2024 Class of Fellows, Christopher L. Schein, FASLA, Maryland Chapter

Hord Coplan Macht, Baltimore, MD
by Hord Coplan Macht

Maryland Chapter - Category: Leadership/Management

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Maryland Chapter - Category: Leadership/Management

For close to four decades, Chris Schein has continually elevated landscape architecture as a critical component of the plan, vision, and design of memorable public spaces. A leader at Hord Coplan Macht, one of the largest multidisciplinary design firms, Schein has played a pivotal role in the firm's growth while ensuring active collaboration across disciplines throughout all office and market sectors, with landscape architecture being integral to the design portfolio. His design sensibilities and ability to navigate a design through a complex public review process with multiple city agencies stand as shining examples of what Landscape Architects can achieve. Schein is a recognized leader on important rehabilitation projects for major historical national and state parks and monuments, including security streetscape around the Capitol, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Treasury, House Office Buildings, and the rehabilitation of the 1812 D.C. war memorial. Schein has given almost 30 years of volunteer leadership to ASLA locally and nationally, most notably helping to protect landscape architecture licensure in the State of Maryland. As a volunteer trustee of the Historic Annapolis Foundation, Schein's perspective on preservation and urban redevelopment challenges has been critical to the effort to create a landscape-oriented pedestrian-friendly master plan for City Dock. As a practitioner, firm leader, passionate citizen, and advocate, Schein ensures that landscape architecture's aesthetic, experiential, and environmental priorities are part of every phase of a wide range of high-use, high-visibility projects.