Coen + Partners: The new landscape of collaboration

Shane Coen is the principal and founder of Coen + Partners, a landscape architecture studio based in Minneapolis. Over the past sixteen years, Coen + Partners’ work has been recognized as progressive and timeless; receiving over thirty awards for design. Shane’s studio is acknowledged by the AIA, the ASLA, the Committee on Urban Environment and the editorial staff of influential publications such as The New York Times, Dwell, Architecture (Architect), Metropolitan Home and Architectural Record. The New York Times architectural critic Anne Raver, describes Shane’s work as “pushing Midwestern boundaries.” In 2003, Shane and his firm received a Progressive Architecture Citation for the redesign of Mayo Plan #1, a new residential community in Rochester, Minnesota. This award, given for the radical reinterpretation of a standard subdivision plat, represents only the second time a landscape architect has received this honor in the prestigious competition’s fifty-year history. In 2006, Shane received the Special Award for Collaborative Work from the American Institute of Architects Minnesota Chapter. Shane’s work is also featured in ‘Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, a traveling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center and the Carnegie Museum of Art and most recently exhibited at the Yale School of Architecture in Connecticut. In addition to his practice, Shane lectures regularly, including recent panel participation in the lecture series “The Influence of The New West, Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context” at the New School in New York. He has given talks at the Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center and in Chicago at the symposium “Sustainable Waterfronts: Learning from the Dutch Experience” co-hosted by the AIA Chicago and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Shane received the Emerging Voices Award for 2009 and was a featured speaker at the Emerging Voices Lecture Series, sponsored by the Architectural League of New York. Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd. USC School of Architecture