Design Workshop Adds Senior Project Manager to Aspen Office

5 April 2011

Aspen – Tunte has extensive experience in landscape architecture and urban design ranging from specific site design and detailing to the development of large urban areas and satellite cities. He has worked on projects including university campuses, community plazas, parks, retail sites, high-end residential designs, waterfronts, LEED certified projects, green roofs, wetland mitigation, neighborhood development and mine reclamation in locations such as Michigan, California and Chile. His work illustrates his unique ability to address the client’s needs while maximizing the distinct characteristics of every site.

Prior to joining Design Workshop, Tunte opened his own landscape architecture and urban design firm in 2006, which was located in Santiago, Chile. Besides overseeing business development for the firm, he worked on projects that included a green roof and two-city block streetscape for the Costanera Center development (which upon completion will feature the tallest building in South America); Mirador del Alto, a prominent exterior retail space; and development analysis and urban design concepts for the La Reserva, a mixed-use neighborhood.

In addition, Tunte worked on the Hua Yuan Beijing Northern Sector Mixed Use Neighborhood in San Francisco, where he collaborated with the office of WRT, Solomon ETC on the development of a mixed-use neighborhood with more than 5,000 units. He was also part of the International Urban Design Workshop in Hue, Vietnam, where he participated in the development of urban design guidelines to enhance and protect the value of a World Heritage site for the government of Vietnam.

Tunte graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Landscape Architecture as an ASLA Student Honor Award winner from Michigan State University. He also holds a Master of Urban Design degree from the University of California-Berkeley. While at the University of California-Berkeley, Tunte was a Gadsby Trudgett Scholarship recipient, as well as a University of California Fellowship recipient. In addition to several scholarships and awards, he worked on a project for Birmingham Fire Station that received the ASLA Michigan Chapter Merit Award in 2005.

While in Chile, Tunte was a professor at P. Universidad Católica de Chile in its Master of Landscape Architecture program and Architecture undergraduate program, and he was a visiting professor for the Department of Urbanism at Universidad de Concepción. Tunte also participated in and hosted several workshops and lectures focused on contemporary issues in landscape architecture and urban design. He has been published in magazines such as TC Tecnología & Construcción, D+A and Tell Magazine.

About Design Workshop
Founded in 1969, Design Workshop is an international landscape architecture, land planning, urban design and strategic services firm with six offices in the U.S. and work spanning the globe. The firm has been recognized with over 150 prestigious awards for its work in new communities, urban centers, resorts, public parks, golf courses and residences. The firm's philosophy challenges the project team to equally integrate and balance artistic vision, environmental sensitivity, community values and sound economics to create unique places that stand the test of time. It refers to this approach as DW Legacy Design®.