Craig L. Karn

-ASLA, ULI Principal, Co-Founder Consilium Design

With over 40 years in land planning, urban design, and landscape architecture, Craig Karn, principal and founding partner of Consilium Design, is a nationally-renowned expert in community design and real estate development. Craig achieves success with a wide range of challenging projects through an emphasis on quality, sustainable design and an uncommon respect for the design process. He’s driven to bring great communities to life. Craig’s experience includes large-scale land development planning, golf communities, mixed-use master planned communities, and the design of a variety of neighborhoods and urban spaces. He is active in the master planning and design of communities across Colorado as well as throughout the United States and internationally.

Kristie Mcdowell

PWB, NAHB, Vice President of Operation, Co-Founder

Kristie having a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture brings a wealth of horticulture knowledge to Consilium Design. She owned her own landscape design and horticultural consulting business for over 10 years until co-founding Consilium Design.

Kristie uses her strong financial management & business skills to allow Craig and the Consilium Team to focus on design.

T. Barnabas Kane

Senior Landscape Architect

Barnabas is a second generation landscape architect and planner, with an approach that blends architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, art, and community planning skills. Because of his passion for the field, he intends to influence every project and client to design the best possible project while improving all the cultural and ecological systems involved. He looks at every project as an opportunity to treat people as change agents.

Barnabas has a diverse portfolio of projects from around the country and offers a very robust skill set, along with excellent artistic design abilities. He is a permaculture instructor, a regenerative practitioner, a rainwater harvesting expert, has taught at the ASU design school and presented to many diverse audiences including the National Greenbuild Conference. He founded Skywater, a rainwater harvesting company, 10 years ago to fill a local market niche and to promote the technology.

As a regional water management expert, Barnabas has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and has received numerous accolades, including a Sunset magazine award and been a featured designer in local, as well as national publications like Cowboys and Indians and Better Homes and Gardens magazines.

Julie Hendricksen

Senior Landscape Architect

Julie Hendricksen is a Senior Landscape Architect and brings over 20 years of experience in residential, commercial and community master planning.

Julie is an excellent relationship builder both around the design table and in the field. Her background in construction administration brings a depth of knowledge not always available in designers. She is known for her assertive and intuitive management style that emphasizes accountability and community. Julie was one of the first landscape architects in Colorado to gain her Green Roof Professional certification and values her involvement with Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. She is involved in food equity and supporting pollinator habitat. An avid beekeeper, reader and hiker. She spends as much time as possible outdoors.

Dane J. Huffman

Associate

A graduate of Colorado State University, Dane J. Huffman has been with the Consilium Design team since 2005, and has gained a wide range of experience with his time here. With skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch Up, Arch GIS, Flash, Auto CAD, Dane is able to assist in providing new alternatives in presenting, processing, and completing projects from start to finish. In addition to his knowledge with new technologies, Dane has strong hand graphics and a good eye for designing great spaces.

Kaitlyn Weimer

Landscape Architect

Kaitlyn is an ambitious landscape architect with a broad range of design acumen coming from recognized firms from the East Coast. Her experience spans from residential developments, hospitality projects, to urban planning. She has a strong passion for creating compelling work in every market sector believing that, within each project, there is a special opportunity to create compelling places that tell a story unique to each site. Her designs aim to utilize the qualities of the site, respond to the environment and address users’ needs in order to produce innovative and precisely detailed designs that create a unique sense of place and timeless moments.

Michael Liam Hogan

Landscape Designer

Liam brings a great attitude, strong collaboration skills and creative design skills to the team. Expertise in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop and InDesign round out his influence.

Liam earned his degree in Landscape Architecture from West Virginia University and since graduation, he worked as an Account Manager for a residential design firm in the Washington DC area. Later he then worked for a multi-disciplinary land planning, engineering, and landscape architecture firm in the DC area as a Landscape Designer.