Discipline: Architecture

Cathleen Corlett

Discipline: Architecture
Region: Eugene, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006

Cathleen Corlett has been a licensed landscape architect since 2002. She holds an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon. In 2011, Corlett founded Corlett Landscape Architecture, a residential public and non-profit consulting, design and project management firm. Through her work, Corlett seeks to connect people to place, using landscape architecture as a tool for connecting people to the outdoors, raising awareness of their surrounding environment, and making cities more vibrant and livable.

Corlett is a member of the American Planning Association, American Trails board of directors and Oregon Hardy Plant Society. Her honors include the Charles Funk Award for the Sierra Club Oregon Chapter, second place in the Historic American Landscapes Survey, and artist residencies at MacDowell, Taliesin and Oregon State University.


Studios

Cheney

Cathleen Corlett worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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