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Our curriculum is based on three scales of the design/build process: Whole Buildings and Communities (large scale), Materials, Methods and Building Systems (medium scale), and Architectural Craft and Woodworking (small scale). Click on the links in bold below to read more about each curriculum group, or on a course listing for more detail about that course.

Learn more about our Certificate Programs

Current Offerings (April 2008-April 2009)

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1 and 2 week Courses
Community Design/Build
Deconstruction & Material Re-Use Design/Build in the Dominican Republic
Design for Builders
Ecological Design in the Built Environment
Edible Forest Gardens
Farm Design/Build
Home Design
Home Design/Build
Less is More: Designing & Renovating the Smaller Home
Natural Design/Build
Permaculture Design Certification
Put the Fab Back in Pre-Fab
Raising the Bar on Sustainable Design
Regenerative Design & Development
Sustainable Communities of the Future
Sustainable Treehouse Design & Construction

1-3 Day Workshops

Ecological Water Systems
Efficiency by Design
Green Development Best Practices
Green Home Design
Hands-On Sacred Geometry
Invisible Structures: Strategies Beyond Building Green
Landscape Design
Permaculture for Home & Garden
Rain Garden Design
Re-Inventing Small Business
Residential Additions & Renovation Design
Solar Design
Thinking Like a Mountain
Urban Regeneration
Vermont Residential Green Building Certifications
Wind Power

1 and 2 week Courses
Art in the English Garden
Art of Stone
Basic Carpentry

Carpentry for Women
Carpentry for Women II
Constructed Wetlands for Waste Water Treatment
Do-It-Yourself Home Repair
Green Roof Design & Installation
Introduction to Cob Building Kitchen & Bath Design
Masonry Fireplace Design/Build
Microhydro: Home Scale Water Power Systems
Natural Building in Costa Rica
Natural Plasters & Finishes
Renovation
Reuse : Recycle
Root Cellar Design/Build
Strawbale Design/Build
Timberframing
Wire it Up

1-3 Day Workshops
Architectural Freehand Drawing
Biofuels
Decks 101
Do-it-Yourself Home Energy Audit
Electricity: Safe & Secure
Energy Efficient Heating & Cooling
Engineering for the Home Builder
Green Building Materials
Greenhouse Design/Build
Green Remodeling
How to GC Your Home
Hygro-Thermal Engineering
Intro to AutoCAD
Intro to SketchUP
Intro to Vectorworks
Mathematics for Building
Modern Plaster Techniques
Natural Paints & Finishes

Plumbing Demystified
Redesigning Wastewater
Rigging, Rolling & Raising
Slipform Stone
Stump to Sticker
Super-Insulation for Zero Net-Energy Homes
Tricks of the Trade
Trim & Finish Carpentry


1 and 2 week Courses
Beginning Furnituremaking
Build and Sculpt a Trestle Bench
Cabinets and Built-ins
Cabinets Unlimited
Design & Build Your Own Coffee Table
Green Ladderback Chairs
Intermediate Furniture Techniques
Japanese Shoji & Woodworking
No-Shop Cabinetry
Ply Like an Eagle
Small Scale Design/Build
Stained Glass Intensive
Youth Design/Build
Furnituremaking and Cabinetry Tutorial with Randy Taplin

1-3 Day Workshops
Boxmaking
Care and Repair of Shop Machines
Concrete Countertops
Introduction to the Woodshop
Japanese Bamboo Art & Architecture
Joinery
Learn to Build a Skin-On-Frame Canoe
Learn to Build a Skin-On-Frame Kayak
Mosaics
Powertools for Women
Rustic Furniture
Stained Glass Primer
Stairway Design & Construction
Stone Masonry
Welding & Cutting
Woodturning Tutorial with Richard Montague


 

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Yestermorrow Certificate Programs

UVM Continuing Education Courses

AIA Continuing Education Courses

College Credit for Yestermorrow courses