Over the past 16 years, Coen + Partners’ work has been recognized as progressive and timeless and has received more than 30 awards for design. Coen’s studio has been 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 Coen’s work as “pushing Midwestern boundaries.”

In 2003, Coen 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 50-year history. In 2006, Coen received the Special Award for Collaborative Work from the American Institute of Architects Minnesota Chapter.  Coen’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.

Coen lectures regularly, including in the recent 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. Coen 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.

The lecture is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1, off of Exposition Boulevard.