Faculty + Staff
John Koepke
Associate Professor
- BLA, University of Minnesota
- MLA, University of Washington
John Koepke’s strong interest in environmental science led him to collaborate with other College of Design faculty on the Ecological Design Education Project, which studied how to incorporate ecological literacy and thinking into the design curriculum of the college. This project led to the College of Design Living Labs Consortium and Project, whose mission is to investigate and promote ecological innovation in the teaching, research and practice of landscape architecture, architecture and interior design.
Recent Publications
- From Pits and Piles to Lakes and Landscapes: Rebuilding Minnesota’s Industrial Landscape Using a Trans-disciplinary Approach, special issue of Landscape Journal [in progress]
- My Kind of Design, commissioned foreword to a book by Grant Jones, Jones and Jones, Architects and Landscape Architects, Center for American Places [at press]
- Harmony in the Cahokian World [with George Holley], in A Deep-Time Perspective: Studies in Symbols, Meaning, and the Archaeological Record, Papers in Honor of Robert L. Hall, eds. by Melvin Fowler and John Richards
- Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Interpretation [with Rinita Dalan, George Holley, Harold Watters, William Woods] Northern Illinois University Press
Professional Experience
- Jones and Jones Landscape Architects
Recognition
- Outstanding Administrator Award, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
- Illinois State Historical Society’s Book of the Year Award for Envisioning Cahokia: A Landscape Interpretation
- Cannon Valley Trail Master Plan. Merit Award, Minnesota Chapter of the ASLA
Courses
- LA5202: Lake Itasca landscape Analysis
- LA5203: Ecological Dimensions of Space Making
- LA5204: Landscape Ecology