Jeff Lakey established his firm as a landscape architecture and ecological urbanism / urban design practice emphasizing the interrelatedness of people and nature.  He graduated with a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), and with a BS in Liberal Studies with a concentration in landscape architecture from Oregon State University.  He has held senior roles in several practices including Sasaki Associates in Boston, Child Associates in Cambridge, the Perron Collaborative in Portland, Oregon, and RNL in Denver.  Jeff has also worked in academic practice as a lecturer at the Harvard GSD, and also attained tenure with the landscape architecture faculty in the nationally ranked Colorado State University program. His public practice experience includes holding a conservation, planning, and development superintendent position in the municipal parks system in Boulder, Colorado.

To better understand and apply concepts of form, meaning, and nature in his projects, Jeff has traveled extensively in Italy, France, England, the Middle East, and the US, where he documented historic sites, cities, Renaissance villas and gardens, parks, streets, and plazas. 

He is a full member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and participates locally with the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment. Jeff is a registered landscape architect in Colorado, is CLARB certified, and presently serves on the Alumni Council of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

EDUCATION

Master of Landscape Architecture – Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Bachelor of Science Liberal Studies, Concentrating in Landscape Architecture – Oregon State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RNL Senior Associate, Director of Landscape Architecture, Denver, Colorado

City of Boulder Colorado Parks, Conservation, Planning & Development Superintendent

City of Fort Collins Park Planning & Development Senior Park Planner, Fort Collins, Colorado

Shapins Associates, Senior Associate, Boulder, Colorado

Colorado State University, Tenured Associate Professor, Fort Collins, Colorado

The Office of Robert Perron, Landscape Architects, Senior Associate, Portland, Oregon

Child Associates Landscape Architecture, Senior Associate, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Wilsey & Ham, Design Services Manager Portland, Oregon and Foster City, California

Washington County Planning Department, Community Design Planner, Hillsboro, Oregon

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS

Council Record - Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards

Landscape Architect, Colorado #209

Prior registration in California, Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon, Tennessee, Wyoming

Landscape Architecture Uniform National Exam (full pass first attempt)

AWARDS

2000 AIA Colorado – CONTRIBUTION TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AWARD to the Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment (CSU IBE) This award was established to recognize outstanding accomplishments by a non-architect in Colorado for demonstrating exemplary achievements in contributing to the quality of the built environment.

2000 TELLY AWARD (Non-Broadcast Film/Video) to the CSU IBE for the “Presidio Deconstruction” video it produced for the May 6, 1999 “Sustainable Practices: Basic Concepts & Application to Everyday Workplaces” Nationwide Employee Training Teleconference, National Park Service.

1998 CSU Mary Scott Lecture Series – “Teaching and Learning: Challenging Assumptions and Exploring Alternatives” Award to the faculty of the Institute for the Built Environment (CSU).  Directors Dunbar, Albright, Carlile, Kiisk, Lakey, and Leavitt.

Portland, Oregon METRO Regional Government Stormwater Management Award to the Perron Collaborative (formerly the Office of Robert Perron) Jeff Lakey Project Manager, Mentor Graphics Corporate Headquarters Campus, Portland (Wilsonville), Oregon.

WREN Pit Reclamation – Larimer County Board of Commissioners. “Environmental Stewardship” Award.

WREN Pit Reclamation, Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board. “Outstanding Reclamation” and “Regional Cooperation” Awards.

United States of America Botanical Garden Design Competition 1993.  USBG, Washington, DC., Honorable Mention for Ecological Design.

TRAVEL

Photographic collections and slide library developed during my career from travel in Europe, New England, the Pacific Northwest, and the Rocky Mountains.  Notable international sites include Paris, Rome, French Chateau, Italian villas of the Renaissance, Florence, Venice, Pompeii, Monaco, the Loire Valley, Normandy and Caen, Mt. St. Michel, Giverny.  United States locations include St. John USVI, Celebration, Williamsburg, Pepsico and NY modern art galleries, rural New England, Boston, Iowa, Wyoming, Denver, mountain and high prairie landscapes and geological  formations, Santa Fe, prairie forts, battle sites, rivers, vernacular architecture, the Oregon Coast, Portland, and Cal-Earth experimental architecture site.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

UNION PARK “PARCEL F” 216  UNIT HIGH RISE CONDOMINIUMS / LAS VEGAS, NEVADA • Design lead for 20,000 square foot roof level amenity deck including plunge pool, spa, cabanas, extensive walks and seating areas, outdoor grilling, gathering, and water feature amenity spaces. RNL.

AL GHADEER COMMUNITY / ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES  • Design lead for a 20,000 population community’s  landscape architecture including district center urban design, parks, open space trails, playgrounds and plazas, resolving desert landscape and water budgeting issues. RNL.

GHANTOOT GREEN CITY / ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES •  Community design landscape architect for community master planning and urban design on a 30 square mile coastal development project planned between Abu Dhabi and Dubai for 1 million people. RNL.

ROCK RIDGE VILLAGE & SPA RESORT / MORRISON, COLORADO  • Lead landscape architect and site designer for an 80 acre zero carbon community overlooking Denver, Colorado near Red Rocks Park and Amphitheater. RNL.

BEAVERS VILLAGE, WINTER PARK / COLORADO  • Lead site designer for a 200 acre mixed use, riverfront urban development project adjacent to the village of Winter Park, Colorado, one of Colorado’s original ski areas. RNL.

AL RAHA BEACH HOTEL / ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES • Lead landscape architect for resort island development for a mixed us project and major waterfront hotel in Abu Dhabi. RNL.

DUBAI PROMENADE / DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES • Lead landscape architect for a 29-acre master planned high-rise residential community, entertainment attraction and marina on a uniquely scenic waterfront site. RNL.

CAIRO HEIGHTS / CAIRO, EGYPT • Community designer for 800-Acre, 20,000 unit residential project near central Cairo. RNL.

MONROVIA TRANSIT ORIENTED GOLD LINE DEVELOPMENT / MONROVIA, CALIFORNIA • Lead landscape architect and urban design team member for 60 acre urban redevelopment project which included the ecological visionary of AeroVironment, Inc. local to Monrovia. RNL.

ONE STEAMBOAT PLACE PLAZA / STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO • Design lead for 30,000 s.f. public plaza at the base of the ski area constructed in conjunction with premier resort condominium project. RNL.

HORIZON CITY / AURORA, COLORADO • Ecological site designer and lead landscape architect for 503 acre transit oriented development pursuing the nation’s first LEED Neighborhood Development certification. RNL.

EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION, AIRVENTURE AIR SHOW / OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN • Landscape architecture lead and site designer for expansion of weeklong airshow grounds for attendance by 800,000 annually. RNL.

1800 LARIMER STREET ROOF GARDEN / DENVER, COLORADO • Design lead for 15,000 square foot LEED “green roof ” garden over parking garage and office building podium. RNL.

FOSSIL CREEK COMMUNITY PARK / FORT COLLINS, COLORADO • Project Manager for construction administration of City of Fort Collins’ community scale park with a budget of $10M.  Oversight to general contractor including review of payment applications, review of construction tests, coordination of construction schedules, dissemination of public information to adjacent owners and neighborhood users, responsibility for consultant direction and coordination.

HOMESTEAD NEIGHBORHOOD PARK / FORT COLLINS, COLORADO • Project Manager for public outreach, programming, analysis, design, construction document preparation, bidding, award, and construction administration for 6 acre City of Fort Collins neighborhood park. 

CITY PARK LAKE BOARDWALK / FORT COLLINS, COLORADO • Project Designer for ten-foot steel, wood, Trex, and cable structure along City Park Lake in the City of Fort Collins’ only Progressive Era park.

GATEWAY MOUNTAIN PARK / POUDRE RIVER CANYON, COLORADO • Project Manager and Grant Coordinator for the City of Fort Collins’ first park system expansion to foothills and mountain environments.  Included advisory team formation, public outreach and design workshops, ecological inventories, historic design research on water filter plants, site design for roads and park features.

BOHART RANCH ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER / COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO • Sustainability consultant with Linda Kiisk at  a one-day programming and analysis workshop to restore and rehabilitate ranch compound into a quasi-public environmental learning and visitor center for The Nature Conservancy Colorado.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING – ARTIST POINT REDEVELOPMENT • Invited design competition for redesign of overlook area and associated parking.  Shapins Associates.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO at BOULDER – SOUTH CAMPUS / BOULDER, COLORADO • Detailed landscape analysis and land use allocations for 300 acre campus expansion area.  Shapins Associates.

HARTSEL SPRINGS RANCH / PARK COUNTY, COLORADO • Concept development and land use applications for PUD and subdivision for 3571 clustered lots and mixed commercial and resort facilities respecting the forthcoming Park County Strategic Master Plan policies and concepts.  Designed to cluster housing near services and protect 20,000 acres of open space for buffalo ranching. Shapins Associates.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK TRANSIT CENTER / TUSAYAN, ARIZONA • Site and landscape design and the development of sustainable building guidelines for use by the National Park Service’s consultant team including engineers, architects, biologists, and landscape architects.  Roads, access, parking for 4,000 vehicles, pedestrian circulation and way-finding, signage, drainage and runoff control, vegetative rehabilitation, building access, landscape character development, etc. for visitor arrival to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Shapins Associates.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

East Rigden Aggregate Mine Site and Landscape Design Project – Fort Collins, Colorado

University Atmospheric Science Building “Sky Terrace” – Fort Collins, Colorado

Poudre River Trail Master Plan – Windsor to Greeley, Colorado

United States of America Botanical Garden Design Competition – Washington, DC (See Awards)

Kodak Colorado Division Reduced Water-Use Landscape Master Plan – Windsor, Colorado

Johnson Creek Watershed Ecological Restoration Site Selection & Demonstration Projects – Portland, Oregon

Bear Creek Valley Greenway Trail Master Plan and Phase 1 Construction CD’s – Ashland to Medford, Oregon

Mentor Graphics Corporation Headquarters Campus Master Plan and Site Development – Portland, Oregon (See Awards)

World Forestry Center Campus Master Plan and Phase 1 Construction Documents – Portland, Oregon

Whitworth College Stadium & Track and Fields Master Plan – Spokane, Washington

FULL-SEMESTER COURSES TAUGHT

Sustainable Building Practices (Interdisciplinary w/ Architects & Engineers)

Ecology of Colorado / Cultural Landscape Field Studies

Basic Landscape Design and Construction

Designed Landscapes Theory and Criticism

Ecology of Landscapes

Environmental Analysis

Landscape Architectural Planning and Design

Professional Practice

Comprehensive Landscape Design (Senior Thesis)

Urban Design

Methods of Landscape Analysis (Harvard & CSU)

Landscape Architecture Study Tour – Europe (Italy & France)

CSU Masters and Ph.D. graduate student committees

CIVIC SERVICE

American Institute of Architects, Denver Chapter – Committee on the Environment,  2008 –

Downtown Denver Partnership

Poudre Heritage Alliance, Steering Committee Member 2002

Chair - Board of Trustees, Cache la Poudre River Trust

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Alumni Council, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

AIA Denver Committee on the Environment

Current Member, American Society of Landscape Architects

President and other officerships, Oregon Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects