The undergraduate degrees in environmental design create leaders prepared to take on challenges facing humanity and our environments through the rigorous development of design solutions. The degrees ...

Samuel Landaverde, a landscape design major, laughs with Nikki Moslehi, a sustainable environmental design major, during their landscape design class visit to West Pond and Stonegate Detention Basin ...

The desire to understand and clarify an environmental ethic is a timeless phenomonon. Plato witnessed the deforestation of the Greek islands, Aristotle understood that human creativity is a part of ...

The various aspects of environmental design require landscape architects to spend many years training and subsequently practicing professionally to develop an acute understanding. Landscaping is, in ...

For the past eight years, I’ve spent every day of my professional life enabling an industry that is responsible for nearly 40% of global climate emissions. I don’t work for an oil or gas company. I ...

The year 1989 was a turning point in Japan's environmental policy. The concept of sustainable development from Our Common Future (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) had taken hold, ...

For the better part of the past decade, the design profession has been in a chaotic period. Confronting a unique mixed salad of conflicts–political, social, economic and environmental–designers have ...

Earlier this month a law enforcement officer in Saskatchewan, Canada contacted me about how he could help an architecture firm plan a new school that, by design, might prevent crime from occurring in ...

When, in 1998, Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposed the “extended mind” concept, which posits that cognitive processes and mental states can extend beyond the boundaries of an individual's brain and ...

Environmental design connects people with our built and natural worlds. Our Program in Environmental Design prepares students to improve the way we design buildings and create environments, shaping ...

Look around you. From the building you live in to the bike path you take to school or work to the farmer’s market you visit to buy healthy food, the built environment touches every aspect of your life ...