For more information about the competition schedule and details see the James Rose Center website.

This season’s lectures were held in the Portland Museum of Art’s auditorium on four consecutive Thursdays during the month of April.  Shane’s keynote was on April 8, 2010.

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Starting at the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Shane lectured on the “The New Landscape of Collaboration”.  The UC Berkeley lecture coincided with an exhibition of Coen + Partners work displayed at Wurster Hall.

Following the Berkeley presentation, Shane lectured at the University of Southern California, School of Architecture on November 4, 2009 and at Princeton University,  School of Architecture as a part of the Down the Garden Path lecture series on December 2, 2009.

The conference featured speakers that cut across various fields including landscape architecture, industrial design, interactive media, interior design, communication and architecture, among others.  Intended as a brainstorming session to speculate about design, each speaker gave a brief talk about their perspective.

For more information see the Future of Design webpage.

The jury considered nearly 600 entries—the largest number in ASLA history—from around the world and selected 49 projects for recognition in general design, residential design, analysis and planning, communications and research. The awards ceremony will take place at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Chicago on September 21.

Click on the links below to see more of Coen + Partners’ work:

Residential
Community
Urban
Institutional

The Architectural League of New York created the annual Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. The series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice–geographically, stylistically, and ideologically. Heralded as an important benchmark in the profession of architects by the Architect’s Newspaper, the honor is not often bestowed upon landscape architects. In the award’s 27 year history 10 landscape architects have received the honor.

Shane presented the firm’s work on March 5th at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue in New York City. Also lecturing that evening was architect Derek Dellekamp, of Dellekamp Arquitectos, from Mexico City.

Visit the Architecture League’s website for more details.

An event “dedicated to education and advocacy for sustainability in all its forms throughout the upper Midwest” the Plain Green Conference kicked off with the Principal and Founder of Coen + Partners, Shane Coen, as keynote speaker.

A prominent voice and leader in the design of sustainable communities and landscapes such as Jackson Meadow and Mayo Woodlands, Shane was invited to share his expertise in design and understanding of “what is sustainable” in an age when such a phrase is commonly over used. His kick-off lecture was well received amidst an audience spanning design professionals, government officials, local citizens and students, and the general tone of the conference was set by his understanding that ‘sustainable’ means understanding your context and paying respect to the land and its people.

The inaugural event brought together professionals, government, students and the general public to learn about, discuss and act on the various issues affecting our environment today. A diverse range of speakers, tours and other events will encourage new viewpoints and reveal new opportunities to make positive change in the Midwest region.

The Influence of The New West
Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
7:00 p.m.

Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams‘s The New West signaled a significant shift in photographic representation of the American landscape. Adams focused on construction of tract and mobile homes, subdivisions, and urban sprawl in the Denver area, where he lived at the time. Coinciding with the reissue of this seminal photography book by Aperture, panelists will discuss the impact of this body of work as well as the ongoing issues related to our not-so-delicate relationship with the western landscape.

Panelists include: Joshua Chuang, Yale University Gallery; Mark Klett, photographer; Shane Coen, coen+partners.

The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, New York, New York
(212) 229-5353

For more information, visit the Aperture Foundation website.

Minneapolis, Minn. — Minneapolis architect Shane Coen wants suburban design to be more responsive and deferential to nature. His firm, Coen+Partners, creates planned communities where open space and connection to neighbors are more important than three-car garages and curving cul-de-sacs.

Coen’s Mayo Woodland project near Rochester is featured in “Worlds Away.” Coen says he’s continually struck by how much time people spend in their homes.

“And how little most people think about how amazing of a place they could make that, without any more money,” Coen says. “It’s really about thought. And that’s the most intriguing thing to me about the suburbs and just the way that people live today.”

The Walker is billing “Worlds Away” as the first major museum exhibition examining art and architecture in the contemporary American suburb.

To read the entire MPR feature or to stream the audio click here.

Worlds Away Exhibit

The Exhibition
The exhibition contains works by more than 30 artists and architects and is arranged in three sections: the residential tract home; the retail zone, comprised of the strip mall and big box store; and the infrastructure for automobiles and the culture it has engendered. Several design firms are producing new works for the exhibition, including Estudio Teddy Cruz, which will explore the role of architecture in shaping community; Fashion.Architecture. Taste, which will present its work on a multiethnic suburban park in the Netherlands; Lateral Architecture’s exploration of the spaces between and around big box power centers, the successor to suburbia’s regional mall; Interboro’s examination of life at a so-called “dead mall” in New York; Coen+Partners revision of a traditional cul-de-sac development; and the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s (CLUI) documentation of the major automotive test tracks located in various urban peripheries of the United States.

Click here to see the Walker Art Center’s press release.