Landscape Architecture

At the end of each fall semester, Environmental Design (ENVD) hosts a building-wide exhibition of design and research produced by students and faculty.

Sticky metal playgrounds and hot asphalt. Bare patches of dirt on browning soccer fields. Limited shade with no space for solitude and quiet. A small cluster of trees - sometimes. This is what tends to come to mind when we think about a typical schoolyard. Soon, however, six Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) schoolyards may receive a green makeover.

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) conference was held Nov. 11-14, 2022, in San Francisco. There was a record turnout in attendees from Environmental Design.

Third-year landscape architecture students take on designing interpretive education opportunities along the Marshall Mesa (and adjacent) trailhead that will be presented to OSMP and folded into the future designs for those trailheads.

The senior landscape architecture capstone studio, Landscape as Agent: Climate Resilience (LAND 4100) launched the spring semester with a research paper that covered a specific theme of climate change, along with a graphic collage that represented their research.

Students in the landscape architecture studio Green Schoolyards: Playgrounds of the Future partnered with Lafayette Open Spaces and Escuela Bilingüe Pioneer Elementary to host a soft opening of the new Lafayette Outdoor Classroom.

The landscape architecture studio will be collaborating with the City of Longmont’s senior planners and landscape architects to develop masterplan schemes for a future community park in southwest Longmont.

Students in Instructor Emily Greenwood’s landscape architecture studio, have developed work for their first assignment.

This summer, students in the intro to landscape architecture studio developed their sketching skills as well as a design intervention proposal for Boulder’s Central Park.

Environmental design student Ben Pesso was selected to continue his studio work with Mary Mattingly, the CU Art Museum’s artist-in-residence, on a project in New York City.