not sure what your specific point is,

and well, as long as you are avoiding the mediocrity so prevalent at CU, you can make it work for you, I guess...I woudl stay in Oregon,...hedge your portfolio

I was kind of rambling, sorry. Are you saying that most student work as CU is mediocre, but Oregon will help give me a better portfolio? I know there have been students that get into all kinds of good grad schools (Harvard, Sci-Arc, Cornell, et. so I'm thinking the difference in schools doesn't matter so much as if you care about the work you are doing. Do you think studios in Oregon are really set up so that you would have a better design, or is it just that CU lets in students that may not be quite as committed, and thus some aren't as motivated as others?

I don't know so much about Oregon, but you are encouraged to search the Threads....I know you will find something..

CU Boulder is a good start up program, but as for CU Denver..I would never go there, the Dean is a Tool, and there is no vision for the school....(Some of the Faculty are great though Jensen, Amiri, Mahkela)

.....that is just me. ...but like you said,"if you care about the work you are doing"


Good Luck!

Yeah I'm not thinking about denver for grad, my dad did a crit at the grad school once and (except for keith loftons studio, which he agrees) most of the designs were like libeskind millenium falcons, haha. Why I'm thinking of going back (other than colorado is awesome) is I've got the opportunity to work with julee herdt on her biosips and biomods she just got a huge grant to work with. so doing research like that so hands on seems really appealing.
thanks for the input!
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I concur , Julee is awesome....I worked under her on the Solar Decathlon 2005 Team,..we built that house out of the BioSIPS.

..but she doesn;t teach at Denver much..

UO = a relatively strong undergrad program, and the inverse for the grad. Plenty of sustainible/material stuff if that's what you're about. You're gonna have to be there hella longer than 1 year (3?) to get Oregon residency. UO (and most of the Oregon State University schools) is one of the best values for in-state tuition in the country, and as a result, resident status is difficult to gain, espeically when taking class full-time.

oh thats awesome! I started to get involved on the 2007 project before I left (I went to two meetings I think) but they didn't seem to need much help since the design was already put together and had a good core for the team. yeah im glad she is at the boulder campus, otherwise i wouldn't be able to work with her. theres kind of a strange discrepancy between the two schools, they should really work something out so that they would mesh better, it seems like maybe the deans of both schools are sort of holding back the programs from what they could be, but thats just speculation.

I was on the 2007 team too...I probably met you.

haha wow thats crazy. do you think they're going to do more solar d's or are they gonna take a break? I'd really like to do some design build, but it seems like thats not happening too much at cu since trailerwrap and solar d.