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Design Awards

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

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

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

Publications

Tavel, Michael. “The Culture of Green Neighborhoods.” In In the Pursuit of Living Architecture: Towards a New Building Culture of Humane and Sustainable Environments, 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.

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

Presentations

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

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

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