Ms. Charlet is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Environmental Design Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she guides the Material Library, heads up the Biomodernity Lab and teaches architecture and sustainable urban design studios across all levels. Her research is situated at the experimental intersection of transformative design strategies, biogenic material systems and the environment. Ms.Charlet holds a Master of Architecture from the Parsons School of Constructed Environments, with a Sustainable Strategies Post-Graduate Certification, and a Master of Science in Design and Urban Ecology from the Parsons School of Design Strategies. She has received numerous global grants, fellowships and artist residencies including the 2025 Dr. Milka Bliznakov prize at Virginia Tech, for “Drawing the Unseen: Architectural Narratives of Women Who Shaped Space” where she is embedded within the International Archive of Women to develop a new drawing project. Ms. Charlet has recently presented her research 'Undoing Permanence: Biogenic Material Systems and the Post-Industrial Reimagining of Architecture' at the 2025 AHRA conference in Liverpool Uk and curated the exhibition Biogenic Futures: Women Shaping Material Ecologies at the CU Boulder Art Museum, with a related symposium “Intersections and Collaborations: Unpacking Material Vernaculars of Environmental Design Across Disciplines” scheduled for March 2026. She is concurrently developing a documentary film titled Material Rebels a documentary film that explores the systemic underrepresentation of women in regenerative material design. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, the Center for the Built Environment, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, and is represented in multiple international museum and private collections.
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Biomodernity, Green Building, Social Justice, Urban Design, Ecology and Restoration in Design, Environmental Justice, Public Lands, Urban Transformation, Architecture, Urban Greenness, BioMaterials
ARCH 2100 - Studio 1: Foundations of Architecture
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Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Provides a framework for students to learn the basic strategies and techniques of architectural design. This project-based studio focuses on concepts of medium-scale building design, site, and climate. Through multiple design exercises, students learn how these factors assist in shaping our buildings. Recommended corequisite: ARCH 2115.
ARCH 3100 - Studio 2: Intermediate Architecture
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Fall 2024
Emphasizes the interaction of form, programmatic use, human behavior and context in creating structure. May include a client-based community engaged project, real world applications, and result in a physical product. Students work across analog and digital platforms to produce designs that provide solutions to contemporary challenges. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Recommended corequisite: ARCH 3114.
ENVD 1002 - Technology 1: Applications for Environmental Design
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Summer 2024
Introduces technological competencies to support studio work including design representation and presentation. Students develop fundamental competencies in sketching, graphic design, file management and 3D modeling. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1002, Technology 1: Applications for Environmental Design is a 16-week class that is taught alongside the following two 8-week studios. ENVD 1010, Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design, taken the first half of the semester, followed by ENVD 1020, Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture, taken in the second half of the semester.
ENVD 1010 - Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design
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Fall 2023 / Summer 2024
Introduces students to concepts and techniques related to the design of products at a human scale. In an immersive project-based studio environment students develop the foundation of design communication and thinking through a series of hands-on projects with physical outcomes. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1010, Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design is taken the first 7-weeks of the semester, followed by ENVD 1020, Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture, taken in the second 7-weeks of the semester, along with ENVD 1002, Technology 1: Applications for Environmental Design, a 14-week class that is taught alongside the two 7-week studios.
ENVD 1020 - Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture
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Fall 2023
Introduces students to strategies and techniques of architectural design and communication in a hands-on studio environment. Students explore architectural form-making and design opportunities through an iterative design process culminating with a small-scale architectural project that responds to environmental, contextual and programmatic needs. Course is part of a co-requisite sequence: ENVD 1020, Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture, an 7-week class which is taken in the second half of the first semester. ENVD 1010, Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design, taken during the first 7-weeks of the semester, and ENVD 1002, Technology 1: Applications for Environmental Design is a 14-week class that is taught alongside the two 7-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 1140 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Planning and Urban Design
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Fall 2023
Through a small-scale urban planning and design project, students explore solutions to challenges in dynamic urban systems. Builds on knowledge and skills gained in the introductory studios to explore the human and environmental dimensions of intertwined systems within the built environment.
ENVD 2003 - Ecological Systems in Design
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Fall 2024
Introduces the essential principles and concepts of ecology as they relate to the design and understanding of the built environment. Students explore interactions between people and nature, the design of resilient ecological systems and ways that the built world is influenced by its environment.
