2023 Class of Fellows, Tina Bishop, Colorado Chapter
Mundus Bishop, Denver
Tina Bishop has forged a path in landscape architecture that elevates the art, stewardship, and social responsibility of the profession. She seeks to create dynamic public spaces informed by context, stories, ecosystems, microclimates, and people. In her forty years of practice, her design work and advocacy efforts have advanced the cultural landscape movement by valuing cultural systems and historic resources as much as nature and ecology. As founder of Mundus Bishop, Tina's expertise as a designer, planner, historic preservationist, urban designer, and environmentalist has been sought for projects of every scale, with a special ability to carefully transform and revitalize master works. Her distinctive and inspiring portfolio of thriving built works includes revitalized landmarks, transformed historic sites, resilient parks and open spaces, and activated civic spaces and public gardens. Among Tina's award-winning projects in Denver are: Babi Yar Park: Her visionary master plan and design for a deteriorated site of Lawrence Halprin and Satoru Nishita gave form to the park's cultural narrative of remembrance, action, and hope within a restored remnant shortgrass prairie; Denver Art Museum: As lead landscape architect, urban designer, and historic preservation expert, Tina transformed the museum site to reconnect downtown, its cultural institutions, and city neighborhoods; and Montbello Open Space Park: Tina created Denver's first nature education park, based in native plant communities with integrated green infrastructure and play and outdoor skills development features, serving underrepresented communities.
