Kurt Culbertson

Biography: Kurt Culbertson Kurt Culbertson is Chairman of Design Workshop, an urban design, land planning, and landscape architecture firm with offices in Aspen, Colorado, and five other cities. Mr. Culbertson received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Louisiana State University and a Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis in Real Estate from Southern Methodist University. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Landscape Architecture from the Edinburgh College of Art. Mr. Culbertson is a former Fulbright scholar, and a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Institute of Urban Design. He is a past Chapter Chair of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Young Presidents Organization. Kurt has a particular focus on application of comprehensive approach to sustainable development which seeks measurable economic, environmental, community, and aesthetic outcomes. He has received 37 national and state awards for his work, the most recent of which is the Pierre L’Enfant Award for International Planning from the American Planning Association. His research interests include the contribution of German-Americans and Scandinavian-Americans to the development of landscape architecture in the United States, the use of evidence-based approaches in planning and design, and the application of historical ecology to the challenges of shrinking cities.