John Prosser

Biography: John M. Prosser Professor Emeritus/Architect/Urban Designer University of Colorado College of Architecture & Planning Denver, CO In August 2008 John Prosser retired after 40 years as Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and now in semi retirement still maintains his private practice begun in 1969. He has served as Dean of the College and has taught at other universities throughout the nation, as well as Oxford Brooks in England and the National University of Ireland in Dublin where he was a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute Ireland in 2003 and 2004 and a visiting scholar in 2003, 04, 05, 07, 08 and 09, all fall terms. Mr. Prosser served as a planning and architectural consultant for a number of projects including the Denver International Airport environs (private sector), the Denver Technological Center and the Denver Botanic Gardens. From 1981 until 2005 he chaired, and still serves on the system wide University of Colorado Design Review Board, which assesses all CU projects on nine campuses, in six vegetation life zones. Currently Mr. Prosser is also a member of three Federal (NREL), local and private architectural review committees. . His practice has covered numerous other large-scale diverse projects over four decades. His 1970 plan for Auraria Higher Education Campus resulted in the retention of the historic Ninth Street Park, St. Cajetans', Tivoli, and Emmanuel Chapel. Similarly, he has developed strategic planning concepts for Graland Country Day School, Fountain Valley Prep School, Pueblo Community College, Fort Lewis College and Denver University. One especially unique project was his historic preservation plan for Colorado College. For 30 years, he managed environmental impact assessments for projects of a few acres up to 150 square miles. In July of 2001 he served on an Urban Land Institute (ULI) advisory services panel for the redirection of the outreach Kennedy Space Center resear