Andrea Cochran

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568988122
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 192 pages
25,4 x 21,6 cm
colour
April 2009
€38,00 (excl. VAT)

Andrea Cochran

Landscapes

Mary Myers

Andrea Cochran: Landscapes presents eleven residential, commercial, and institutional landscape projects in detail, including Walden Studios in Alexander Valley, California; the sculpture garden for the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon; and the award-winning Children’s Garden in San Francisco.

Cochran’s work is distinguished by its careful consideration of site, climate and existing architecture. A stacked plane of planters, each housing a different variety of succulent, mimics the compression found in hills banked against each other in the distance. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of plant species, Cochran uses vegetation to blur edges, and porous and permeable materials to create grade changes that enlighten and disappear.

Stunning photography, drawings, plans, and an essay by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Henry Urbach enhance the text.