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
The third of four introductory studios exposes students to concepts and strategies inherent to the practice of landscape architecture. Students analyze and design ecological related systems within an urban context in this immersive studio environment.
ENVD 1040 - Studio 1: Introduction to Planning and Urban Design
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Spring 2024
The fourth of four introductory studios in which students learn 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.
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
Inspiration in the design profession can be found through a series of faculty and professional lectures. Students develop an understanding of the breath of environmental design careers, research and practice.
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
This studio exposes students to a sequence of design investigations that lead to the development of design concepts for critical evaluation and discussion. Students will explore fundamental design practices that are common to the disciplines of architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and product design. Students will work on a project that provides an opportunity to integrate the various disciplines of environmental design. ENVD 3100 fulfills the Pick One studio requirement for ENVD majors. It does not fulfill the ENVD major-specific 3100 studio requirement. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours.
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 18 total credit hours.
ENVD 4363 - Special Topics: Physical Factors in Environmental Design
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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.
ENVD 4972 - Honors Research Methods and Thesis Preparation
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2022
To prepare students for undertaking an independent research or design project in Environmental Design, this asks students to engage with existing literature in the field. Students will understand how research and design projects are conducted, and how their own work fits within a long tradition of scholarship. Department consent required.
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
Working with an advisor, students prepare, complete, and defend an honors thesis project, either written or creative.
LAND 2004 - History of Landscape Architecture
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
This course evolves through three phases of history. First, ancient history and the roots of the human relationship to nature and the origins of the �Anthropocene�. Second, early history when shifting perspectives on the human relationship to the built and natural environment impacted design. Third, modern thinking in landscape architecture, take a glimpse into where we are heading, while maintaining a connection to the thousands of years that have brought us here. 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
Building on skills established in Studio A, this studio advances the understanding of the practice of landscape architecture by incorporating projects through community engagement or other real-world applications. This studio builds on the digital technologies and drawing and graphic communication skills. Repeatable for 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
The course 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
Building on skills established in 2nd Studio, the studio refines the student's practice of landscape architecture through a design-build project or other applied, hands-on design project. The studio introduces critical concepts, strategies and advanced technical skills in order to address the pressing issues that can be addressed through landscape architecture.
