With public projects she said it's important to "teach sustainability by using the design." However, instead of "solar collectors made in the shape of dragons," there's now a native meadow and bioswales that teach but "more quietly." An art installation made of metal rods will feature a cloud made from mist. ![]() After many presentations to the community, Cochran discovered that what they wanted didn't synch up at all with her winning design so she revised so the new park more subtly tells the story of sustainability. In a new commission she just won to revitalize the Allegheny Public Square across from the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Cochran will turn an area that "previously felt unsafe" because the central seating area was depressed and hidden from the exterior of the square into a vibrant new public park. Bamboo functions as a green wall, hiding views of the gritty building walls. A water fountain also helps create a meditative space. These are "permeable, quiet, recessive." She likes CORE-TEN because it's a material "upon which the changes in nature can be played out."įor the Curran House, an affordable housing project in San Francisco's rough Tenderloin neighborhood, Cochran created a contemplative garden residents can visit to decompress (see image at top). While she says her work is usually "hard-edged," in this case she used found tree logs to create soft, comfortable custom benches. The stairs' "height changes choreograph your movement through the space." To provide access to the buildings in this site, she didn't want to compete with Nauman but created her own variation made out of CORE-TEN steel and gravel. Bruce Nauman, a well-known contemporary artist, created a quarter-mile long staircase within a private northern Californian outdoor museum. Some of her projects involve working with artists. It's about the scale of nature against the scale of humans." She's been inspired by a well-known Japanese rock garden, which she said "is not about the rocks it's about the space in between the rocks." In the same way, the Lighting Fields in New Mexico "isn't about the lighting but the grid formation of 20 feet stainless steal poles. The relationship between humans and nature intrigues her. Some of Irwin's museum pieces require you to move." Like a landscape, "you can only experience them by moving through them." Since starting her own firm, she has created her own distinct, contempory style influenced by artists Robert Irwin and Fred Sandback, and landscape architect Dan Kiley. Robert Irwin ( see earlier post), a contemporary artist, creates "diminishing views. ![]() embassies in the Middle East, and spent time with a design-build firm before starting her own practice, which now has 12 people. She worked with the National Park Service in New England, designed landscapes for U.S. Within the field, Cochran has had many careers. She wanted to study art but her parents wanted her do something more practical. When she discovered landscape architecture, she believed she found a good fit. Her interest in both art and science drew her to landscape architecture. ![]() ![]() At the National Building Museum, Cochran outlined the many artists who have influenced her work and explained some of her projects that have, in turn, influenced many landscape architects. It's hard to sell nothing." As a result, Cochran joked she now shows "before images" in all her presentations. Click Here for Registration Information.Andrea Cochran, ASLA, a preeminent landscape architect, said landscape architects often don't get appreciated for their subtle work because if a "landscape is designed well it looks like nothing has been done. Students, faculty, staff and members of the surrounding community are encouraged to join Cochran on Novemfrom 4:30-5:30 online. Cochran's work has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and she has earned several illustrious awards, including the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture and the American Society of Landscape Architects’ Design Medal in 2014. She encourages audiences to approach the concept of space through a different lens and emphasizes the experiential qualities of the built environment in order to cultivate an evergreen connection to people and their surroundings. The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is pleased to present Immersive Landscapes with esteemed landscape architect Andrea Cochran as a part of its virtual lecture series on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Cochran will discuss the process of creating landscapes that visualize the ephemeral and transitory elements of our natural world.
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