatures and activities. To this end, TGDA directly applies experience inplanning and process to create interest for their projects with technicalexpertise in engineering and design so that efficient and appropriatedesign solutions can be successfully implemented within a project’sscope and means.A large part of TGDA’s philosophy stems from the earth itself. TGDAinherently believes in the creation and stewardship of the naturalenvironment. Through incorporating a unique knowledge of natureand ecology, TGDA utilizes a vast plant palette to design within thenatural frameworks and conditions prescribed by each site. In this way,both soils and native plant communities are a vital component not justto TGDA’s designs, but also to life itself. Different soil conditions andplant communities, like different design conditions, produce differentecosystems. Both soils and plants have the ability to generate food thatsustains life, store and filter contaminated water, and provide a homefor countless creatures. TGDA recognizes both the necessity and utilityof these often overlooked aspects of design, and incorporates theminto every project.Terry Guen Design Associates521 West Superior StreetSuite 327Chicago, Illinois 60654United States312 . 337.9145www.tgda.nettgda@tgda.netMillennium Park, ChicagoAs a steward of the environment, TGDA carefully develops andfosters every component of their designs so that ecological issues areaddressed long after the installation of a design. With careful planningand management considerations in mind, TGDA strives to reducetraditional maintenance activities related to site design. Using thelatest in product technology, best management practice standards,and long-forgotten concepts, TGDA reduces the environmentalimpacts of maintenance through letting natural systems, as much aspossible, work both with and for the design of the site.P I E R S C A P E A T N A V Y P I E R2.7