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This introductory course introduces students to BIM modeling through the Revit platform. Fundamental skills will be taught to help students understand technical and practical aspects of this software to both support academic projects and gain early exposure to expectations in professional practice. Emphasis throughout the course will be placed on the most successful ways to utilize this powerful program whether in early design stages or later stage production. This course is not intended to evaluate design skills but advance knowledge of the presented software.

In this course, students weave together digital tools used in the landscape design and city planning profession into a cohesive project. Emphasis is on the exploration of design, 3D modeling, analysis, and how to use and present data. Tools covered include ArcGIS (mapping), Microsoft Excel (data analysis), InDesign (layout), and SketchUp (3D modeling). This self-paced, asynchronous class will be taught through a combination of pre-recorded tutorials and virtual class sessions for collaboration and discussion.

Spring 2026 (16 week)��MW 1:25pm-5:45pm

This innovative course reimagines urban traffic fatality protocols through real-world, problem-driven design. Collaborating with Spokane, WA, students develop strategies to improve municipal responses, including media, policy, VR visualization, crash investigation, and mobile infrastructure design. Structured in three modules, the project emphasizes interdisciplinary teamwork, community engagement, and impact assessment. Open to all CU-Boulder majors, it offers practical skills in urban safety, policy, and street-level prototyping to confront a nationwide transportation crisis.

Teaches the student fundamental to intermediate skills and design practices around 3d modeling using Rhino 3d software. 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical representation of any three-dimensional surface or object (either inanimate or living) via specialized software that can be used for representation, calculations, fabrication, visualization etc.. Learning strategies around how to see your world in “3d models” and learning when/how/where to use these techniques will make students confident designers and marketable.

Please contact Nate Jones for more information and to register.

Our charge: With roughly two-thirds of the global population expected to live in urban areas by 2030, the sustainability of the infrastructure required to serve those residents will become paramount. For decades, using the term `infrastructure¿ conjures up boring images of water sanitation projects, bridges, and roads¿domains left mostly to civil engineers and urban planners. But this landscape is quickly changing. Advancements in technology and an imperative for climate resilience are prompting a new generation of urban infrastructure¿all aimed to allow residents to access the goods and services they demand on a daily basis¿in ways that support the sustainability of the planet.

The course is an exploration of topics related to graphic design and visual communication as they relate to constructing your own professional identity. Topics will include layout, composition, fonts, color theory, printing, publication and web-based presence. We will work on visual communication strategies to develop graphically compelling and clear portfolios in both web-based and print formats for use in applications for graduate school and professional practice. A comprehensive and fluid approach to the use of the Adobe Creative Suite for all design tasks will be stressed.

• Comprehend the fundamentals of graphic design and their application in visual communication.
• Be able to speak about visual communication in your own language and evaluate critically the visual design surrounding us.
• Construct a comprehensive personal and professional identity through print and digital mediums.
• Be able to synthesize the inherent strengths of various different software tools into a fluid digital design process.

Explores how projects are conceived, designed, documented, and built. Students will examine the complexities of the design and construction process, including industry standards, project delivery methods, and practice management. Emphasizing problem-solving and real-world applications, the course prepares students to navigate the challenges of translating ideas into built environments.

Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design.

Spring 2026 (16 week)��TTH 9:30am-12:00pm

Design-Build Interior Systems:

Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design.

Spring 2026 (16 week)��F 9:00am-2:00pm

Human Powered Vehicle:

Teaches the student basic to intermediate concepts, strategies, materialities and lots of other interesting things around the topic of digital design and fabrication. In the last decade or so, DD+F (Digifab) has evolved from a novel, boutique approach towards design to a critical component of design + making especially in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Product design. Students will use 3d modeling (Rhino) and parametric plugins( i.e. Grasshopper) to investigate new ways of making using 3d printing, CNC machining, laser cutting and other digital fabrication processes. Learning strategies and concepts around DigiFab as well as looking at materiality in digifab and learning when/how/where to use these techniques will make students confident designers and marketable.

Course Requisites: This course is intended for upper-level undergraduate students only (Juniors and Seniors). To be eligible to enroll in this course, you must have completed 57-180 credits.

Addresses variable topics in the relationship of human experience and behavior to the built environment, e.g., social research methods in environmental design.

Spring 2026 (16 week)��TTH 2:00pm-3:15pm

Forensic Design:
Forensic and speculative design methods enable designers to tackle pressing social and environmental problems. You will use advanced representational strategies to (1) investigate ways our designed environments contribute to injustices and (2) conceptualize speculative design solutions. You will practice advanced spatial analysis skills, develop interdisciplinary media techniques (e.g. physical and digital modeling), and gain conceptual insights about design, society, and environment. Blending theory with design, we will interrogate and reimagine our designed environments.

Provides an advanced seminar on new technologies and issues of professional practice in the environmental design professions.

Spring 2026 (16 week)��TTH 3:30pm-4:45pm

Lassoing the Robots:
In this exploratory course students will learn to skillfully harness the powers of Artificial Intelligence via both image and text generation as a multifaceted tool in a generative design process.�� Additionally, each student will use AI to create critical design fictions aimed at igniting discourse on pressing environmental and social topics.

Please contact Nate Jones (nathan.p.jones@colorado.edu) for more information and to register.

Please contact Nate Jones (nathan.p.jones@colorado.edu) for more information and to register.​