Design Awards


2010 Colorado AIA Honor Award  |  Greensburg Green Neighborhoods, Greensburg, KS

2009 National ASLA Honor Award for Analysis and Planning  |  GEOS Net-Zero Energy Urban Mixed-Use Neighborhood, Arvada, CO 

2009 Colorado Sustainable Design Awards, First Prize (in ColoradoBiz)  |  GEOS Neighborhood, Arvada, CO

2013 Colorado ASLA Merit Award  |  Burke Park Outdoor Classroom, Boulder CO 

2009 ASLA Colorado Land Stewardship Award for Planning  |  GEOS Neighborhood, Arvada, CO

2009 ASLA Colorado Merit Award for Planning  |  GEOS Neighborhood, Arvada, CO

2007 AIA Denver Citation Award  |  Solar Village Prospect, Longmont, CO

2006 AIA Colorado Citation Award  |  GEOS Neighborhood, Arvada, CO

2006 AIA Denver Honor Award  |  GEOS Neighborhood, Arvada, CO

2006 AIA Denver Sustainability Award  |  GEOS Neighborhood, Arvada, CO

2006 AIA Denver Sustainability Award  |  Solar Village Prospect, Longmont, CO

2006 Rocky Mountain News/AIA Denver Architects Choice Award  |  Solar Village Prospect, Longmont, CO

2006 Colorado Renewable Energy Society, Exemplary Buildings Award  |  Solar Village Prospect, Longmont, CO

Publications


Tavel, Michael. “The Culture of Green Neighborhoods.” In In the Pursuit of Living Architecture: Continuing Chrisopher Alexander’s Quest for a Humane and Sustainable Building Culture, edited by Kyriakos Pontikis. Champaign: Common Ground Publishing, 2016.

Brown, G.Z. and Mark DeKay. Sun, Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies. 3rd ed.Hoboken: Wiley, 2014.

Williams, Joanna. Zero Carbon Homes–A Road Map. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Tavel, Michael. “Climate-Responsive Urbanism: Historic Precedents and Progressive Practice.” Journal of the 2011 Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory International Symposium (2012).

“Sustainable Landscapes,” National ASLA website, features Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood, 2011.

Aminoff, Jenise. “Sustainable Communities.” Urban Farm, Fall 2010.

Tavel, Michael. “A Case Study in Patterns for Sustainable Urbanism: The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” Current Challenges for Patterns, Pattern Languages & Sustainability: Journal of the 2009 Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory Symposium (2010).

“Geos Net Zero Energy Neighborhood.” Landscape World. Vol 24Seoul, 2009.

“Colorado Sustainable Design Awards for Sustainable Communities.” ColoradoBiz, November 2009.

Tavel, Michael. “A Short Urban History of Colorado.” Colorado Urbanizing, Colorado Chapter of the Congress of New Urbanism, in association with CNU 17 National Conference, 2009.

“Colorado Design Firms Win National Award for Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” Exposures, ASLA, June 2009.

“New Colorado Neighborhood Aims for Net Zero Energy Use.” UrbanLand Magazine, ULI, June 2008.

“Zero Energy Meets New Urbanism,” Boulder Green Building Journal, Spring 2007.

“A Place in the Sun: Condo complex lauded for funky design that emphasizes solar power.” Rocky Mountain News, 2006.

Tavel, Michael and David Kahn. “Cold War Hangovers: Planning in Prague’s Post-Communist Landscape, in Architecture: Material and Imagined.” ACSA Press, 1997.

Tavel, Michael and David Kahn and Keith Dubinsky. “Open Contact: Phenomenal Experience and “Natural” Processes, in Ecology, Aesthetics and Design.” National ASLA, 1994.

Presentations


“Building Sustainable Net-Zero Energy Neighborhoods in Colorado – Lessons Learned.” (Speaker, AIA Colorado Conference, Breckenridge, CO 2019).

“Master Planning for Net-Zero Energy and Other Intertwined Sustainable Systems.” (Speaker, National AIA Conference, Denver, CO, 2013).

“The Cultures of Sustainable Urbanism” (Speaker, Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory, University of Oregon, Portland, OR, 2013).

“Sustainable Urbanism: Paradigms and Paradox.” (Speaker, University of Denver School of Law,  Denver, CO, 2012).

Guest Speaker, EPA, Denver, Colorado, 2012.

“Sustainable Communities: Paradigms and Paradox.” (Keynote Speaker, AIA Vermont Annual Conference, VT, 2011). 

“Master Planning for Net-Zero Energy and Other Intertwined Sustainable Systems.” (Speaker, National ASLA Conference, San Diego, CA, 2011).

Guest Speaker, Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, Denver, CO, 2011.

“Climate Responsive Urbanism: Historic Precedents and Progressive Practice.” (Speaker, Portland Urban Architectural Research Laboratory, University of Oregon, Portland, OR, 2011). 

“What Can Traditional Urban Neighborhoods Learn from Cohousing?” (Speaker, National Cohousing Conference, Boulder, CO, 2010).

“Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods.” (Speaker, National Cohousing Conference, Boulder, CO , 2010). 

“Sustainable, Net-Zero Energy Urbanism: Issues and Examples.” (Speaker, Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute Annual Conference, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO, 2010). 

“The Planning of Geos: America’s Largest Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” (Speaker, USGBC Colorado Green Building Conference, Denver, CO, 2010). 

“Solar Homes and Living.” 2009 Interview, Green Building Series Colorado, CO, 2010). 

“A Case Study in Patterns for Sustainable Urbanism.” (Speaker, Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab Annual Symposium, University of Oregon, Portland, OR, 2009). 

“The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” (Speaker, Next Generation of New Urbanists, CNU 17 National Conference, Denver, CO, 2009).

 “The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.”(Speaker, Urban Land Institute & DRCOG, Implementing Sustainability Workshop, Denver, CO, 2009). 

“The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” (Speaker, Designing the New West Conference, Bozeman, MT, 2009).

“The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” (Speaker, Designing the New West Conference, Boise, ID, 2009). 

“The Geos Net-Zero Energy Neighborhood.” (Speaker, AIAS National Conference, Denver, CO, 2008).

“The Design of Geos: Integrating Net-Zero Energy and Civic Stormwater with Mixed-Use Urbanism.” (Speaker, APA/ASLA Colorado 2008 Joint State Conference, Denver, CO, 2008). 

“Case Studies in Sustainable Urbanism.” (Speaker, Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Planning, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2008, sponsored by US State Department).