Site visit to Mesa Trail

Site Visit to Saint Malo's Chapel and Mesa Trail

Sept. 27, 2018

On September 4, Professor Ping Xu and her landscape design and feng shui class held a site visit to Saint Malo's Chapel on the Rock in Allens Park, Colorado. The students visited the impact area of the 2013 debris flows that were initiated from MT Meeker, which is five miles...

Jade Polizzi by Greg Blanpied in 2017

Five Questions with Senior Instructor Jade Polizzi

Sept. 17, 2018

ENVD sophomore Aubrey Prestwich sat down with Senior Instructor Jade Polizzi to get the inside scoop with five questions from the Environmental Design student body.

ENVD 3100 Take Trip to Elitch Gardens for Site Visit

ENVD 3100 Take Trip to Elitch Gardens for Site Visit

Sept. 17, 2018

On September 7, students in ENVD 3100, a city planning studio, met with Rhys Duggan and Chris Wood, principals with Revesco Properties and the owners and developers of Elitch Gardens in downtown Denver. Views from the observation tower gave students a unique perspective for their class case study, which is...

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies

Lama Foundation Praxis and Design Partnership Featured in New Publication

Sept. 17, 2018

Senior Instructor Jade Polizzi's design-build praxis, Design in Partnership with the Lama Foundation, has been featured in the recently published Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED academic Case Studies. See press release below: New Book presents Public Interest Design Education Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies,...

ENVD 3100 Explore the RiNo Art District in Denver

ENVD 3100 Travel to RiNo Art District in Denver for Site Visit

Sept. 17, 2018

On Friday, September 14, ENVD 3100 sections 011 and 012, taught by Assistant Professor Danielle Rivera and Lecturer Alana Wilson went on a site visit to the RiNo Art District in Denver. The classes walked through the community and met with Tracy Weil of the RiNo Art District. Students in...

ENVD 4100 and 4340 Studios Take Trip to Santa Fe

ENVD 4100 and 4340 Studios Take Trip to Santa Fe

Sept. 12, 2018

The weekend of September 7-9, Neal Evers’ 4100 architecture studio and Siobhan Brooks’ 4340 landscape architecture studio traveled to Santa Fe to visit Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return , an immersive art experience produced by the artists’ collective and Game of Thrones creator George RR Martin. This semester they...

Georgia Lindsay

Colloquium Series Q&A with Georgia Lindsay

Sept. 12, 2018

Environmental Design sat down with Senior Instructor Georgia Lindsay for a Q&A before her Research Colloquium presentation Friday, September 14. Tell me about yourself. I did my undergraduate here at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø. I was an art and psychology double major, and people used to always ask me...

Photo by Paul Aiken, Daily Camera.

Â鶹¹ÙÍø-Dushanbe Teahouse gets refresher from visiting Tajik artist

Sept. 5, 2018

Now, through the end of January, Marufjon Mirakhmatov, a Tajik artist who is the grandson of a master woodcarver who helped assemble the Teahouse once it was shipped here as a gift to Â鶹¹ÙÍø from the people of Dushanbe, is in Â鶹¹ÙÍø leading a restoration project that is truly a labor of love. Article by Daily Camera.

Comuna 8, Medellín, Colombia. Photo by Kate Mytty.

Introducing: MIT CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø Urban Informality Interest Group

Sept. 5, 2018

Originally posted on Medium.com We are excited to announce the launch of the Urban Informality Interest Group. This was inspired by our dialogue at the MIT World Real Estate Forum earlier this year and is a collective effort of MIT Professor Dennis Frenchman, UC-Â鶹¹ÙÍø Assistant Professor Jota Samper, MIT Ph.D...

Exterior of Environmental Design Building.

Environmental Design Building Updates

Aug. 16, 2018

If you are returning to ENVD from a summer away, you may notice a few changes in the building. The following updates were made possible by the coordination efforts of Betsy, Peggy, Emily Lawrence and Amanda. New monitors are on order and will be installed on each floor of the...

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