2023 Class of Fellows, Theodore E. Lee, Minnesota Chapter
HGA, Minneapolis
Throughout his three-decade long career, Ted has focused on the creation and development of sustainable, enduring landscapes, bringing a unique sensibility for site history to each project. With his strong design concepts and technical expertise, he consistently creates thoughtful, award-winning well-detailed cherished environments. As the landscape architecture department leader for HGA (Hammel, Green and Abrahamson), Ted has applied his passion for plant materials and the use of stone to hundreds of built projects with campus environs that include public institutions, government agencies, Fortune 500 corporations, universities, and major hospitals. His projects all demonstrate that landscape architects can protect and honor the legacy of places by basing design on historic and environmental analysis. Among those projects are: the restoration of the Minnesota State Capitol grounds, St. Paul, MN, re-envisioning the grounds around the Capitol while preserving and protecting a national landmark, resulted in creating two new outdoor spaces-the Aurora Promenade, and the Capitol Plaza, a civic gathering space at the foot of the grand south stair; Minnesota Military Family Tribute, State Capitol Mall, a sensitively designed tribute that recognizes the families of Minnesota's veterans-past, present, and future; Minnesota Medal of Honor Memorial, State Capitol Mall, a memorial to honor those who went above and beyond the call of duty in service to our country; GSA/FBI Central Records Complex Winchester, VA, a sustainable campus and the GSA's first SITES project; FBI San Diego Field Office, melding security, sustainability and functionality on a federal campus, one of six that he has designed across the country; and GSA/Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Campus, Ft. Snelling, MN, creating a vocabulary of design elements that allowed security features to be transformed into attractive, inviting earthworks linked to the surrounding natural landscape.
As seen in LASN magazine, March 2023.
