Paul Cote
Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Paul Cote is the Geographic Information Systems Specialist at the Design School. He is responsible for designing and maintaining the school's environment for working with spatially referenced data. Cote also teaches introductory and advanced GIS courses, delivers GIS-specific lectures and demonstrations for studios and other courses, and collaborates with other faculty on research projects having requirements for spatial data management. His own research involves developing very broad-scale, database-driven, multi-purpose three dimensional models of cities that are maintained collaboratively by many actors and agencies. He is the Thread Architect for the Open Geospatial Consortium's Testbed for integrating Building Information Models, Computer Aided Design and GIS in a framework of Open Web Services. Cote earned a Master's degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993, and a Bachelors degree in Geography from Indiana University, 1984; and has eight years of experience in land surveying and commercial cartography.