The 14th Annual Bellefield Design Lecture

featuring Susan Cohen, an award-winning landscape architect specializing in residential design.

FOLLOWED BY A GARDEN RECEPTION IN THE BEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN

Please note, tickets are available to attend this event in-person at the Henry Wallace Visitor Center, Hyde Park, NY or online during a real-time stream of the event. Please see the ticket link for more information.

 Finding Design: Garden Making and the Creative Process 

In a series of vignettes chosen from her book, Susan Cohen reveals the varied, often surprising, sources of inspiration behind the projects of outstanding landscape architects from around the world, tracing these works from the initial spark of creativity through stunning completion. The projects discussed include: a roof garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York inspired by a pair of camouflage pants and the set of a 1950s French film, a drought-resistant landscape in California inspired by a Van Gogh painting, a garden at the New York Botanical Garden inspired by a Martin Puryear sculpture, a campus plaza in Israel inspired the local by desert wadis, an English garden inspired by a Renaissance villa garden in Italy, a Shinto shrine garden in Japan designed by a Zen Buddhist priest, and a university campus in China inspired by the family rice farm of the designer's childhood. 

 Ticket Prices: In-person: $45 non-members, $35 members. Virtual: $15.

More about Susan Cohen:

Noted landscape architect, teacher and lecturer, Susan Cohen is the author of the lushly-illustrated book, THE INSPIRED LANDSCAPE: Twenty-One Leading Landscape Architects Explore the Creative Process.  A fellow of The American Society of Landscape Architects, she received the prestigious George A. Yarwood Award from the Connecticut Chapter of ASLA in 2016. She is the Coordinator of the Landscape Design Program at the New York Botanical Garden and is the founding coordinator of their acclaimed Landscape Design Portfolio Series.

 Susan Cohen is known for the use of natural materials in her elegantly designed residential landscapes, as well as for the two celebrated exhibition gardens she created for The New York Botanical Garden: Momijigari – The Japanese Autumn Garden, and Sculptures from the Museum of Modern Art. She also co-designed the Garden’s Kiku show, which celebrated the importance of meticulously trained chrysanthemums in Japanese culture.