Emmanuel Didier

Instructor

Landscape Architecture Department (CAP)

Email Address:emmanuel.didier@ucdenver.edu

Bio
Research, Publications, Projects

Courses

MOST RECENT COURSES

LA 6607/08 - Advanced Landscape Architectural Design Studio: Land Art Generator Initiative 2014 Design Competition, Copenhagen
LA 5503 - Landscape Architectural Design Studio 3: Transects, Placemaking and Urban Drainage: Weir Gulch, Denver
LA 6711 - Advanced Graphics
LA 6607/08 - Advanced Landscape Architectural Design Studio: Castle Pinckney International Design Competition, ACSA, Charleston, SC
LA 5503 - Landscape Architectural Design Studio 3: Green Streets, Infrastructure and Placemaking; Konza Tech City project, Kenya
LA 6607/08 - Advanced Landscape Architectural Design Studio: Haiti Botanic Garden as Tool for Reforestation and Community Building
LA 5503 - Landscape Architectural Design Studio 3: Transects
LA 6607/08 - Advanced Landscape Architectural Design Studio: Haiti Ideas Challenge, ACSA International Design Competition

Education, Licensure & Certifications

DEGREES HELD

Diplome National d’Arts Plastiques (BA equivalent) – Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts de Marseille, France, 1996
Master of Architecture (University of Virginia) 2004
Master of Landscape Architecture (University of Virginia) 2004

Awards

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2012 Denver Re-imagine Play, National Design Competition, Finalist
2011 Merit Award, Westside Creeks Restoration Master Plan, ASLA Colorado Chapter
2010 ASLA Excellence Awards for Analysis and Planning, Kigali Conceptual Master Plan, Rwanda
2010 Parks Merit Award for Master Planning: Flight 93 Memorial, National Park Service
2009 Honor Award, UPRR Trail Master Plan, ASLA Nevada Chapter
2009 ASLA Honor Design Award, The Dell at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2008 Mason Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, Urban Design Award, City of Fort Collins
2007 Honor Award for Design: Asia Trail at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, ASLA VA Chapter
2004 AIA School Medal for Excellence in Architecture
2004 Benjamin C. Howland Design Competition, Winner, School of Architecture, UVA
2003 Scholastic Award, AIA

RECOGNITION OF WORK BY OTHERS

2011 First Prize – Haiti Industry - Haiti Ideas Challenge, ACSA International Design Competition
2011 First Prize – Haiti Policy - Haiti Ideas Challenge, ACSA International Design Competition

Affiliations

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), member
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), member
American Public Garden Association, member

Research

RESEARCH TOPICS

PLACE + MAKING

Practicing landscape architecture as a creative and generative process that enriches communities and enhances [reveals] the sets of relationships between land, ecological systems and cultural patterns of a given site within its larger context.

PLANNING HEALTH
Promoting landscapes as resilient environments that foster health, well-being, and ecological diversity.

SHARING TERRITORIES
When engaging with a site, we recognize the degrees of transformations and operations applied to such site: re-establishing negotiations between human settlements and natural communities as sets of shared territories.

SCULPTING TOPOGRAPHY
Ground is the [landscape architecture] medium on which we operate to create dynamic environments – 3Dimensional fields that are transformative and engaging.

CULTIVATING STORIES
Creating threads across the landscape; to design is to celebrate social and cultural ‘memories’ of the site; weaving communities and spaces to unique histories.

Environments of focus include urban public realm, public gardens, housing projects, health facilities, and historically modified urban waterways and drainages.

Publications and Presentations

PRESENTATIONS

2014 - LSU AgCenter Botanic Garden Design Workshop. “Tree House Project as Tool for Reforestation and Community Building.” Authored and presented for public event, with garden director Dr. Kuehny.
2014 - The Arboretum at Penn State. “Children’s Garden as Tool for Education”
2012 - American Public Garden Association. “Haiti National Botanic Garden.” In collaboration with William Cinea, author and director.
2011 - Haiti National Botanic Garden International Conference. “Design Process as Community Building.” Authored and presented in Haiti, with Dr. Peter Jackson of Missouri Botanic Gardens, Dr. Don Rakow of The Cornell Plantations, Dr. Sarada Krishnan of Denver Botanic Gardens.

PUBLICATIONS

Didier, Emmanuel, “My Lines.” ROOT v6 Representation, October 2014
Didier, Emmanuel, “Curator’s Comments.” Warren T. Byrd, Jr – … a dot or a line, will be alive. Exhibition at the College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver, October 2013

DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

2014 My Lines. ROOTs
2014 Artisan Framing Gallery
2007 National Zoo. Landscape Architecture Magazine
2006 Modern Public Gardens
2005 James Monroe Birthplace. Landscape Architecture Magazine
2005 Pavilion Gardens: The University’s Uncommon Common Space. The University of Virginia Alumni News.
2003 Half My World, The Garden of Anne Spencer.

College of Architecture and Planning

CU Denver

CU Denver Building

1250 14th Street

2000

Denver, CO 80202

303-315-1000

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Emmanuel Didier

Courses

MOST RECENT COURSES

Education, Licensure & Certifications

DEGREES HELD

Awards

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

RECOGNITION OF WORK BY OTHERS

Affiliations

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Research

RESEARCH TOPICS

Publications and Presentations

PRESENTATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

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