David Jensen

Biography

David Jensen is a nationally recognized landscape architect with many years of experience on a wide range of projects throughout the United States. His firm, David Jensen Associates, is based out of Denver, Colorado. Projects vary in size, scope and location from mixed-use planned communities and residential and golf course resort communities to a ten-acre empty nester project in California.

He is a firm supporter of the LAEP Department and established the David Jensen Scholarship Endowment Fund in 1989, which provides LAEP students with a cash scholarship, a tuition waiver and an opportunity for a summer internship at David Jensen Associates, Inc.

Dave is one of the most influential community planners in this country. He has spent his career mentoring landscape architects and educating his clients, public officials, and other allied professionals in fostering innovative landscape architecture in community design. He continues to challenge himself to mentor his staff, to inspire the development team, to educate and encourage his clients, and to write and speak about smart growth, sustainable development, and community design.

His extensive works include scores of award-winning, master-planned communities that serve as examples of innovation in community planning, conservation, and sustainability. Thousands of homeowners have experienced the sense of place he has created.
Among his award-winning projects are:
• Building with Trees Award of Excellence, Residential Mixed-Use Community, National Arbor Day Foundation/National Association of Home Builders/Firewise Community, for Bailey’s Grove, Kentwood, Michigan, 2003
• Builder’s Choice Grand Award for Community of the Year, for Wetherington, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994
• Builder’s Choice Grand Award, Single-Family Detached Community, for The Vineyards, Hillsborough County, Florida, 2002

Dave is the author of publications by the National Association of Home Builders and Urban Land Institute. In addition, his articles have been featured in various trade publications throughout the United States.