RE Seminar: Joe Porter, Design Workshop Founder

        Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010
        When: 4:30-6:30 with reception to follow
        Where: 198 Beck Center
        Attire: Business

The Cornell Real Estate Industry seminar welcomes Joe Porter, Founder, of Design Workshop to campus as the featured speaker for the Cornell Real Estate Industry Seminar on Thursday, February 11, 2010. 

Joe is a founding partner, past president and past chair of the board of Design Workshop, Inc.,  a 100-person firm that provides community planning, urban design, and resort planning and landscape architectural services, with offices across the United States. He is a past board member and president of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and has taught at Louisiana State University, North Carolina State University and served as an adjunct professor in the graduate program in Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado at Denver.

For the past forty years, Joe has worked with new community, natural resource and resort developers to advance the art of community development through design. In January 2006, he joined Montage Holdings as a partner to develop Amaranth—a 10,000-acre new town at Mobile, Arizona, within the City of Goodyear, part of the greater metropolitan Phoenix area.

In 2008, Joe received the ASLA Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects. This is the highest honor awarded by the society and recognizes lifetime achievement in the profession.  He currently enjoys emeritus status with Design Workshop and lives in New York City writing and advising community developers who are striving to create new communities based on the principles of sustainability. 

Prior to to the seminar, please visit the “Spg ’10 Seminars” folder at the Blackboard site for CRP 5370 (Real Estate Industry Seminar) where you will find:
• A copy of the announcement flyer for this seminar
• A link to the Design Workshop website – www.designworkshop.com
• A copy of the Design Workshop Marketing Communications Manual.  This nearly 18 Mb file is worth careful review.  It sets the standard on how to implement an outstanding approach to corporate identify. Design Workshop follows the standards articulated in this manual in all of documents and exhibits that the firm creates. 
• A listing of 142 awards that Design Workshop has received from 1982 through 2008.  These award include three recognitions of their work on the Summerlin master planned community in Las Vegas (one of which is the prestigious Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence), and two awards for their work on Kierland Commons, landmark mixed use development in Phoenix Arizona. Kierland Commons should be on everyone’s list of projects to tour.