Design Workshop, an award-winning urban design, community planning and landscape architecture firm, announced the promotions of seven staff members in its Denver office, including one principal and six associates. Staff members in the Tahoe, Salt Lake City, Aspen and Asheville offices were also promoted.
“We are happy to be able to reward the efforts of our deserving staff,” says Todd Johnson, the firm’s chief design officer. “These people have made major contributions to the advancement of the firm’s work in creating enduring legacies on the land.”
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Top honors went to the leader of Design Workshop’s golf design team, Todd Schoeder, who was promoted to the rank of principal in the Denver office. Recognized for his designs of nationally and internationally known golf courses, Schoeder joined the firm in July 2000 with a background in landscape architecture, project management and construction implementation. He has earned accolades for his design of The Glacier Club near Durango, which opened in 2004. Schoeder holds a master’s degree with highest distinction in landscape architecture and a bachelor’s in mathematics, both from the University of Minnesota, where he won an Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 1996. He is a licensed landscape architect and a member of both the Golf Course Superintendents and the Golf Course Builders Associations of America (GCSAA and GCBAA) and he received a GCSAA Honor Award in 1996. In recent years, Schoeder was featured in the Architect’s Spotlight in Links magazine, while his work has been recognized by Golf, Golfweek, Travel + Leisure Golf, Colorado Golf, Oregon Golf and The Arizona Republic. He is currently at work on projects in North Carolina, Maryland, New Mexico and Colorado.
Denver staff promoted to Associate this year include landscape architects Heath Mizer and Zachary Boggs, photographer Dale Horchner, operations manager Suzanne Miller, project assistant Terri Harrington and analyst Eliot Hoyt.
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Mizer came to work for Design Workshop the first time in 1999, after graduating from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture, where he earned the ASLA Honor Award. He rejoined the firm in January 2005 after earning his master’s of landscape architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he was a winner in an international idea competition for a 21st century park on Chicago’s lakefront. He is currently leading the design of an outdoor retail project in Westminster, a substantial residential project in Boulder and the creation of a green-roof garden for a daytime homeless shelter in Denver. He is also responsible for helping drive the design review process throughout the firm.
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Boggs received his bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture with honors in 2001 from Colorado State University, where he continues to serve as a guest lecturer. He also won a Certificate of Honor from Colorado State University and the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for his work. Before joining Design Workshop, he was the owner of a design/build landscaping firm specializing in residential landscapes. Boggs’ work encompasses the design and planning of several mixed-use communities, including projects in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Washington.
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Horchner came to Design Workshop in January 2002 as the firm's first professional in-house staff photographer. He is a 1991 graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography. His work has been published in Urban Land, Sources + Design, Sunset, Fine Gardening, Sierra, and National Parks magazines and by the Utah Travel Council and Oregon Tourism Commission, among others. He also served as photographer on the firm’s residential garden book, New Gardens of the American West.
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Miller came to Design Workshop in August of 2003 as executive assistant to the president and two shareholders, as well as administrative team leader for the Denver office. In March 2004, she became Denver's operations manager. Besides running the office, she has contributed to several task forces and served as co-chair of the Work/Life Balance initiative. Previously, she worked as an assistant district manager with Farmers Insurance and Financial Services. She attended the University of Colorado at Denver.
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Harrington started with Design Workshop as a project assistant in January 2004, a role she continues along with serving as executive assistant to partner Becky Zimmermann and managing several projects, including Coeur d’Alene Place and the River District, both in Washington state. Since joining Design Workshop, Harrington has been instrumental in developing the project assistant role and is currently involved in training project assistants in the Denver office. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and project management from DeVry University. Projects in which she has been involved include the RidgeGate community south of Denver, the Sun Valley master plan in Idaho, the Cherokee Gates redevelopment in Denver and the Meadows Town Center near Castle Rock.
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Hoyt earned his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Harvard University and is currently at work on his master’s of business administration at the University of Colorado at Denver. He joined the firm’s Denver office in March 2004 to work with the Strategic Services team. Previously, he worked for Ralph Appelbaum Associates, an exhibition design firm in New York; the Arader Galleries in New York, which specializes in rare books and antique prints, and as a consultant to the Berger Collection of British Art at the Denver Museum of Art. His current projects include The Parklands near Denver and Great Valley Corporate Center outside Philadelphia.
Founded in 1969, Design Workshop practices sustainable design and planning on sites ranging from urban infill, parks and open-space projects to brownfield redevelopment and resorts. The firm has been honored with more than 120 awards for design and planning. For more information, visit www.designworkshop.com.