Design-Build, Stormwater Management, Land Conservation and Open Space, Ecology and Restoration, Historic Preservation
Teaching
courses taught
ENVD 1030 - Studio 1: Introduction to Landscape Architecture
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Exposes students to concepts and strategies inherent to the practice of landscape architecture. Students design for biodiversity, climate resilience and human and beyond human physical and mental health within an urban context. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1030, Studio 1: Introduction to Landscape Architecture, taken the first 8-weeks of the semester, followed by ENVD 1040, Studio 1: Introduction to Sustainable Planning and Urban Design, taken in the second 8-weeks of the semester, along with ENVD 1012, Technology 2: Visual Communications, a 16-week class that is taught alongside the two 8-week studios.
ENVD 1040 - Studio 1: Introduction to Sustainable Planning and Urban Design
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Spring 2024
Explores concepts and strategies related to urban planning and design. Students collaboratively develop a design solution to a small-scale problem within an urban fabric using basic skills of analysis and design iteration. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1040, Studio 1: Introduction to Sustainable Planning and Urban Design, an 8-week class which is taken in the second half of the first semester. ENVD 1030, Studio 1: Introduction to Landscape Architecture, taken during the first 8-weeks of the semester, and ENVD 1012, Technology 2: Visual Communications, a 16-week class that is taught alongside the two 8-week studios.
ENVD 1052 - Design and Communication 1
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Fall 2018
Using both lectures and drawing exercises, this class extends understandings of the representational conventions used by the design professions through its introduction to the possibilities offered by emerging digital techniques for the depiction of designed artifacts and environments, allowing students to extend and enhance their understandings of advanced practices for design visualization, representation and communication. Recommended corequisites: ENVD 1004 and ENVD 2001.
ENVD 1102 - Design and Communication 2
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Summer 2018
Using both lectures and drawing exercises, this class extends understandings of the representational conventions used by the design professions through its introduction to the possibilities offered by traditional techniques for the advanced practices for design visualization, representation, and communication. Recommended corequisites: ENVD 1104 and ENVD 2003.
ENVD 1130 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture
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Fall 2020
Building on skills learned from the introductory studio, this course expands the skills and knowledge needed for the practice of landscape architecture. With a focus on resilient design and an exploration through multiple scales, students design ecological systems in an urban context.
ENVD 1976 - Colloquium - Exploring Careers, Research and Practice
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Spring 2019 / Fall 2019
Develops an understanding of the breath of environmental design careers, research and practice, through a series of faculty and professional lectures.
ENVD 2130 - Environmental Design Studio 2
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Spring 2018
Exposes students to a sequence of design investigations that lead to the development of design concepts for critical evaluation and discussion. The intent of this introductory design studio is to expose students to the fundamental design practices that are common to the disciplines of architecture, urban design and landscape design - disciplines that share the responsibility for shaping the designed environment. Recommended corequisite: ENVD 3003.
ENVD 3100 - ENVD Interdisciplinary Design Studio
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Spring 2023
Explores a sequence of investigations that lead to the development of design concepts for critical evaluation and discussion. Students analyze intermediate to advanced design practices that are common to the disciplines of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and product design through an interdisciplinary design project.
ENVD 3134 - History and Theory of Environmental Design and the Medium Scale: Precincts
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Spring 2019
Focuses on design projects not in a building envelope, including landscapes, public and private urban spaces, complexes and similarly scaled design projects. Aspects of architectural and planning thinking are interwoven in a landscape concentration.
ENVD 3300 - Special Topics: Intermediate Design Lab
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in environmental design. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours.
ENVD 4100 - Advanced Design Lab 1
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
ENVD 4363 - Topics in Environmental Design: Physical Factors
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021
Includes such topics as appropriate technology, public policy and natural hazards, organization of the designing and building process, and physical elements of urban development. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
ENVD 4972 - Honors Research Methods and Thesis Preparation
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2022
Prepares students for undertaking a research based honors thesis project in Environmental Design. Students engage with existing literature in the field to understand how research and design projects are conducted, and how their contribution fits within a long tradition of scholarship. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours.
ENVD 4979 - Honors Thesis
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Working with an advisor, students prepare, complete, and defend a research-based honors thesis project, in an area of Environmental Design. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours.
LAND 2004 - History of Landscape Architecture
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Through an examination of distinct historical periods, this course explores the human narrative of reshaping nature through the practice of what is now Landscape Architecture. This course introduces major histories, theories, and sites guiding Landscape Architecture while questioning the Eurocentric perspective that has framed history�s curation. Students will survey humanity�s redesign of natural surroundings such as fields, groves, avenues, gardens, terraces, coastal restorations, riparian ecological systems, national parks, and urban greenways. Recommended corequisite: LAND 2100.
LAND 3100 - Studio 2: Intermediate Landscape Architecture
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Advances the understanding of the practice of landscape architecture. Focusing on concepts such as community engagement and client-based projects and covering topics such as health-focused spaces, ecological adaptability, green equity and gentrification. This studio builds on digital technologies, drawing, and graphic communication skills. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
LAND 3103 - Ecological Planting Design
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Introduces species identification, planting design concepts, and design tools and methods. By framing the course in local ecological systems, the course eclipses the mere fundamentals of planting design resulting in students building a robust plant palette applicable to Colorado and the American West and the knowledge needed to deploy an ecologically responsive design intervention. Students are exposed to planting design methods of placemaking, embracing senescence, planting habitats, and designing for changing climates. Recommended corequisite: LAND 3100.
LAND 4100 - Capstone in Landscape Architecture
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Spring 2022 / Spring 2023
Emphasizes individual project development and well-defined design concepts. Capstone experience introduces critical strategies, advanced design techniques, and representation skills to address pressing issues in landscape architecture.
