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Kurt Culbertson
Design Workshop, Aspen, Colo.

5:30 p.m., February 4
Shollmier Hall

Kurt Culbertson is principal, shareholder and chairman of the board for Design Workshop, Inc., an award-winning international firm that practices landscape architecture, land planning, urban design and tourism planning. The firm is renowned for using sustainable development and design strategies to reconcile economic needs with the preservation of scenic, cultural and community values. Culbertson took a lead role on two key projects for the firm: the master planning process for Flathead County, Montana, a 3.8-million-acre community experiencing rapid growth, and the design of High Desert, a residential development in Albuquerque, N.M. that uses open space planning to preserve natural drainage systems and views. These and other projects are discussed in depth in the 2007 monograph on Design Workshop, Toward Legacy.

A native of Shreveport, La., Kurt Culbertson received his undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree in business administration in real estate from Southern Methodist University. He has won more than 20 regional and national awards for design work that ranges from secluded sanctuaries to national parks. In addition to design work, he has conducted extensive research on the contributions of German-American landscape designers to the profession of landscape architecture and authored an award-winning biography, The Life and Times of George Edward Kessler.

Kurt Culbertson is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a full member of the Urban Land Institute, where he participates in the Recreation Development Council. He has served as a fellow of Dumbarton Oaks, the Institute of Urban Design, and as chapter chair of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. He currently serves as co-chair of the Cultural Landscape Foundation. He is a registered landscape architect in Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.