About the Author

Kim Sorvig is a research assistant professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, and co-author of the Sustainable Building Technical Manual, published by the U.S. Green Building Council. 

 

Sorvig has consulted and designed for the Historic Santa Fe Foundation; the Rio Grande Botanical Gardens Asian Meditation Gardens; the Las Aves Wildlife Rescue Facility (Espanola, NM); the restoration of the Barnes Arboretum (Philadelphia); and the restoration of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Garden (New York). He has provided site-interpretive designs for private residences and ecological and historical interpretations for several large public parks and projects.

 

He is a registered landscape architect (NM, PA) and member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and International Association of Landscape Ecologists.

 

Sorvig holds a Master of Landscape Architect degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Humanities and Social Science from Colorado State University.