From schools to streets: How the pandemic is helping us reimagine built environments

From schools to streets: How the pandemic is helping us reimagine built environments

Nov. 18, 2021

What opportunities exist to rethink how we live to not only combat COVID-19 but also address climate change, human health and other issues? The Program in Environmental Design is tackling these questions through innovative projects that do everything from improve spaces for outdoor learning to rethinking streetscapes.

Assistant Professor Jota Samper in TEDxCU talk

TEDxCU: How informal settlements (slums) will reshape the world

Oct. 30, 2020

Environmental Design Assistant Professor Jota Samper recently gave a talk on TEDxCU. The talk focuses on Professor Samper's collaborations with students and communities alongside his research on informal Settlements.

ENVD Assistant Professor to co-guest edit MAS Context with University of Miami Assistant Professor

ENVD Assistant Professor to co-guest edit MAS Context with University of Miami Assistant Professor

Sept. 4, 2020

In July, Environmental Design Assistant Professor Shawhin Roudbari was invited to co-guest edit issue 33 of MAS Context with Germane Barnes, assistant professor and director of The community, Housing and Identity LAB (CHIL) at the University of Miami.

Liberatory Vigilante. © Photo by Blair Reid. Courtesy of the authors.

ENVD assistant professor to guest edit issue 33 of MAS Context

July 13, 2020

Assistant Professor Shawhin Roudbari will guest-edit the next issue of MAS Context, collaborating with Germane Barnes, assistant professor and director of The Community, Housing & Identity Lab (CHIL).

ENVD instructor donates homemade masks

ENVD instructor donates homemade masks

April 13, 2020

While teaching remotely, Environmental Design Instructor Betsy Johnson and her family are volunteering their time to help others during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tidal Basin photograph by Sam Kittner

Five design firms join to reimagine the National Mall Tidal Basin

Nov. 4, 2019

Environmental Design Associate Professor Susannah Drake, founding principal of DLANDstudio is one of the five landscape architecture firms working to shape the future of the National Mall Tidal Basin.

2019 AIA Colorado Annual Design Awards

2019 AIA Colorado Annual Design Awards

Sept. 17, 2019

Last Friday, Instructor Neal Evers and HMH Architecture + Interiors Principal Architect Harvey Hine, an ENVD alum, were awarded with an AIA Colorado Award of Distinction for their Modern Stair design. The Modern Stair design was created specifically for the Sloan’s Vista house.

Planning and urban design global seminar wins faculty 2019-20 outreach award

Planning and urban design global seminar wins faculty 2019-20 outreach award

Sept. 17, 2019

Program in Environmental Design Assistant Professor Jota Samper was recognized for a 2019-20 Faculty Outreach Award for the Medellin Global Seminar: Colombian Displaced Communities: Planning and Urban Design.

The New Architecture: Sky Parks, Tidal Pools and ‘Solar Carving’

ENVD Associate Professor in The New York Times article "The New Architecture: Sky Parks, Tidal Pools and ‘Solar Carving’"

Sept. 13, 2019

ENVD Associate Professor Susannah Drake was featured in a recent New York Times article. Drake, the founder of Brooklyn's DLANDstudio, was highlighted in a fall preview featuring design projects that suggest "that hard barriers between the designed environment and the natural one are softening–maybe for good." Originally posted on nytimes.com.

“We Are Precarious Workers,” June 22, 2019. Courtesy of The Architecture Lobby. Photograph by author.

ENVD assistant professor publishes essay: "Three Degrees of Ethical Engagement: a Manifesto for Architects"

Sept. 11, 2019

Environmental Design Assistant Professor Shawhin Roudbari recently published the essay "Three Degrees of Ethical Engagement: A Manifesto for Architects" on PLATFORM. PLATFORM is an open digital venue for exchanging new ideas about working with, researching, teaching and writing about buildings, spaces and landscapes. Originally posted on platformspace.net.

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