Chloe Hawkins (BFA, Oberlin College 2003; MLA, University of Virginia 2010), is the Founder of Cohort, a Lecturer at and alumni of the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture (MLA 2010) and a practicing visual artist. 

Chloe’s practice operates from the belief that impactful and healthy landscapes emerge from the communities that make places unique - people, plants and materials and their interplay with their deep histories and imagined futures. She believes the best design comes from a collective process where people are able to both dialog and get their hands dirty. 

Chloe brings years of experience working with interdisciplinary teams on design planning through construction and infuses the necessary nuts and bolts of landscape architecture with a spirit of improvisation, play, and humor. As a designer and teacher, she draws on her background in visual arts and sculpture to use drawings and on-site field work as essential tools for sparking connection, imagination and collaborative space-making.

Prior to founding Cohort, Chloe worked for internationally renowned design firms including with Julie Bargmann at D.I.R.T. studio and at Siteworks Studio and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Chloe has designed landscapes ranging from immersive gardens in campus and home landscapes, new and adapted public parks in the American South and New Zealand, community spaces within post-industrial wildlands and botanical gardens that aim to inspire environmental stewardship through the experience of the beauty of native plants.

In her own home, Chloe tends a number of evolving experimental gardens where she works with plants to recall the gardens and floodplain forests of her childhood in Kentucky and feel rooted in her current setting in the Piedmont Ecoregion of Virginia.