Michael David Tavel
Architects at Osage St, Denver, CO

Senior Instructor, Executive Committee, Program in Environmental Design at University of Colorado Boulder, Principal at Michael Tavel Architects

Architecture & Planning

University of Colorado Boulder - Boulder, CO since Aug 2010 - Senior Instructor, Executive Committee, Program in Environmental Design Michael Tavel Architects - Denver, CO since May 2003 - Principal Van Meter Williams Pollack - Denver, CO 2002 - 2003 - Project Manager Wolff Lyon Architects - Boulder, CO Aug 1997 - Apr 2002 - Senior Associate University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning - Denver, CO Aug 1991 - Aug 1999 - Instructor and Lecturer Hoover Berg Desmond - Denver, CO 1993 - 1996 - Architect Mark Mack Architects - San Francisco, CA May 1989 - Aug 1991 - Designer Christopher Alexander and the Center for Environmental Structure - Berkeley, CA 1987 - 1991 - Apprentice Heinz Tesar Architect - Vienna, Austria Mar 1990 - May 1990 - Designer Kuby Brothers Winslow Architects - New York City, NY Dec 1985 - Aug 1986 - Intern Architect The Collaborative Inc - Toledo, OH 1983 - 1985 - Intern Architect

University of California, Berkeley 1986 - 1989
Master of Architecture University of Toledo 1981 - 1985
Bachelor of Science (BS), Interdepartmental Studies University of Toledo 1981 - 1985
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Fine Arts, Sculpture

Advocating for, living in, and walking in, urban neighborhoods. Hiking. Fine Arts.

2013 July, Scholar in Residence, Zentrum Fur Keramic, Berlin 2011 Keynote Speaker, AIA Vermont Annual Conf 2011 Speaker, ASLA National Conf 2010 Colorado AIA Honor Award 2009 National ASLA Honor Award 2009 Colorado Sustainable Design Award, First Prize 2009 ASLA Colorado Land Stewardship Award 2007 Honorable Mention, AIA Colorado “Young Architect of the Year” 2006 AIA Colorado “Citation Award” 2006 AIA Denver “Honor Award” 2006 AIA Denver “Sustainability Award” 2006 RM News / AIA Denver “Architects Choice Award” 2006 Colorado Renewable Energy Society, “Exemplary Building” 2005 National AIA/HUD Award for “Mixed-Use Mixed-Income Project” 2002 Colorado Housing Now “Eagle Award" 2002 NAHRO Award Excellence in Housing Design 2000 First Prize, Aspen Mass Affordable Housing Comp (Wolff Lyon w/ Civitas) 1990 Progressive Architecture Design Award, (Mark Mack Architects, San Francisco) 1989 Award for Masters’ Thesis UC, Berkeley 1989 Top Prize in Architecture, UC Berkeley

2013 Speaker, National AIA Convention