Environmental Design

“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

On November 7, ENVD faculty visited the Denver Botanic Gardens with the goal to reinvigorate the CU-DBG connection and to introduce new faculty and leadership.

The University of Colorado Boulder Program in Environmental Design has announced the recipients of the 2023 Environmental Design Alumni Awards. This year’s honoree for the Distinguished Alumni Award is Nancy Blackwood and the Young Designer Award recipient is Thomas Hoffmann.

The University of Colorado Boulder Program in Environmental Design has announced the recipient of the 2022 Environmental Design Alumni Awards. This year’s honoree for the Young Designer Award is Jordan Lockner.

On Saturday, Nov. 11, at the corner of Pearl Street and 13th Street, the laser cut sign read: Student Designed. Sustainably Built.

This spring, the Introduction to Landscape Architecture Studio hosted a design competition. The competition was reviewed by Shihomi Kuriyagawa and Emily Urquhart at the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department. Students who made the list were encouraged to acknowledge the recognition in their portfolio, resume and LinkedIn profiles.