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Modernist Gardens & Minimalist Art

Influences of Art on Contemporary Landscapes

Wednesday February 3rd at 11:30 am
Rainer Room

This seminar will weave together the influence of art on the first wave of modernist landscape architects.  San Francisco based landscape architect Andrea Cochran discusses the parallel influences on the work of Minimalist and Installation artists that considered spatial and perceptual relationships of paramount importance in their work, and how this has helped to shape her own work in landscape architecture.

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Andrea Cochran

2010 Show Judge - Principle, Andrea Cochroan Landdscape Architecture

Andrea Cochran has been practicing landscape architecture in the San Francisco Bay area for over twenty-five years. She graduated from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and worked on the East Coast and in Europe before moving to California in 1981. After working in collaborative partnerships for over ten years, she established Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture in 1998.  Across a diverse range of project type and scale, Cochran's work is distinguished by its careful awareness of site, climate and the existing environment. She instills all of her work, from small-scale residential to large-scale institutional, with an intimacy and attention to detail that transcends the project boundaries and resonates in the larger design community.  She served as a commissioner on the civic design committee of the San Francisco Arts Commission and on the executive board for the Architecture and Design Forum at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  Ms. Cochran was a finalist in Landscape Architecture for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards in 2006 and 2009. A monograph of her work was published by Princeton Architectural Press in May of this year.  Website: www.acochran.com

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