Environmental Design

  • “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”–Andy Warhol  Time is the abstract currency by which we measure progress and achievement. Unfortunately, its inherent limitations and linear nature frequently
  • ENVD staff structure chart fall 2023
    The Staff Leadership Team was established in July 2022 as part of a staff reorganization during the transition and retirement of Assistant Program Director Peggy Gordon.
  • Aspen Rudolph's Functional Fractal Milabn Micro-Housing
    In spring 2023, four students submitted work to the Milan Affordable Housing Challenge, a design competition part of the Buildner’s architecture competition series.
  • “People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, in the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.”- Robert Rauschenberg
  •   Teaching Associate Professor Dean Bacalzo comes to CU Boulder with more than 18 years of industry experience and 12 years of teaching experience in higher education. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the
  • Schools That Heal book cover
    Claire Latané, professor of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona and author of “Schools that Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind,” will share her work as the second speaker in the Environmental Design Lecture Series this fall.
  • “Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.”- Ikue Mori  Momentum is motivation's most accessible companion--we're talking small, but generative moves. If motivation doesn’t come easily, consider what gives you momentum and the
  • “Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum
  • Topher Downham taking students on a wheelchair tour of the Wonderland Lake Trail
    The Urban Design and Livable City course journeyed on a field trip to North Boulder
  • “The beginning is always today.”– Mary WollstonecraftBeginning is a favorite topic of philosophers and industrialists and a dreaded experience for the neurodiverse rank-and-file. Its attachment to directionality acts to mythify the nature of endings
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