NEWS ROUND-UP SEPTEMBER 2021

HOCKER 2005-2020 LANDSCAPES

Available though Monacelli’s parent company Phaidon

congrats to our recently promoted team members!

2021 TEXAS ASLA AWARDS

HOCKER RECEIVES 5 HONOR AND MERIT AWARDS

Bob Moore Automotive headquarters: -HONOR-
”An ecologically responsive car dealership is a project that reflects a unique category. Courtyard creates some intimate moments for relaxation and respite”.

Lexington: -MERIT-
”The collaboration between Landscape Architect and the Architect was highly successful. It is a challenging house to work with but the landscape solution is responsive. Bedrock and grade change is well navigated, house is softened by the landscape gestures”.

Rick’s Circle: -MERIT-
”The work on existing grove of live oaks is interesting. Exercise in modernism is appreciated. Images describe the approach to the landscape and is successful in being recognized”.

Forty Five Ten & Tasset Eye Park: -MERIT-
”Interesting aspects related to design. The fact that retail landscape was conceived more as a public space is well appreciated”’

Canopy Hotel Austin: - MERIT-
”Admirable concept. Good paving details, creation of intimate spaces and interesting design. Overall architecture is dominant on the project. Private area is captivating”.

-Jury comments

INTERABANG BOOKS. NOV 21st. -2PM

Join Interabang Books and designer David Hocker from the internationally-recognized, award-winning landscape architecture studio Hocker, based in Dallas, Texas. He'll be signing copies of his new book HOCKER: 2005-2020 LANDSCAPES on Saturday, 11/21 at 2:00 pm. Masks will be required and social distancing will be enforced.

Buy the book here: https://www.interabangbooks.com/book/9781580935425

If you can’t attend, call 214.484.4289 to order a signed copy.

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Hocker: 2005–2020 Landscapes is the first monograph to present the work of the Texas-based, internationally recognized, and award-winning landscape architecture studio.
Founded in 2005 by David Hocker, the firm has distinguished itself through projects that are underpinned by an exceptional understanding of hardscape and horticulture, thoughtfully address environmental context, creatively integrate sustainable materials, and sensitively mediate between the built and natural worlds. Equipped with the knowledge necessary to confront complex environmental and programmatic challenges, Hocker approaches each project with the ambition of creating spaces that are simple and restrained, beautiful and engaging, all while cultivating a strikingly contemporary aesthetic.

Reflecting the breadth of the studio’s work, the fifteen projects in Hocker: 2005–2020 Landscapes represent a range of typologies, from stunning residential landscapes to urban parks in locales throughout Texas, on California’s Sonoma Mountain, and in Lyme, New Hampshire. Among them are a weekend retreat north of San Francisco (winner of the 2019 ASLA Award of Excellence), a former power station-turned-contemporary art center (winner of a 2016 ASLA Honor Award), the revitalized Dallas Museum of Art (winner of a 2017 ASLA Texas Chapter Merit Award), a historic synagogue, and a Cistercian abbey and preparatory school.

With nearly 200 captivating photographs, detailed site plans, engaging text, and meditations on Hocker’s approach to material, texture, structure, craft, and layering, this new book offers insight into the elements that make up extraordinary landscapes

HOCKER: 2005 - 2020 LANDSCAPES

We are very excited to share that Hocker: 2005 - 2020 Landscapes is now available for online pre-order through Monacelli’s parent company Phaidon

To celebrate Phaidon’s fall 2020 announcement, they are offering a friends & Family pre-order discount of 20% off through August 31st.
Please use code: MON20 (valid through 8/31)

WESTERN ART & ARCHITECTURE

We are very excited to be featured in the August / September 2020 Western Art & Architecture Magazine!

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2020

We are excited to announce that “HOCKER 2005-2020 LANDSCAPES” will be released in September. This debut monograph, published by Monacelli and featuring writings by Helen Thompson and photography by Millicent Harvey, catalogs 15 projects and highlights themes that are integral to our practice.

2020 TEXAS ASLA AWARDS

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2020 TXASLA Honor Award

"Incredible emphasis on minimal disturbance, on retaining and protecting the trees and the use of previous surfaces! Gutsy use of stone. Water features throughout add sound at certain points while providing water to wildlife and birds."

- Awards Jury

Cistercian Abbey and preparatory school

2020 TXASLA Merit Award

"Lovely - this is a lovely project. the implementation seems to have a sense of materials, planting, use, and ceremony. In a setting such as this the ceremonial procession is APPROPRIATE and warranted." Celebrating the movement from experience to experience while offering opportunities for eddy spaces is artful. beautiful”.

- Awards Jury

2019 ASLA AWARDS

"A finely crafted board-formed concrete wall separates the parking area from the living spaces, and natural stone and weathered steel help bring clarity and consistency to a design for outdoor living that is at once thoroughly elegant, utterly welcoming, and perfectly at home in its stunning natural setting."

- 2019 Awards Jury

TX ASLA AWARDS 2019

TEXAS ASLA HAS RECOGNIZED FOUR HOCKER PROJECTS FOR 2019.
TAKE A MOMENT TO CHECK THEM OUT!

SONOMA MOUNTAIN

Honor Award

Situated on the Sonoma Mountain, this hidden retreat offers amazing valley views and outdoor rooms for entertaining and relaxation.

“the design shows great understanding of existing assets and materials that play well with the borrowed landscape.”

-Jury Comments

Springbrook

Merit Award

”A well conceived solution to a challenging site.”
-Jury comments

CLEARKFORK
R4 FOUNDATION

Merit Award

“The spatial relationships of the outdoor rooms are elegant.”
-Jury Comments

TEMPLE EMANU-EL

Merit Award

A focus on restoration and reclamation prevails throughout this historic site with the intent of fostering connectivity and social interaction among the members.

TX ASLA AWARDS 2018

IDEA Public School Headquarters

Merit Award

A central courtyard serves as the heart of this sustainable campus and features concrete seat wall planters, a condensate-fed fountain, and Moorish-inspired canals that carry drainage as irrigation through the space to the site’s native Tamaulipan Thornscrub beyond.

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Coronado Island

Merit Award

A contemporary residence and its series of garden rooms are wedged between traditional homes on California’s Coronado Island to provide privacy from the street and open views to interior courtyard and roof terrace spaces.

COMING SOON

Sylvan Thirty

Honor Award

With a natural topography evoking native Blackland Prairie of North Texas, Sylvan Thirty’s terraced and sloping site encourages pedestrian activity at the central green, the shaded pedestrian spine, and along the perimeter streets.

READ MORE

INSIDE THE LA STUDIO

INSIDE THE LA STUDIO

Join us during ASLA LA 2017, where
Hocker Design Group was invited to chat
about recent work and finding the
"Spaces between" for your next project.

ULI NORTH TEXAS
HONORS DMA EAGLE
FAMILY PLAZA

The Eagle Family Plaza project has transformed
the north end of the Dallas Museum of Art's
campus into an active open space.  

"AN UNCOMPLICATED DESIGN PROVIDES UNASSUMING
SPACES WHERE USERS OF ALL WALKS OF LIFE FEEL
CONFORTABLE AND WELCOME"

TX ASLA AWARDS 2017

MERIT AWARD, RESIDENTIAL

SWEEPING VIEWS TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY AND VERMONT BEYONG OFFER AN EXQUISITE BORROWED LANDSCAPE FOR THE CAREFULLY SITED HOME ON THE SLOPES NEAR LYME, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

MERIT AWARD, COMMERCIAL

THE EAGLE FAMILY PLAZA AT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART PROVIDES AN ESSENTIAL NEW FRONT COURT AT THE NORTH ENTRANCE OF THE 1984 MUSEUM'S CAMPUS. 

RECENT PROJECT MILESTONES

2016 MARKED A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE IN PROJECT COMPLETIONS FOR HDG. WE TRULY APPRECIATE THE GREAT COLLABORATION WITH CLIENTS, ARCHITECTS, AND OTHER DESIGN PROFESSIONALS THAT HELPED ACHIEVE THESE GOALS.

HDG WINS NATIONAL ASLA HONOR AWARD

Hocker Design Group Wins National ASLA Honor Award

The Power Station has been recognized with a 2016 Honor Award in the General Design Category by the American Society of Landscape Architects. The project exemplifies urban renewal and sustainability through the recycling, restoration, and reconnection of the 1920's Dallas Power and Light substation into a contemporary art destination. 

" A SIMPLE EXECUTION, THE CHOICE OF MATERIALS, THE SENSE OF PLAYFULNESS, AND FUNKY DETAILS MAKE THIS A VERY LIKABLE PROJECT."

-Jury Comments

TX ASLA AWARDS 2016

Bennett Drive and Westover Hills were each awarded 2016 Texas ASLA Merit Awards at the recent conference in Fort Worth, pushing HDG's total state award count beyond 20 in the firm's first 11 years.

Texas ASLA Conference Presentations 2016

THURSDAY APRIL 28TH
VALUE OF RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SPEAKERS: DAVID HOCKER, ASLA & TARY ARTERBURN, FASLA

 

 

FRIDAY APRIL 29TH
ECONOMIC VALUE OF LINEAR LANDSCAPES
SPEAKER: DYLAN STEWART

FRIDAY APRIL 29TH
COTTAGES AT HICKORY CROSSING
SPEAKERS: BIFF STURGESS, ASLA & BRENT A. BROWN, AIA

HDG ACCOLADES

THE SPACES BETWEEN 

Hocker Design Group has been recognized by a variety of organizations and publications over the last few months. The list includes a Portfolio Series within Garden Design Magazine's Spring 2016 issue entitled "The Spaces Between" by Pam Penick.

THE SERENITY OF STRAIGHT LINES

Winner of the 2015 ASLA Award of Excellence, is featured on the cover of Landscape Architecture Magazine's December 2015 Issue.
The issue also includes a twelve page editorial on Cedar Creek, entitled "The Serenity of Straight Lines."

Architizer A+ Award Finalist

Architizer
A+Award Finalist

Cedar Creek was named a finalist in the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. Public voting runs
from March 15 to April 1.


 

Cedar Creek

WINNER OF ASLA’S 2015 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

 

Cedar Creek, a project that weaves several structures discreetly into a wooded 7-acre site at Cedar Creek Lake, has been recognized with an Award of Excellence by the 2015 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Awards jury in the Residential Design category.

This top award acknowledges the collaborative effort between the design team and client that transformed a long-held family property into a legacy weekend destination. The harmony between built structure, site, materiality, and mature trees provides the allure of established existence.

 

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