Andrea Cochran

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Andrea Cochran
Born1954
New York City, New York
Education Rutgers, [1] Harvard Graduate School of Design [1]
OccupationLandscape architect
Website https://acochran.com

Andrea Cochran (born 1954, [2] New York City [3] ) is an American landscape architect based in San Francisco. She is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and one of seven designer women featured in the 2012 documentary Women in the Dirt . [4]

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Early life and education

Cochran was born in New York City and grew up in northwestern New Jersey. [5] [3] [1] For college, she had an early interest in attending art school but was dissuaded by family. [5] [6] She enrolled at Rutgers originally intending to study animal science before eventually transferring to landscape architecture after attending a lecture by the head of the program, Roy DeBoer. [5] She received her undergraduate degree in 1976, then graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1979 [7] with a Masters of Landscape Architecture. [8] In 1981, Cochran moved to the California Bay Area. [1]

Career

Early in her career, Cochran worked on the east coast and in Europe before relocating to California. [9] [5] She worked for The Planning Collaborative in San Francisco prior to forming the partnership Delaney, Cochran & Castillo, Inc. [9] [10] with fellow landscape architect Topher Delaney in 1989. In 1998, Cochran founded Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture (ACLA). She became a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 2007. [3] In 2014, she was awarded the ASLA Design Medal [11] in recognition of her "body of exceptional design work at a sustained level for a period of at least ten years." [12]

Cochran has frequently been lauded as a master of minimalism in landscape design. Her firm's award-winning projects often feature clean lines, minimalist structure, and edges defined by plantings en masse. Her influences include fellow landscape architects Dan Kiley, Garrett Eckbo, and James Rose in addition to artists Robert Irwin and Fred Sandback. [1]

Major awards and honors

Major works

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References

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  2. ↑ Sardar, Zahid; Writer, Chronicle Staff (2009-07-22). "Andrea Cochran: Landscapes for our times". SFGate. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  3. 1 2 3 "Alumni Q&A: Andrea (Andie) Cochran MLA79". Harvard Graduate School of Design. 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  4. ↑ Lewis, Anna (2014). Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers . Chicago Review. p.  218. ISBN   9781613745113.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Alumni Story: Andrea Cochran's Journey from Art to 'Artist of the Land'". Newsroom. 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  6. ↑ "Andrea Cochran: "It's Hard to Sell Nothing" | Smart Cities Dive". www.smartcitiesdive.com. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
  7. ↑ "GSD Alumna receives 2014 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award". 7 May 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "About". ACLA. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  9. 1 2 Lang, Owen (3 October 2007). "Fellows to be honored". San Francisco Chronicle.
  10. ↑ Francis, Mark; Reimann, Andreas (1999-01-01). The California Landscape Garden: Ecology, Culture, and Design. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-21450-7.
  11. ↑ "American Society of Landscape Architects Announces 2014 Honors | asla.org". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  12. ↑ "The ASLA Design Medal | asla.org". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  13. ↑ "And the 2014 winners are..." Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum . Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  14. ↑ "901 Fairfax Hunters View | ASLA 2020 Professional Awards". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  15. ↑ "About". ACLA. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  16. ↑ Bing, Alison (2009). Napa and Sonoma. Lonely Planet. p. 76. ISBN   9781741794465.
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