Environmental Design

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

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

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

Energy defines our experience as living creatures down to a quantum level and yet we often engage with it passively or even reactively. As a result, we expend considerable amounts of energy in ways we don’t realize or even mean to. This leads to a

“Expectation is the mother of all frustration.”– Antonio BanderasWe experience misalignment when our expectations do not match real-time conditions. The biproducts of misalignment—frustration, disappointment, self-doubt, dissatisfaction—cause