Shane Coen is a principal and the founder of Coen + Partners, a Minneapolis and New York City based landscape architecture practice. For 16 years in collaboration with leading architects, the firm's landscape and site designs have integrated "programmatic, architectural, and ecological goals." Coen + Partners' interventions "emphasize the materials, textures, and rhythms of our contemporary era and the regions where we work." Recent and current projects include: "Mayo Plan #1," Rochester, MN, which rethought and reformed traditional cul-de-sac development; "Jackson Meadow," a community master plan and residential landscape design in Marine on St. Croix, MN; streetscape design around the "Minneapolis Central Library"; "Albrecht," a residential landscape design in Red Wing, MN; and "Lavin Bernick Center," a campus landscape design at Tulane University, New Orleans.

Coen + Partners work has received numerous awards from the AIA, ASLA, and Committee on Urban Environment, and has been published in The New York Times, Metropolis, and Dwell. Coen+Partners received a Progressive Architecture citation in 2003 for Mayo Plan #1. The firm's work is currently featured in "Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes," a traveling exhibition in collaboration with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Shane Coen received his B.S. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dellekamp arquitectos was founded by Derek Dellekamp in 1999. The Mexico City firm frequently partners with artists, designers, environmental experts, engineers, and builders to shape each project. The firm states: "We try to begin each project without a preconceived idea of its outcome; we deliberately allow for outside influences to shape the design. Our goal is for the work to achieve a wider relevance by adapting and synthesizing these externalities." In 2003, together with Rojkind arquitectos and mxa/Tatiana Bilbao, Dellekamp arquitectos founded MXDF Urban Research Center to develop integrated approaches and investigations for current project sites, as well as the intricate urban reality of Mexico City. Recent and current projects include: the apartment buildings "Alfonso Reyes 58," "CB 30," and "CB 29" all in Mexico City; Villa 14, Ordos, China; "Living in Here," a social housing proposal at the 11th International Exhibition Venice Biennale 2008; "House on a Slope," Mexico City; and "La Capital," a restaurant in Mexico City.

Dellekamp arquitectos is the recipient of a 2008 International Architecture Award and was cited by Wallpaper in 2007 in its article "100 Hottest Architects." The firm's work has been widely exhibited, including at the Venice Biennale; Guangzhou Second Triennale; and the Center for Architecture, NY, and has been published in Dwell, Space Magazine, Arquine, and The New York Times. Derek Dellekamp received his B.Arch from Iberoamericana University, where he now teaches in the Department of Architecture.

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