Concrete Is Fluid

Sarah Cowles is an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture at USC. Her research engages dialogue between representation and material processes in the making of landscapes at three nested scales: regional identity, disturbed sites, and the garden. Prior to her appointment at the University of Southern California, she was Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, where she co-organized (with Dorothée Imbert) the 2016 international symposium “THIS IS A TEST” on the role of testing and prototyping in contemporary landscape architecture practice. She has held visiting positions at Washington University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Tbilisi State Academy of the Arts in the Republic of Georgia. Her exhibitions include The Elusina Lazenby Experimental Forest (Knowlton School, 2016), The Salt Mountain Disturbance (Artisterium, Tbilisi, 2010) and Elegantly Wasted (MASS MoCA, 2012). In practice with Tom Leader Studio, she coordinated design