July 11, 2022
Professor Thaïsa Way Retires from the Department of Landscape Architecture
Professor Thaïsa Way Retires from the Department of Landscape Architecture
Announcing our 2022 WASLA + UWLA Capstone Award Winners
At long last, we would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to the WASLA Awards this year. We appreciate your participation during such a busy year and spring quarter! Congratulations to our National ASLA Student Award winners!
July 10, 2022
Congratulations, graduates!
On June 10, 2022, CBE held our first in-person commencement ceremony in three years. Check out the story and more photos.
July 9, 2022
Professor Thaïsa Way Retires from the Department of Landscape Architecture
Professor Thaïsa Way has retired and is redirecting from the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington as she pursues her work at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, a research institute of Harvard University.
July 7, 2022
Welcome Celina Balderas Guzmán
We are excited to welcome new faculty member, Celina Balderas Guzmán joining us this upcoming Autumn.
July 6, 2022
Ken Yocom reappointed as Chair of Department
We are pleased to share that Ken Yocom, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture has been reappointed to another 3-year term. His appointment begins June 16, 2022, and runs through June 15, 2025.
July 1, 2022
Drawing in Design Workshop with Milenko Matanovic
This past Spring Quarter, Milenko Matanovic, Founder of Pomegranate Center, offered a lecture and drawing workshop to our CBE students. Check out a short video of the workshop and link to his lecture.
Spring Design Build and Celebration at Kline Galland
On June 7, 2022 Kline Galland celebrated the completion of this year’s Design Build with a dedication ceremony officiating the space as the Marty Bender Family Garden. Read more about this project.
May 31, 2022
UW//LA JEDI Newsletter SPR ’22
Our Department JEDI Committee Year End Reflection On behalf of the Landscape Architecture department, the JEDI Committee would like to acknowledge that these onerous and tragic times of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, blatant attacks on human rights nationally and globally, and racially motivated murders of BIPOC people, continue to impact our ability to show up…
May 30, 2022
Celebrating our University Olmsted Scholars
Congratulations to our University Olmsted Scholars Meghan Obernberger (BLA ‘22) and Stephanie Roh (MLA ‘22).
May 27, 2022
Our Department JEDI Committee
Year End Reflection On behalf of the Landscape Architecture department, the JEDI Committee would like to acknowledge that these onerous and tragic times of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, blatant attacks on human rights nationally and globally, and racially motivated murders of BIPOC people, continue to impact our ability to show up and remain energized and…
UWLA Department JEDI Updates
Comments from the JEDI Jam event on April 18 have been logged, and can be found here, including those added during the one week of extended posting on the 3rd floor of Gould. Our committee has started to thematically group comments, which will lead to a report that summarizes and guides next steps for our…
CBE Diversity Council Updates
CBE BIPOC Lunch Mark your calendars and please join us on Thursday, June 2nd for this quarter’s College-wide BIPOC lunch event! We will be serving banh mi sandwiches from Saigon Deli again along with other refreshments and hope to see you there! Take a break from all the hard work you are putting in and…
Student Feature – Yes Farm Charrette 5/7/22
The Black Farmers Collective (BFC) is working to develop a 1.5 acre urban farm in Yesler Terrace for community building, educational programming and growing a Black-led farm co-op. Led by UW CEP graduate, Shabazz Abdulkadir, with the help of MLA candidates Leila Jackson and Jiahua Zou, BFC is working to design more welcoming and accessible…
UWASLA Youth Outreach Updates
In the month of May, UWASLA Youth Outreach Project: Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures worked with the Duwamish River Community Coalition (DRCC) Youth Corps on a design mock studio to redesign Jack Block Park. Each workshop began with a presentation regarding the day’s topic, then in smaller teams, the youth collaborated on…
PAC JEDI Committee Updates
About Did you know that the department’s Professional Advisory Council (PAC) has its own JEDI Committee? The mission of this Committee is “to provide a just, equitable, diverse and inclusive forum where students and professionals from all backgrounds, and having a range of perspectives and life experiences are welcomed and supported. The committee’s work fosters…
Upcoming JEDI Events
Gardens for BIPoC Graham Visitor Center, Washington Park Arboretum Ongoing, Monthly Schedule, urbhort@uw.edu Gardens for BIPoC is a new, free monthly tour that takes place in the Washington Park Arboretum, serving folks that identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or a person of color. These groups have historically been underrepresented and underserved in public garden programs. We…
May 11, 2022
WASLA | Call for Design Leads – Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures
For the next cohort UWASLA Youth Outreach; Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures, will be working with DRCC Youth Corps on a series of events to redesign Jack Block Park. We are looking for people interested in joining the events to lead the youth in the process of design. Please refer to the…
PAC Transit Oriented Drawing (TOD) on Saturday May 21st
Join the UW//LA PAC on Saturday, May 21st for Transit Oriented Drawing from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Participants will receive a complimentary sketchbook, provided by Pacific Lighting Systems. Event begins at 10:30 AM at the University of Washington station and head off to sketch the surrounding areas near the U District, Roosevelt and Northgate…
May 9, 2022
APWA (American Public Works Association) UW Chapter Officer Openings
Why join us? Opportunities to develop relationships with local professionals in the field of public works to not only understand future career opportunities but also get direct leads on employment! We also host resume reviews as well as networking sessions and tours to public works sites like the UW Power Plant and SeaTac International Airport….
Perlego $20,000 scholarship
The applications for 2022 open today (April 18th). The deadline is August 20th. These are the scholarship details: One grand prize winner will receive a scholarship of $5,000/year for 4 years of college/university. In addition they will receive a 1-3 month internship after graduation. Scholarship is open to current high school and college students meeting…
April 12, 2022
2022 WASLA National Conference Stipend Application
WASLA National Conference Stipends will be awarded to: ● Two student members of ASLA. Applicants must be enrolled in a university Landscape Architecture program in Washington State. ● Two emerging professionals that are current ASLA Washington Chapter members. Emerging professionals are those who graduated from university in the Class of 2017 or more recently. The…
Internship Opportunity with Seattle Public Utilities
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is seeking two (2) interns for the Drainage and Wastewater (DWW) Line of Business to support the DWW Policy Program. Policy interns will be responsible for supporting policy development by collaborating with staff across DWW, SPU, and broader City family to facilitate policy development, research policy issues, evaluate potential solutions,…
Introducing Ride Now!
Ride Now offers on-demand rides to eligible riders by providing ride vouchers up to $20 in value through Uber, Lyft or Yellow Cab to anywhere they want to go. While you don’t have to live in Seattle to use the service, your trip does have to start or end in the Seattle city limits. Riders can…
LAVENDER GRADUATION!
It’s that time of year again… LAVENDER GRADUATION! In honor of the amazing accomplishments our 2SLGBTQIA+ community members and students have achieved, we proudly celebrate YOU! To our soon-to-be graduates, don’t forget to register for Lavender Graduation 2022. Registration for the event closes this Friday, April 15th, at midnight. ** This event is open to all currently enrolled…
March 25, 2022
2021-2022 Drawing in Design Lecture and Workshop Series: Movement, Time, and Spontaneity
Drawing offers a practice for thinking and an important mode of communicating ideas in design. Since 2016 the Department of Landscape Architecture, in collaboration with our professional partners, has convened a quarterly series of public lectures and weekend workshops for students that focus on representation in design. This year’s lineup includes Sofia Warren, Ann…
March 24, 2022
2022 CELA Awards
Congratulations to Dani Slowik (BLA ’22), Assistant Professor Catherine De Almeida, and Professor Daniel Winterbottom for receiving the following awards at the recent Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2022 conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fountain Scholar Award Winner: Daniella Slowik Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and/or Creative Works, Junior Level: Catherine De Almeida Outstanding…
March 23, 2022
Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures
The UW Diversity Seed Grant funded the project “Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures” under the leadership of UWASLA Youth Outreach Chair Maria Arevalo (BLA ‘23). Maria has continued to work with students of Proyecto Saber at Denny International Middle School (see our last newsletter for a recap of the first session). Fellow…
Inaugural Landscape Architecture Furniture Studio
During Autumn 2021, the Furniture Studio, a legacy course in the Architecture department, was offered to Landscape Architecture students for the first time. While the focus on craft and material remained constant, the context of the work provided a unique scale and scope not previously used in furniture studios. Architecture faculty members Kimo Griggs and…
March 22, 2022
Upcoming Events
Undocu Week Leadership Without Borders March 7-11, 2022 | 5-7 PM Undocu Week is hosted by Leadership Without Borders (LWB) and consists of a series of weeklong events that provide knowledge, resources and more to the UW community and beyond! This is the week’s itinerary—all events will be from 5-7pm in the ECC Unity Suite! There…
Online Resources
Nakani Native Program Barriers to Revitalizing PNW Traditional Food Cultures Seminar recording and more. EPA Launches EJScreen 2.0, Updating the Community Environmental Justice Mapping Tool *Excerpted EPA announcement The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated and redesigned EJScreen, the Agency’s publicly available, award-winning environmental justice (EJ) screening and mapping tool. The redesigned tool, which has…
UWASLA Updates
Digital and physical models of Jack Block Park from 2.11 and 2.18 workshops at Denny International Middle School. The UW Diversity Seed Grant funded the project “Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures” under the leadership of UWASLA Youth Outreach Chair Maria Arevalo (BLA ‘23). Maria has continued to work with students of Proyecto Saber at Denny International…
CBE Diversity Council Updates
CBE BIPOC Lunch: On Wednesday, February 23rd, the College of Built Environments’ Diversity Council hosted its first BIPOC Student Lunch at the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center on Wednesday, February 23. The aim of the lunch was to provide a fun, inclusive space for BIPOC students from the different CBE disciplines to meet and converse….
Curriculum Corner
Students at Ecolibrium Farm in Woodinville, WA Kristi Park and Tim Lehman on L ARCH 502A The Farm Studio The “Farm Studio” included an in-depth look at food cultivation focused on a peri-urban, 12 acre site in Woodinville, WA. Students were given the freedom to deep dive on many topics related to the food systems including…
Faculty Feature
Professors Thaïsa Way and Ken Yocom recently published a chapter, “Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and Region” in the new book Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice (2021,UW Press) edited by Nik Janos and Corina McKendry In Sept 2021, Professor Jeff Hou and colleagues produced a report from their CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) panel last…
Alumni Feature
Jocine Velasco (MLA ’21), Rhys Coffee (MLA ’23), and Ken Yocom are working closely with the Burke Museum, the UW Native American Advisory Board, UW Grounds and Maintenance, and the design firm GGN to study the health and viability of a camas meadow recently designed and installed at the Burke Museum on the UW campus. The collaboration is working to…
Student Feature
Stephanie Roh (MLA ’22) Third-year MLA student, Stephanie Roh completed a Valle Scholarship in Scandinavia in Autumn 2021. Her project, “Space For Us: Designing Landscapes of Belonging for Immigrants in Copenhagen + Malmö” focuses on the role of public space in helping immigrants feel welcome in their new homes. Stephanie notes, “I decided to study this topic…
WIN ’22 Department JEDI Committee Updates
Spring Town Hall Meeting 1.14.22 Students from Denny International Middle School design interventions at Jack Block Park – more updates from UWASLA below. The Dept JEDI Committee is organizing a department-wide Town Hall event this April to consider how to center JEDI work in Landscape Architecture. This will be an opportunity for all of…
March 21, 2022
Klamath River Presentation
Design & Innovation for Sustainable Cities ☀ Info Session (UC Berkeley Summer Program)
Disc* is an immersive five-week summer program for college students offered by UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. It explores an interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach to design and analysis in the urban environment. Disc* participants engage in the discourses of urban innovation, and develop creative solutions to tackle the urgent challenges global cities face today. Disc* is…
March 14, 2022
Professor Nancy Rottle Retires from the Department of Landscape Architecture
Nancy Rottle, a long-time professor of landscape architecture and the past Scan Design Foundation Endowed Chair, has retired after more than 20 years of teaching, research and service at the University of Washington. We are happy to see her step into the next stages of her life and work, though Nancy’s presence and meaningful contributions…
March 8, 2022
Join the Q Center and Qmunity in a pre-Spring hangout!
The Q Center’s Interpreting Intersectionality series welcomes leadership from UW RSO Q-munity. This group aims to creat a tight knit social network for LGBTQ+ individuals on campus. Join us for a casual kickback this Friday, March 11th to learn more about Q-munity’s programming and meet some of their members! Event details can be found with…
Grounding the Green New Deal: A Summit on Design, Policy, and Advocacy
April 9, 12-5pm* National Building Museum, 401 F St NW, Washington, DC *Doors open at 11am for pre-event exhibit and networking. There will be a post-summit reception until 7pm. More panelists confirmed! Hear from influential leaders working on issues of climate and equity: Bryan Lee Jr, Kate Orff, Colette Pichon Battle, Nikil Saval, Billy Fleming, Dana…
UNDOCU WEEK
Undocu Week Leadership Without Borders March 7-11, 2022 | 5-7 PM Undocu Week is hosted by Leadership Without Borders (LWB) and consists of a series of weeklong events that provide knowledge, resources and more to the UW community and beyond! This is the week’s itinerary—all events will be from 5-7pm in the ECC Unity Suite!…
CALL for Applications: Drawing in Design Spring Workshop (due Friday 3/18)
DRAWING IN DESIGN WORKSHOP APRIL 22 – 24, 2022 Drawing offers a practice for thinking and an important mode of communicating ideas in design. Since 2016 the Department of Landscape Architecture, in collaboration with our professional partners, has convened a quarterly series of public lectures and weekend workshops for students that focus on representation in design. This…
February 23, 2022
CALL FOR REVIEWERS – Empowering BIPOC Youth: Pathways to Sustainable Design Futures
This school year the Landscape Architecture Department received a SEED Grant to work with the youth of surrounding communities of the Duwamish River on a landscape architecture mock studio. The project outlines that UWASLA Youth Outreach Coordinator and volunteers will engage students around questions of public space, ecology, and social justice. The studio will serve…
February 11, 2022
Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice
*Note: This is a presentation by Landscape Architecture Adjunct Assistant Professor Cleo. Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice Cleo Wölfle Hazard with Stephanie Clare https://townhallseattle.org/event/cleo-wolfle-hazard/ Friday, March 11, 2022, 7:30PM The Forum 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.) Seattle, Washington 98101 A livestream of this event will be available. From the grasslands of the Columbia…
The Forest History Society Presents:
“Frederick Law Olmsted: Bringing Nature to the City” by Laurence Cotton Monday, February 14th from 1:00 to 2:30 pm, Eastern This 90 minute presentation is approved for 1.5 Units of CFE Credits from the Society of American Foresters. April 26, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the master designer of…
Design for the Common Good: Exhibition, Conference, Conversations
I am pleased to share details about a series of upcoming events in March on community and public interest design that you can join online. All are companion events for the current Design for the Common Good exhibition in Denver — https://www.msudenver.edu/cva/exhibitions/archive/design-for-the-common-good/ Structure for Inclusion Conference, March 4-5, 2022 Program: https://designcorps.org/sfi/ Register (free if you register as…
February 9, 2022
Landscape Architecture alumni establish a fund for equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts
During their time as students in Landscape Architecture, Rhiannon Neuville, Peter Samuels, and Jake Minden set out to establish a support fund in their department to help advance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts. Launched in December 2020, the UW//LA Fund for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion aims to financially support a wide range of programs…
December 21, 2021
Endowed Scholarship for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Landscape Architecture Update
Each year, the Department of Landscape Architecture graduates innovative practitioners and leaders who are ready to contribute to the change we seek. Our students study landscape architecture because they believe we can equitably and justly transform and shape our communities for the better. Earlier this year, we made the exciting announcement that Site Workshop, Gustafson…
November 19, 2021
Copenhagen – Malmo + Interdisciplinary Studios
Cph Study Tour_2022 Info Session Monday, November 22nd for Scandanavian Study Abroad opportunities.
Future Rivers – Graduate Training Program
Applications are now open for the University of Washington Future Rivers graduate training program for the next cohort year beginning Autumn quarter 2022! Please help spread the word and encourage any prospective (incoming fall quarter 2022) or current PhD or Masters students in any discipline at the University of Washington to apply. Future Rivers is…
FELLOWSHIP//Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen Food Systems Fellowship
Apply by Dec. 1 The Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen Food Systems Fellowship is an intensive, one-year leadership development program offered through Acumen Academy, the world’s school for social change. The inaugural Food Systems Fellowship will introduce moral leadership concepts to a globally diverse cohort of 20 food systems leaders who are creating more inclusive, nourishing and regenerative…
October 29, 2021
Landscape Architecture announces MIG Scholarship Fund For The Design Of Equitable and Inclusive Environments
The University of Washington’s College of Built Environments is thrilled to partner with MIG Inc. in creating the MIG Scholarship Fund For The Design Of Equitable and Inclusive Environments. This scholarship will be granted to the CBE Department of Landscape Architecture students with a demonstrated interest and commitment to the design of equitable and inclusive…
October 27, 2021
Research Volunteers Wanted
Paid Research Volunteers Wanted If you are 18-25 and a full-time undergraduate student, you may be eligible to participate in a research study Researchers in the University of Oregon’s Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department are conducting a study to better understand how brief mindfulness-based interventions may enhance the well-being of college students. This study will be conducted remotely. You may be…
October 22, 2021
Linda Milbourn Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
Application Deadline: October 31, 2021 The Linda Milbourn Fellowship in Landscape Architecture awards $5,000 per application cycle to one student enrolled in a college/university graduate-level program pursuing a degree in landscape architecture. Eligibility is open to U.S. citizens and resident aliens. Applicant must demonstrate involvement in an experiential learning project (research, project, plan, or other direct impact/benefit) to a…
October 19, 2021
Showcasing Leading Practices in Climate Adaptation: Experiences from the Water Sector to Empower Other Sectors and Communities
An Eight-Part Webinar Series Hosted by: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Water Utility Climate Alliance (WUCA), The Water Research Foundation (WRF), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency November 2021 – February 2022 Climate change is one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. This webinar series, sponsored jointly by NOAA’s Adaptation Sciences Program,…
Transfer Student Preview Day
University of Washington’s Admissions and Undergraduate Academic Advising Offices are returning to hosting an in-person Transfer Student Preview Day (TSPD) in December for students thinking about transferring to the UW! TSPD is especially suited to students planning to apply for Autumn Quarter 2022. The program will offer information about the programs, services and advising available…
Ellis Civic Fellowship
The Ellis Civic Fellowship identifies two students from each incoming class who are committed to serving the community and investing in their own leadership development during their time at the UW! If selected as an Ellis Fellow, you will receive a scholarship (totaling $12,000 over four years), personalized advising, supported connections with community engaged projects,…
Start with Intention – SEBA
Graduate school is a great time for self discovery. However, more often than not, graduate students question the next step to take for their careers at the very end of the training. This often leaves them unprepared for the job market and the diverse career paths they could pursue after their PhD. ‘Start with Intention’…
INFOcon 2021
INFOCon 2021 is a multi-day (Tuesday, October 19, 2021 – Thursday, October 21, 2021) virtual event that showcases the breadth and depth of information professions. This event is intended for prospective students interested in learning about career paths and research topics in the areas of information, technology, and people. We’ve invited faculty across the U.S….
July 19, 2021
Power to the Pollinator Student Project
Over the past few decades, bees and other critical pollinator species have been experiencing a rapid decline in population. Natural ecosystems depend on these critters to pollinate roughly 85% of flowering species, which in turn provide habitat and nourishment for other wildlife. By gathering pollen and nectar from hundreds of flowers, pollinator species like bumble…
June 25, 2021
Fly By Night: A Designer’s Look at Bats in Seattle Parks
Sidney Greenslate, BLA ’21, completed this senior capstone research project and presented to the UW Landscape Architecture Department in Spring 2021. Inspiration: Art, Science & Creativity I was inspired to pursue this project in part by a talk given at the UW by landscape architect and designer David Buckley Borden. His playful, eye-catching installation pieces…
Celebrating Graduates | UW 2021 Gonfalonieres and Guardians of the Gonfalons
Each year the UW’s schools and colleges select students to lead their degree candidates during the commencement procession. These students are called gonfalonieres, because they carry the school’s gonfalon, a banner that hangs down from a crosspiece and bears that school’s name and symbol. Following tradition borrowed from the Italian Renaissance, the gonfalonieres represent some…
May 24, 2021
Urban + Informality: Framing Resilience | Winter 2020
Built Environments Interdisciplinary Studio
Winter 2020
Manish Chalana + Julie Johnson
Carbon Leadership Forum Member Impact: Sofia Segebre, BLA
Sofia Segebre, BLA ’21, has been working with the UW’s Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) since April of 2020 where she’s been supporting the team with general program administration as well as facilitating community outreach and collaboration. In February 2021, Sofia shared her motivation to reduced embodied carbon admissions in CLF’s Member Impact feature. Sofia Segebre…
May 18, 2021
Visions for Heron Meadow | Autumn 2020
Scan Design Master Studio
Autumn 2020
Nancy Rottle
April 1, 2021
Firms partner with UW, WSU to establish BIPOC landscape architecture scholarship
The University of Washington’s College of Built Environments and Washington State University’s School of Design and Construction are working together with Site Workshop, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN), and Berger Partnership to create an endowed scholarship in their respective landscape architecture programs to support students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Site…
March 31, 2021
Around the UW Farm: Sophia Falls
Sophia joined the BLA program in 2020. When she’s not studying landscape architecture, she’s a student staff member of the UW Farm. Check out Sophia’s profile from UW Farm below! Sophia Falls, First Year Student Staff, CSA Lead Sophia is a junior at UW majoring in Landscape Architecture with a minor in Geography. She is…
March 10, 2021
Mud Gallery: Olympia Arts Month
In March 2021, three MLA students submitted this project, entitled Mud Gallery, to Olympia Arts Month in Olympia, Washington. We are a group of three landscape architecture students from Olympia, Seattle and Baltimore. We share a deep love of this region and a desire to connect people with place. We are excited about the way…
January 28, 2021
Anti-Displacement Research Studio | Spring 2020
Graduate Studio | Livable City Year
Spring 2020
Lynne Manzo
Green New Deal Super Studio | Autumn 2020
Advanced Vertical Studio (Undergraduate + Graduate Studio)
Autumn 2020
Brooke Sullivan
January 15, 2021
Racial Equity Within Built Environment Design Practice
In my final year of the MLA program, I’ve been given the opportunity to participate in the Applied Research Consortium (ARC), a new program within the college that links graduate students, faculty members, and firms to research a topic that aligns student interest, faculty expertise, and firm needs. I am leading a year-long research project…
December 28, 2020
Climate Changed Urban Agriculture | Autumn 2019
Advanced Graduate Studio
Autumn 2019
Julie Johnson
October 21, 2020
Autumn 2020 News
Dear alumni and friends, I hope this letter finds you and those close to you are safe and well. As we begin a new academic year, we are fully engaged in an online experience for our students, staff and faculty. Building from student feedback after their rapid transition to online education last spring term, our…
September 3, 2020
Fairy Tales of the City
Vertical Advanced Studio (Undergraduate + Graduate Studio)
Summer 2020
Mackenzie Waller
May 21, 2020
2020 Capstone Final Presentations
Check out the final project briefs and presentation schedule for our 2020 MLA students capstone projects.
April 1, 2020
Tiaki Over Time: New Zealand Study Abroad 2020
Study Abroad Studio: New Zealand
Winter 2020
Instructors: Nancy Rottle + Paul Olson
Birds + Climate Change
Vertical Studio (Undergraduate + Graduate)
Winter 2020
Instructor: Mackenzie Waller
February 27, 2020
Equitable Public Space, Environmental Justice Through Policy and Design
Equitable Public Space, Environmental Justice Through Policy and Design (PDF) is a practical guide for community and civic leaders, city planners, policy makers, designers and project managers to address public space inequities and disparities in community conditions within the built environment. This guide explores the question of how the myriad benefits offered by public and…
February 25, 2020
2018 Building New Global Connections | Croatia Design/Build
This story originally appeared on College of Built Environments website on October 23, 2019. You can see the original story here. The UW Landscape Architecture Croatia Design/Build program gives students the unique opportunity to make a lasting, physical impact in their host community. Professor Daniel Winterbottom, an expert in the creation of healing and therapeutic…
January 28, 2020
2018 Design+Build in Dals Langed, Sweden
In collaboration with students from HDK-Steneby, a design and crafts school located in Dals Långed, 15 students from University of Washington’s College of Built Environments, led by Professor Daniel Winterbottom, worked with the local immigrant and refugee community to create a community garden intended to improve well-being, alleviate the stresses of the integration process and…
December 10, 2019
Porous Public Space 2019
Scan|Design Master’s Studio
Autumn 2019
Instructor: Nancy Rottle
November 26, 2019
For lecturer Kristi Park, landscape architecture is for equity and activism
This story highlights the work of L ARCH 300 Intro to Landscape Architecture Studio in Autumn 2020. It originally appeared in The Daily on November 25, 2019. See the original article. When UW lecturer Kristi Park assigned her 29 students a project in their landscape architecture class, she had few requirements: use found objects, don’t…
October 21, 2019
Sensol Modular Crosswalk project selected for Amazon Catalyst Fellowship
In July, seven new teams were selected as Amazon Catalyst Fellows. The teams are a mix of UW faculty, students, and staff from eleven departments across campus. Each team received funding to pursue a big idea focused on one of this round’s themes: Computational Social Science or Urban Transportation. One winning team features CBE students, Janie Bube, Graduate Student, Landscape…
October 7, 2019
The Wild City
MLA student Sarah Bartosh asks, “How can we challenge the way that we think about designing for children’s connection with nature in our increasingly urban environments?”
August 15, 2019
Drawing in Design: Student Perspectives
Drawing in Design is a quarterly series of public lectures and weekend workshops for students that focus on representation in design and bring leading landscape architects and designers from across the country to our Department. Student Perspective: Allison Ong, MLA The workshop Alan Maskin started with a presentation about his personal history and relationship with…
August 2, 2019
Congratulations to our 2019 Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Olmsted Scholars
“Using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits.” These are the qualities of students recognized through the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Olmsted Scholars Program, considered one of the most prestigious national awards for students of landscape architecture. The College of Built Environments is proud to recognize two graduating…
July 1, 2019
Students draw from Canadian context
For one week in mid-June, students explored the similarities and differences between US and Canadian urban environments as they visited three Canadian cities: Montreal, Quebec City, and Ottawa. The field study was led by Fritz Wagner, Professor Emeritus in the departments of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design & Planning and Dr. Regent Cabana, an Affiliate Professor…
June 15, 2019
Liquid lands: investigating the estuaries of the Salish Sea
Capstone Graduate Studio
Academic Year 2018-19
Instructor: Ken Yocom
April 11, 2019
Gambling on Green: A Playground Renovation in Las Vegas, Nevada
The following article was written by MLA student Lauren Iversen for The Field, the ASLA Professional Practice Networks’ Blog. Under my wide brimmed hat, with sweat dripping, I added paint, stroke by stroke, to the long wall. My legs burned sitting on the decomposed granite roasting in the hot sun. I sipped Cool Blue Frost Gatorade,…
March 20, 2019
Ōtākaro/Avon Cultural Trail
Interdisciplinary Graduate Studio
Study Abroad in Christchurch, New Zealand
Winter 2019
Instructor: Nancy Rottle
March 18, 2019
Red Square: re-imagining an iconic UW landmark (UW Daily)
Landscape architecture students (both undergraduate and graduate) have teamed up with students from across the College of the Built Environment and around the University to compete in the Re-Imagining Red Square Design Competition. The competition, which wraps up in early April, has six interdisciplinary teams working for nine weeks to design alternative ideas for UW’s…
March 11, 2019
What Seattle Can Learn from Denmark about Community-Owned Housing (The Urbanist)
MLA student Roxanne Glick went to Copenhagen, Denmark to study their community-owned housing model. She brought what she learned from her time living in Denmark and studying their housing system back to Seattle. Roxanne shared some of her discoveries with The Urbanist. Below is an excerpt from her article. Inspired by the community ownership movement,…
January 1, 2019
ASLA Advocacy Week 2018
UWASLA Co-President Sophie Krause (MLA ’19) and ASLA Student Representative Darin Rosellini (BLA ’18) traveled to Washington D.C. for Advocacy Week in May 2018. This year’s ASLA Advocacy Week was “Landscape Architects Creating Resilient Solutions for Every Community.”
December 30, 2018
Continuity and Change: Urban Transitions, Public Life for 15th Avenue East
Scan Design Master Studio
Autumn 2018
Nancy Rottle
December 17, 2018
Diversifying the Profession through K-12 Outreach
2018 MLA graduate Allison Ong shares her experience introducing students from around the Seattle area to landscape architecture as part of a project with her ASLA mentor.
December 16, 2018
Reading the Elwha 2018:BLA Course Perspective
For the last four years, Associate Professor and Department Chair Ken Yocom has brought an interdisciplinary group of students out to the Olympic Peninsula for a summer course titled “Reading the Elwha.” During a week of hiking, observing the landscape and field meetings with local scientists, land managers, and tribal members, students explore concepts of Nature and the evolving human relationship with the environment in a watershed marked by the largest dam removal project in US history. Monica Taylor, a student in the course and recent BLA graduate, shared some of her experience in this reflection.
December 15, 2018
Design Foundations Studio 2018
LARCH 401 Foundations Studio
Autumn 2018
Instructors: Iain Robertson + Liz Browning
December 12, 2018
Auburn Alleyway Activation: MLA Project
What happens when you turn an uninviting alleyway lined with dumpsters over to UW Landscape Architecture students? The city of Auburn, Washington discovered these possibilities for such a space when three 2018 MLA graduates (Allison Ong, Sylvia Janicki, and Jack Alderman) developed a proposal for an alleyway in historic downtown on an independent study project through UW Livable City Year.
December 6, 2018
Pollinator Network: MLA Capstone
Yuchia Jan received his Master of Landscape Architecture in 2018. For his capstone project, he created a concept design to explore networks of pollinators including Monarch butterflies and Rufous hummingbirds in South Seattle and along Chief Sealth Trail.
December 4, 2018
BLA student on her experience transferring to UW
BLA student Jessica Chandler answered some questions about her experience as a transfer student in the Landscape Architecture program for the Fall 2017 Transfer Newsletter.
December 2, 2018
MLA Students Participate in Architecture Summer Design-Build
Two L Arch students (Nina Mross and Jiyoung Park) took part in a summer design/build project with the Architecture Department addressing food prep in Seattle’s homeless communities.
December 1, 2018
Garden Cities: An MLA Student’s Experience
David de la Cruz is from South Central Los Angeles. His experience growing up in this neighborhood – pollution, poverty, cultivation of local foods, and community – inspired him on a path that led to a Master of Landscape Architecture.
Building a Healing Garden: BLA Design-Build 2016
In winter and spring quarters of 2016, students from the University of Washington Department of Landscape Architecture designed and built a therapeutic garden for the Puget Sound Veteran’s Affairs Hospital in Seattle. Prof. Daniel Winterbottom guided the students through this design/build capstone project. The Garden of Earth and Sky opened in June 2016.
October 9, 2018
Alumni Spotlight: Kara Weaver, BLA ’05
For this edition of Alumni Spotlight we had the opportunity to speak with Kara Weaver, a landscape architect at Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) and a 2005 graduate of the BLA program. UW/LA: Could you describe your current position and what a typical day looks like for you? K: Right now I am the Project Manager…
September 1, 2018
Cinematic Cities
Advanced Undergraduate Studio
Summer 2018
Instructor: Elizabeth Umbanhowar
June 1, 2018
Reef Design in an Octopus’ Garden
Advanced Graduate and Undergraduate Studio
Spring 2018
Instructors: Iain Robertson & Brooke Sullivan
UW Aquatic Research Facility: Site Study + Design Visions
Advanced Graduate Studio
Spring 2018
Instructor: Julie Parrett
April 10, 2018
Alumni Spotlight: Brad Kurokawa, BLA ‘82
This month we are spotlighting landscape architect Brad Kurokawa (BLA, 1982). He currently lives and works in Hawai’i as a Principal at Ki Concepts LLC, a small landscape architecture firm. UWLA: Could you describe your current position? BK: I’m a principal at Ki Concepts LLC, a small landscape architecture firm with my brother Joel. Our…
April 1, 2018
Staying in Place: Designing for Community Resilience
Interdisciplinary Undergraduate+Graduate Studio
Winter 2018
Instructor: Rachel Berney & Julie Johnson
January 29, 2018
Alumni Spotlight: Barbara Deutsch, MLA ’97
This month we are spotlighting Barbara Deutsch, a 1997 graduate of the MLA program. She currently lives in Washington D.C. working as the CEO of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF). UWLA: What does a typical day look like in your position? BD: No two days are the same but there are cyclical work flows during…
January 1, 2018
En Route: Georgetown + South Park Connection
Advanced Undergraduate Studio
Autumn 2017
Instructor: Brian Gerich
December 30, 2017
City / Nature for Urban Resilience: Greener Belltown, Bluer Sound
Scan Design Master Studio
Autumn 2017
Nancy Rottle
November 21, 2017
Alumni Spotlight: Steve Moddemeyer, BLA ‘89
This month we are spotlighting Steve Moddemeyer (BLA 1989). Steve works in Seattle and is a principal with CollinsWoerman, an architecture and planning firm. His work focuses on creative planning and policy strategies that promote urban resilience and sustainability. UWLA: Could you outline your professional journey between graduation and today? S: My first job was…
October 13, 2017
Alumni Spotlight: Shu-Kuei (Tako) Hsu, MLA ’14
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT is a new department initiative to connect our prospective and current students with the diverse career trajectories and professional work of our graduates. We are extremely proud of the accomplishments of our alumni, and enjoy the opportunity to learn about the directions they have taken their career, whether short or long. The interviews…
June 1, 2017
Urban-Agri-Culture
Graduate Community Design Studio
Spring 2017
Instructor: Julie Johnson
April 1, 2017
Painted Dog Research Trust Zimbabwe
Advanced Graduate Studio
Winter 2017
Instructor: Brian Gerich
Transit + Civic Landscape Systems
Undergraduate+Graduate Studio
Winter 2017
Instructor: Julie Johnson
February 27, 2017
Cultural Design Studio 2016
Undergraduate+Graduate Studio
Autumn 2016
Instructor: Ken Yocom
January 1, 2017
Big Ideas | Small(er) Intervention
A Competition for Projects to Activate the Seattle Waterfront
Advanced Graduate Studio
Autumn 2016
Instructor: Julie Parrett
Porous Public Space
Scan|Design Master Studio
Advanced Graduate Studio
Autumn 2016
Instructors: Nancy Rottle & Jim Nicholls
July 8, 2016
2016 Puget Sound VA Hospital
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2016
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
June 1, 2016
Cultivating Community at the Cascade P-Patch
Advanced Graduate Studio
Spring 2016
Instructor: Eric Higbee
January 5, 2016
Positive disruption: Puget Sound’s best civic tech projects of 2015
Interested in how technology can help solve civic problems? Check out this recent Crosscut article which addresses how technology can give new urgency to conversations about equity, affordability, and the digital divide.
December 30, 2015
Cultivating the Community Commons: Climate, Culture, Craft
Scan Design Master Studio
Autumn 2015
Nancy Rottle
December 24, 2015
UW LArch alumnus Harley Pan’s Floating Wetlands documentary
For the past two years, MLA student Matthew MacDonald (2016) has been studying the viability and effectiveness of floating wetlands to improve local water quality. The research has been conducted in partnership with UW Larch / UW CBE and Green Futures Lab, with support from King County, Washington Conservation Corps, and Society of Wetland Scientists….
December 1, 2015
Autumn Quarter Final Review Schedule
FRI 12/4 LA 300 – Creating Open Space for the Frye Art Museum (Smith) 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Community Design Building WED 12/9 LA 301A – Understanding Landscapes: Introduction to Landscape and Design (Lewis) 12:00 – 2:30 p.m. Gould 110 + Gould Court LA 301B – SITE / finding . reading . designing [Design Foundation…
November 3, 2015
Will Yesler Terrace Retain its Spirit?
Professor Lynne Manzo‘s research on public housing redevelopment is referenced in this Seattle Times article on Yesler Terrace. Check it out here.
October 7, 2015
Upcoming Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Information Meetings.
Interested in landscape architecture? Attend one of our upcoming Bachelor of Landscape Architecture information meetings to learn more about the program! They will be held on the following dates: Thursday, October 22, 2015, 12:30-1:20, Gould 142 Thursday, November 12, 2015, 12:30-1:20, Gould 142 Thursday, December 10, 2015, 12:30-1:20, Gould 142 Thursday, January 14, 2015, 12:30-1:20,…
October 4, 2015
Congratulations to our 2015 ASLA student award winners!
This years winners include: Honor Award in General Design: Elizabeth Anderson, MLA ’14 – Deconstructing Hydrologies: Reviving the Memory of Water in Dumbarton Oaks Park Honor Award in Community Service: Biruk Belay, Scott Boetjer, Chiu-Hau Chang, Janice Chen, Shih Chiu, Cami Culbertson, Ann Dinthongsai, Machiyo Fuji, Graham Golbuff, Shu-Kuei Hsu, Lindsey Gadbois, Eunice Lo, Caitlyn…
September 21, 2015
2015 OUT in FRONT: Landscape Leading | CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Landscape Architecture Professional Advisory Council and the University of Washington Department of Landscape Architecture are now accepting entries for the 2015 OUT in FRONT Exhibit. For more information please visit: http://larchbu.be.washington.edu/gallery/outinfront-2015/
July 17, 2015
Congratulations to UW Alum Steve Durrant for being elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows!
Photo: Erin Lodi The American Society of Landscape Architects has chosen to elevate Steve Durrant (MLA ’83) to the ASLA Council of Fellows for 2015. Durrant, along with 36 other ASLA members, will be recognized at the 2015 ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO this November in Chicago. View Details Steve Durrant’s Alumni Profile
July 8, 2015
2015 Street End Park
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2015
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
May 28, 2015
UW MLA alum, Barbara Deutsch Honored with 2015 CELA President’s Award
Congratulations to LAF Executive Director Barbara Deutsch, FASLA, graduate of the UW MLA program. View Details
May 10, 2015
BLA Info Meeting: Art, Science, Design and More!
Find out about our BLA Program; view portfolio samples; and learn about the upcoming Summer LARC 300 studio and admissions process. Thursday, May, 14 2:30pm, Gould Hall 440;
UW Today: New book celebrates work, legacy of UW landscape architect Richard Haag
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May 5, 2015
Dr. Linda Steg: How to inspire people to engage in pro-environmental actions?
Ken Smith: Going Beyond the Metrics
Thu May 14 | Arch 147 | 6:00pm The lecture will focus on issues of ideas and craft in creating contemporary landscapes particularly at a larger scale. A number of new or recent projects will be discussed as case studies. It will address issues of scale, infrastructure and sustainability in the urban context. This lecture…
April 25, 2015
Congratulations Thaisa Way for winning prestigious American Academy in Rome Prize!
Winners were announced on April 16 in New York City and will be invited to Rome to pursue their work in experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange.
Daniel Winterbottom and Amy Wagenfeld’s new book ‘Therapeutic Gardens’ will be released April 29th!
Daniel Winterbottom and Amy Wagenfeld’s new book Therapeutic Gardens will be released April 29th! View details.
April 21, 2015
10 Ways of Designing
April 19, 2015
"The Invention of Landscape," Bas Smets
Tue April 21 – Lecture: “The Invention of Landscape,” Bas Smets, Bureau Bas Smets, Gould 322, 6:30pm
TeaTalk: "Eco-art: An Antidote to Dystopia" – Beverly Naidus
Wed April 15 – TeaTalk: “Eco-art: An Antidote to Dystopia” – Beverly Naidus, Associate Professor, UW Tacoma, Gould 322, 4:30pm
THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OF RICHARD HAAG | Book Launch at Peter Miller
A Book Signing with the Capo di Capi of Northwest Landscape Architecture, Richard Haag FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 6 – 8 PM Peter Miller Books – 2326 Second Avenue On May Day, come celebrate the life, work, humor, and remarkable influence of Richard Haag, and the new monograph on his work. Rich will be here to sign copies of the book,…
April 16, 2015
Spring Lecture: Bas Smets “The Invention of Landscape”
Join us Tuesday April 21, 2015 at 6:30pm in Gould 322 for our Spring Lecture with Bas Smets of Belgian landscape architecture firm, Bureau Bas Smets. http://www.bassmets.be/ What is a landscape ? How is it designed ? How is it constructed? The western notion of ‘landscape’ was invented in the fifteenth century to name a…
BrownBag: Barbara Deutsch, Exec Director of LAF
TeaTalk: Beverly Naidus
Beverly Naidus The TeaTalk will take place at 4:30PM on Wednesday, April 15th in Gould 322. Bring your tea mugs! Beverly Naidus is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Tacoma. Her interactive, socially engaged art practice explores many issues that have touched her life and that of her community: climate change, environmental illness,…
April 14, 2015
2014 Neighborhood Design Studio
Undergraduate Studio
Winter 2014
Instructor: Julie Johnson
March 18, 2015
River Cities: Historical and Contemporary SYMPOSIUM
2015 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium (May 8–9, 2015) To register, complete the REGISTRATION FORM. The cost for both days is $65 ($40 for students). Registration is required and is first-come, first-served. Organized by Thaisa Way, Dumbarton Oaks senior fellow and professor of landscape architecture at University of Washington. Resilience and adaptability are key elements of viable urbanism….
February 26, 2015
Winter 2015 Review Schedule
FRI 3/13 LA 474 – Design/Build Studio: 11th Ave NW Street End Park (Winterbottom) Noon – 1:30pm Gould 110 LA 302 – Urban Sites Studio: City Repair at Battery and Bell (Smith+Winterbottom) 2:00 – 5:30pm Gould 100 + Gould Court MON 3/16 LA 402 – Urban Tilling: Projects for South Park (Parrett) 9am – Noon Gould 114 + Gould Court LA 502 – Surging Seas…
February 22, 2015
Join us Monday — Celebrating the Lunar New Year with a guest speaker from Hong Kong.
Mon Feb. 23 | 12-1pm | Gould 100 Details Here
RE-ENVISIONING COMMUNITY SPACE IN HONG KONG with Hendrik Tieben
RE-ENVISIONING COMMUNITY SPACE IN HONG KONG Monday, Feb. 23, 2015 12-1pm, Gould 100 Hendrik Tieben Associate Professor & Director M.Sc. in Urban Design Program School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong KongHendrik TIEBEN is Associate Professor and Director of the M.Sc. in Urban Design program at the School of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)….
February 10, 2015
The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design (UW Press, Spring 2015)
UPCOMING BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS Friday May 1 — An Evening with Richard Haag. Come celebrate the life, work, humor, and remarkable influence of Richard Haag, and the new monograph on his work, written by Thaisa Way. Peter Miller Books, 2326 Second Avenue. 6-8pm. Wednesday June 10 — Modern Impacts of Pacific Northwest Landscape Design. Thaisa Way and Rich Haag will sit…
Detroit Future City: Design for Rapid Change
We had a great time at the sold out Detroit Future City: Design for Rapid Change a few weeks ago. The evening kicked off with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Eric Becker’s experiences in telling the stories of Detroit. AIA fellow, President of Hamilton Anderson Associates, and Detroit native, Rainy Hamilton laid out his vision for the future of Detroit,…
January 27, 2015
BLA Information Meeting
BLA Information Meeting, Thursday, February 12th, 2015, 3:30-4:20, Gould 142. Come hear about the BLA Program, application process and view portfolio samples. BLA applications are due March 30, 2015, for the following Autumn program.
January 26, 2015
Campus Landscape Framework Symposium is Now Available for Viewing!
Part 1: Welcome Part 2: Laurie Olin Part 3: Shannon Nichol Part 4: Mauricio Villarreal Part 5: panel discussion Part 6: Ken Greenberg
January 14, 2015
Brown Bag: Dan Pitera Syncopating the Urban Landscape, Jan 23rd 2015 12-1pm
Dan Pitera is a political and social activist masquerading as an architect. He is presently the Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. Mr. Pitera co-led the Civic Engagement process for the Detroit Works Long Term Planning initiated by Mayor Bing in 2010. On January…
December 8, 2014
2014 Croatia
Design-Build Study Abroad
Autumn 2014
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
November 13, 2014
Detroit Future City Panel
Detroit Future City: Design for Rapid Change Please join the University of Washington’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Professional Advisory Committee, ARCADE, the UW Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies, and UW Department of Urban Design and Planning at the Frye Art Museum for a panel discussion on Detroit with thought leaders who are at the heart…
November 10, 2014
DI Ranking 2015 – MLA No. 3
The Department of Landscape Architecture’s MLA graduate degree program was ranked third in the nation in the Deans Survey by DesignIntelligence of most admired graduate landscape architecture programs “for its forward thinking and focus on urban ecological design.” The survey compiled the responses of 42 Landscape Architecture Deans and Department Heads, gathering their opinions about programs in…
November 3, 2014
Tea Talk: Richard Hartlage, The Work of Land Morphology, Nov 5th at 4:30
Richard Hartlage will present the work of Land Morphology a design-based practice specializing in residential, commercial, and public projects on both coasts. They are interested in the intersection between built form, great planting design, and artful landforms and objects. Projects presented will include Chihuly Gardens and Glass, In Situ Estate, and the Seattle Opera floral installations….
October 28, 2014
Green Futures Lab promotes Regional Open Space Strategy with new website
The Green Futures Lab is thrilled to unveil OpenSpacePugetSound.org, the new website for the Regional Open Space Strategy (ROSS). With interest in the ROSS continuing to grow, we designed the website to help public and private sector politicians, planners, and policy professionals understand the initiative. You can learn about the purpose of the ROSS, our…
October 14, 2014
Tea Talk: Kara Weaver + Jordan Bell (GGN), Pike Pine Renaissance, Oct 15th at 4:30
Kara Weaver (BLA 2005) and Jordan Bell (MLA 2012) of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) will present the Pike-Pine Renaissance project, a system of streetscape design guidelines for Downtown Seattle. GGN proposes a rediscovery of simple urban street standards to create an elegant, timeless base for ever-changing street life and installations. The TeaTalk will take place…
October 7, 2014
2014 UW Graduate School Distinguished Thesis Award to Betsy Anderson
Congratulations to Betsy Anderson (MLA ’14) for receiving the 2014 UW Graduate School Distinguished Thesis Award! Graphics from her thesis entitled “Deconstructing Hydrologies: Reviving the memory of water in Dumbarton Oaks Park” can be viewed here. Thesis Advisors: Thaisa Way (chair), Ken Yocom, and John Findlay (History) Thesis Abstract: The collision of stormwater and cultural landscape exposes…
UW//LA Students Win ASLA Honors in Three Categories
ASLA has awarded our department Honors Awards in three categories this year! Check it out: Communications – Honor Award Adaptive Streets: Strategies for Transforming the Urban Right-of-Way by Mike Schwindeller + Jordan Lewis | Faculty Advisor: Nancy Rottle [full booklet] Student Collaboration – Honor Award Gardens, Greenspace and Health in Eliseo Collazos, Lima, Peru by…
September 23, 2014
UW//LA Departmental Lecture | Rainer Schmidt, Technical University Berlin
Mon 9/29 | UW//LA Autumn Quarter Departmental Lecture Rainer Schmidt, RSLA GmbH Working from Location 6:00 pm | Gould 322 Rainer Schmidt reports on his work, pointing to the global needs and local reaches of landscape architecture in the projects of RSLA GmbH Landscape Architects and Urban Planners. These projects show complex, innovative answers to…
July 19, 2014
2014 Fisher House
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2014
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 2014
2014 JCCCW Kintsugi Garden
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2014
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
June 23, 2014
Manzo Awarded for Excellence in Teaching
Lynne Manzo, environmental psychologist and LA faculty, was nominated by students this spring and selected for recognition for her devotion to education and to her students. The Lionel Pries Teaching Award was created by students in the CBE in the mid-1980s, to recognize superior teaching by a faculty member in the College. Congratulations to Lynne…
June 19, 2014
Rottle Elevated as ASLA Fellow
UW LA faculty member Nancy Rottle has been elevated as a fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects. Her nomination in the Knowledge category recognizes her accomplishments as a researcher and educator. Nancy joins 32 other landscape architects just elevated to the Council of Fellows for 2014. Congratulations Nancy! ASLA Announcement can be found…
May 29, 2014
Richard Haag Oral History
In this dynamic series of interviews Haag shares stories of the education, travel and work experiences that helped shape his personal design philosophy and guided his influential career. As design critic Alexandra Lange has noted: “Richard Haag basically made industrial-chic landscapes happen.” Haag, who is acclaimed for his innovative environmental and ecological design solutions, is…
May 22, 2014
Kintsugi Garden, Design Build Studio Opening Dedication
UW // LA 2014 Design Build Studio in Seattle is nearing completion! The JCCCW Kintsugi Garden on Weller St. will host an opening dedication on Thursday, June 12th, at 5PM. Come out and support the students and community as they celebrate a beautiful design build project coming to its close.
May 21, 2014
Spring Quarter 2014 Final Reviews
Spring quarter studio final reviews are coming up! Visitors are welcome. Wednesday, June 4th: Little Saigon: Placemaking & Community Economic Development 2:00-5:00pm LA 503 (Hou) Gould 110 + Gould Court Friday, June 6th: Visions for the Washington Park Arboretum North Peninsula 2:00-5:00pm LA 303 (Johnson + Yocom) Gould 110 + Gould Court
May 15, 2014
Neighborhood Design Studio Exhibits at Phinneywood Art Walk
The Phinneywood Art Walk exhibit was a terrific success! UW LA Neighborhood Design studio showed work at the exhibit. It was great to see the students talking with community members, and to see people really looking over the projects. Cathy Tuttle of Seattle Greenways posted images on the organization’s Facebook page to draw more people…
May 3, 2014
Exhibit of BLA Student Work Showing in Gould This Week
See the exhibit! Sunday, May 3 through Wednesday May 7 Gould Court and 3rd Floor walls.
May 1, 2014
Iain Robertson Shares Travels at Tea Talk
Wed 5/07 | Dept. TeaTalks – Iain Robertson, UWLA | 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 110 Professor Iain Robertson will share about his recent travels to Scotland, England, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, and Iceland. Bring your tea mugs! Yunan tea from China will be served at our last TeaTalk of the year.
April 25, 2014
Lynne Manzo Book Receives EDRA Achievement Award
The EDRA Achievement Award is given in recognition of a specific contribution or achievement that advances the field of environmental design research through the generation of knowledge, public service, or professional practice, for coherent recognizable body of work or activities by an individual or group. Recipients for 2014 include Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods…
April 24, 2014
Society of Wetland Scientists Research Grant to Fund UW Student
Congrats to Matt MacDonald (MLA ’15) recipient of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Chapter Research Grant. His application for Design and Comparative Evaluation of Floating Wetlands in the Puget Sound Lowlands: Water Temperature Control, Plant Performance, and Aquatic Habitat was evaluated by a panel of wetland scientists and was selected to be funded. Matt’s introduction to…
April 18, 2014
CBE Cosponsoring Geodesign Forum May 7th
Pacific Northwest Geodesign Forum: Geodesign for a Sustainable World May 7th, 2014 8am – 4pm University of Washington, Seattle Campus, Husky Union Building (HUB) Lyceum How will geospatial technologies contribute more broadly and deeply to a changing world? Personnel from four UW colleges and professionals from the greater Seattle region have come together to organize a…
April 17, 2014
Tea Talk: Sarah Geurkink, UW Farm, April 23rd at 4:30
UW Farm manager Sarah Geurkink will share about the history, mission, and current programs taking place at the UW Farm’s three sites at the Botany Greenhouse, Center for Urban Horticulture, and Mercer Court Apartments. She will speak at 4:30PM on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, in Gould 110. Download the flier as a PDF.
April 15, 2014
Integration and the Built Environment Symposium
BE*connected: A Symposium on Integration & the Built Environment Hosted by the UW CBE Ph.D. Program in the Built Environment Friday 25 April 2014, 9:30–12:30 in Gould Court Following last year’s successful ‘BE More’ symposium on interdisciplinarity, the ‘BE Connected’ symposium will engage the active synergies of collaborative research and multidisciplinary scholarship in the built environment focusing…
April 9, 2014
UW Students Designing Proposed U-Dist Parklet
Businesses and residents near 43rd and University Way are in conversation with SDOT and grad students in Landscape Architecture about extending the city’s pilot Parklet program with a new site on the Ave. Read about it at The Daily.
April 2, 2014
UW Faculty Recognized by Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
Three University of Washington faculty won awards at the CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) Conference this year in Baltimore. The council gave Ben Spencer the CELA Excellence in Service Learning Award. Nancy Rottle won the Excellence in Studio Teaching Award. Professor Emeritus David Streatfield was inducted as a CELA Fellow. Also pictured here in front…
Student Project Seeds Future of Desolate Peru Community
Newfound hope, sense of investment spring from 29 household gardens funded by UW By Bobbi Nodell | HSNewsBeat | Link to original article For a group of UW students looking to improve lives in a desert slum in Peru, creating green space has been a daunting challenge. But the rewards have been great: Flowers and vegetables…
March 27, 2014
Thaisa Teaching Thunderdome Style
(courtesy of UC Berkeley) The University of California Berkeley has launched a debate series that highlights this year’s 100th anniversary of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Professor Thaisa Way was invited to debate with professor Randy Hester in a “generational face-off.” The following is an excerpt from a article published on January…
March 6, 2014
BrownBag Presentation | Scott Melbourne, University of Hong Kong
Scott Jennings Melbourne is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong who possesses more than a decade of experience in professional practice. His research investigates the role of landscape as a medium and discipline in rapidly developing regions, with a particular focus on the dramatic post-reform transformations of contemporary China….
March 4, 2014
Kongjian Yu Lecture Online
The recent lecture by Dr. Kongjian Yu is now up on the BE Vimeo page. Take a look
February 27, 2014
Green Seed Fund brings sustainable ideas to life
(article by Matthew Spaw courtesy of The Daily of the University of Washington) The Green Seed Fund, working off of the university’s Climate Action Plan to achieve a net output of zero greenhouse gases, is helping to make the ideas of those at the UW a reality. The Green Seed Fund grants funding to select…
February 10, 2014
Improving the Lives of Syrians
by Malda Takieddine (MLA Candidate ’14) As a Syrian, I’ve spent the past three years struggling to accept what is happening in Syria. In particular, I’ve been trying to find a way to contribute and help the people of my country, while I am more than 6000 miles away. As a landscape architect student at…
February 4, 2014
UW//LA Departmental Lecture | Kongjian Yu, Turenscape
Mon 2/24 | UW//LA Winter Departmental Lecture Kongjian Yu, Turenscape Designed Ecologies and the Creation of Deep Form 6:00 pm | Arch 147 This lecture will offer one (1) Professional Development Hour (PDH). Please register here if you wish to receive credit. Abstract: Known as China’s Olmsted by many, and a “Force of Nature” by Time Magazine,…
UW//LA Departmental Lecture | Christine Gaspar, Center for Urban Pedagogy
Thu 2/20 | UW//LA Winter Departmental Lecture Christine Gaspar, Center for Urban Pedagogy Designing for Democracy Seattle Central Public Library – Microsoft Auditorium 5:30 pm – Seattle 2035 Open House 6:30 pm – Designing for Democracy: The Center for Urban Pedagogy Lecture / Q+A 8:30 pm – End of Program Learning Objective: Learn how…
February 3, 2014
UW//LA TeaTalk No. 4 | Deb Guenther, Mithun
Don’t forget your tea mugs! Wed 02/19 <– NEW DATE ! | UW//LA Professional TeaTalk Series Deb Guenther, Mithun – Integrated Design for a Resilient Future 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 Deb’s bio can be found here: http://mithun.com/about/leadership/debra_guenther/a/
January 24, 2014
BrownBag Presentation | Ah-Yeon Kim, University of Seoul
Ah-Yeon Kim is both an academic and practicing landscape architect who leads a design network, STUDIOS terra. She is a coordinator for the International Workshop on Urban Landscape,a collaborative and multidisciplinary student workshop. Her works range from art installations, gardens, parks and a community design for a village in the civilian control area near…
January 22, 2014
Winter Quarter Events – 2014
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January 9, 2014
UW//LA TeaTalk No. 3 | Guy Michaelsen, Berger Partnership
Bring your tea mugs! Wed 01/15 | UW//LA Professional TeaTalk Series Guy Michaelsen, Berger Partnership – Current Fixations 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 Guy will share several recent projects that reflect his current design passions that include celebrating The un-natural nature of urban ecology, embracing principals of art in design of the public realm and the power…
December 17, 2013
MLA Studio Project Nominee for 2013 Sustainability Leadership Award
The 2013 Graduate Fall Studio’s work in the South Park neighborhood has been nominated for a 2013 Sustainability Leadership Award from Sustainable Seattle in the Transforming Spaces Category. The studio worked closely with the firm, Urban Systems Design to design and build four rain gardens at the intersection of 12th Avenue South and South Southern Street in the…
Ben Spencer wins a PID Global Award
This year Professor Ben Spencer’s work in Lima, Peru has been awarded a Public Interest Design Global Award by Ecole Spécial d’Architecture, Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network for going beyond physical design impacts to achieve benefits at multiple levels and scales within the community. The project, “Comunidad Ecologica Saludable” focus area…
November 27, 2013
UW Team takes Third Place in Seoul
Shu Keui Hsu (MLA), Janice Chen (BLA) and Youngsuk Jun (MLA) On October 31st, 2013, a University of Washington Team consisting of both graduate and undergraduate landscape architecture students went to Seoul, Korea to compete in the final round of Seoul Urban Design 2013 competition. The theme of the competition was “Toward Urban Integration”, focusing…
November 12, 2013
Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture
Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture / an Introduction: reconstructing, through photographs, recordings, videos, and textual records in the King County Archives, the events and activities of the1979 design symposium and the earthworks that grew out of it. See also the full exhibit Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture for a comprehensive history of the project, including unedited artist…
UW//LA Departmental Lecture | Steven Handel, Rutgers University
Thu 11/21 | UW//LA Autumn Departmental Lecture Steven Handel, Rutgers University Dreams and Nightmares of Urban Restoration Ecology 6:30pm | Arch Hall 147 Learning Objective: Learn ecological constraints and opportunities for restoring ecological function to urban degraded lands. This lecture will offer one (1) Professional Development Hour (PDH). Please register here if you wish…
November 8, 2013
UW on D.I. Top 5 List
The journal DesignIntelligence rankings for 2014 place the UW’s Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programs in the top five most admired programs nationwide! Based on a survey to over 100 education leaders in the country, the rankings cited the BLA program for its design/build offerings and its focus on urban ecological design, with the…
November 7, 2013
CBE ScanDesign Lecture | Bianca M. Hermansen
Wed 11/13 | CBE ScanDesign Lecture Bianca M. Hermansen, CITITEK, Copenhagen: Performative Urban Form 6:00pm | Arch Hall 147 Bianca M. Hermansen is an architect MAA, Urban Designer and Ph.D researcher at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. She is also founder and CEO of CITITEK, a research based consultancy. In addition…
October 31, 2013
UW//LA TeaTalk No. 2 | Isami Kinoshita, Chiba University
Bring your tea mugs! Wed 11/6 | UW//LA Professional TeaTalk Series Isami Kinoshita, Chiba University – Post-Disaster Rebuilding: Children’s Lost Landscape after 3.11 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 After 3.11, the children and youth of Minami Sanriku town lost not only the landscape of their homes and neighborhoods, but also their outdoor spaces for…
October 30, 2013
City Rebelling, City Remaking | Chair Jeff Hou’s New Books
Jeff Hou has two new books published in Taiwan this autumn. The first book, 城市造反 City Rebelling, is a translated and re-edited version of Insurgent Public Space (Routledge 2010) which received the Places Book Award in 2012. The new version is a collection of ten chapters from the original book with the addition of a new chapter…
October 13, 2013
Iain Robertson’s Cultivating Creativity…
CULTIVATING CREATIVITY IN DESIGN EDUCATION & BEYOND This presentation given to faculty and graduate students in Psychology & Pedagogy at the University of Bergen in May 2013 illustrates how the exercises used in Iain Robertson’s Cultivating Creativity classes (one in the UW Honors program in 2011, and one for design students at Huazhong University of Science…
October 10, 2013
UW//LA TeaTalk No. 1 | Nicolas Morin, Barker LA
Join us for the first TeaTalk of the academic year! Wed 10/16 | UW//LA Professional TeaTalk Series Nicolas Morin, Barker LA – Community-Based Design: Barton St. P-Patch and more 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 322 For Nicolas Morin, one of the joys of practicing landscape architecture is the opportunity to collaborate with communities. Whether a…
October 8, 2013
2013 Croatia
Design-Build Study Abroad
Early Autumn 2013
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
October 2, 2013
2013 ASLA Student Honor Award to Nikkei Manor Courtyard
Congratulations to Daniel Winterbottom and students of the Spring 2012 Design/Build studio for winning another ASLA Student Honor Award in Community Service!!! Check out the ASLA Award Page here: Ichi-Go Ichi-E Garden Courtyard (Nikkei Manor Assisted Living) “Through an intense collaboration between students and residents of Nikkei Manor, the “Ichi-Go Ichi-E” garden addresses the unique needs of the…
September 25, 2013
Presentation by James Rojas
Imagination by Participation James Rojas, founder of Place It! & Latino Urban Forum Date: Monday, September 30, 2013 Time: 12 to 1pm Place: Gould 440 James Rojas holds an MA in City Planning and an MS in Architecture Studies from MIT. He works as a city and transportation planner, and is the founder of the…
Runstad Fellows Presentation
The UW Runstad Affiliate Fellows present: Place Capital: A Live Documentary Film About Cities October 3rd, 6:30pm From travels to Berlin, Krakow, Fukushima and Detroit, this year’s Runstad Affiliate Fellows featuring our very own Ken Yocom as they present a live documentary film about the changing nature of cities. From centers of trade to nodes…
September 23, 2013
Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications, Prof Lynne Manzo’s new book just released
Professor Manzo’s new book, Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications has just been released September 2013. “Lynne Manzo and Patrick Devine-Wright have made an excellent work in assembling an international and interdisciplinary team of authors, who provide up-to-date knowledge of current state of research on theoretical, methodological, and applied issues related to one…
Autumn Quarter Events
We want to wish all of our returning students and new students a big UW Welcome to the CBE! This is scheduled to be a great year with a bunch of wonderful speakers and events. This is a tentative list of events that will be sponsored by the Landscape Department this Fall. Be sure to…
Barbara Swift Elevated to ASLA Fellow!
The American Society of Landscape Architects has elevated Barbara Swift to the ASLA Council of Fellows for her work. The Designation of Fellow is conferred on individuals in recognition of exceptional accomplishments over a sustained period of time. Below are some examples of the type of work Barbara Swift at her firm Swift and…
September 8, 2013
2013 New Orleans
Design-Build Study Abroad
Summer 2013
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 2013
2012 Croatia
Design-Build Study Abroad
Autumn 2012
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
2009 Skyway
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2009
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
2008 Fircrest Therapeutic Garden
Fircrest School is the only state Residential Habilitation Center located in the Puget Sound urban corridor and provides housing and services for two hundred of the most severely disabled residents of Washington State*. The eighty six acre facility is located in Shoreline WA, just north of Seattle. The existing campus was built upon the infrastructure…
2007 White Center
Project Statement: A neglected park in a striving and diverse community was redesigned to reflect and celebrate its many cultures using art, ecology and recreation. An attached wetland area previously overrun by invasive species was restored. The park demonstrates green building practices, serves as a model for residents to learn sustainable strategies, and functions as…
2006 Guatemala Phase 1
March 12, 2013
2013 Neighborhood Design Studio
Undergraduate Studio
Winter 2013
Instructor: Julie Johnson
August 1, 2012
2012 Nikkei Manor
Design-Build Studio
2012
Daniel Winterbottom
March 15, 2012
2012 Neighborhood Design Studio
Neighborhood Design Undergraduate Studio
Winter 2012
Instructor: Julie Johnson
June 8, 2011
2011 Monicas Village Place
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2011
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
March 15, 2011
Design Activism Studio: Winter 2011
Design Activism Study Abroad Studio
Winter 2011
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
December 8, 2010
2010 Croatia: Creating Places of Nurture for Disabled Children
Design-Build Study Abroad
Autumn 2010
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 2010
2010 Healing Garden at Fisher House
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2010
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
December 15, 2009
Materials Making Landscape
Undergraduate + Graduate materials course
Autumn 2009
Instructors: Daniel Winterbottom + Ben Spencer
September 8, 2009
2009 Bosnia
Design-Build Study Abroad
Summer 2009
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
March 15, 2009
2009 King Street Visioning Project
Design Activism Studio
Spring 2009
Instructor: Jeff Hou
BE Lab 2009: Taoping, China
Design Activism Study Abroad
2009
Instructor: Jeff Hou
March 8, 2009
2009 Guatemala Phase 3
Design-Build Study Abroad
Winter 2009
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
March 15, 2007
2007 White Center Open Space
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2007
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
2007 International Childrens Park
Design Activism Studio
2007
Instructor: Jeff Hou
2007 DIYism Workshop: Taipei
Design Activism Study Abroad
2007
Instructor: Jeff Hou
March 8, 2007
2007 Guatemala Phase 2
Design-Build Study Abroad
Winter 2007
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
September 15, 2006
2006 Night Market Eventscape
Design Activism Studio
2006
Instructor: Jeff Hou
July 8, 2006
2006 Varey Garden Renovation
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2006
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
September 15, 2005
2005 Field Studio Meinung, Taiwan
Design Activism Study Abroad
Summer 2005
Instructor: Jeff Hou
June 15, 2005
2005 Seattle Waterfront
Design Activism Studio
Spring 2005
Instructor: Jeff Hou
June 8, 2005
2005 Pete Gross House Healing Garden
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2005
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
March 15, 2005
2005 Design Rescue: Aceh
Design Activism Studio
Winter 2005
Instructor: Jeff Hou
2005 International District Open Space
Design Activism Studio
Winter 2005
Instructor: Jeff Hou
September 15, 2004
2004 Field Studio: Quanzhou, China
Design Activism Field Study
Summer 2004
Instructor: Jeff Hou
July 8, 2004
2004 Hamamatsu, Japan
Design-Build Study Abroad
Spring 2009
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
2004 Outdoor Learning Environment
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2004
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 2003
2003 UW Healing Garden
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2003
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 2002
2002 University Heights
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2002
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
June 15, 2002
2002 Seattles International District
Design Activism Studio
Spring 2002
Instructor: Jeff Hou
July 8, 2001
2001 Flower Show
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2000
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 2000
2000 Incarnation New York City
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2000
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
2000 Flower Show
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 2000
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 1999
1999 Cancer Lifeline
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 1999
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 1998
1998 Santa Ursula, Mexico
Design-Build Study Abroad
Autumn 1998
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
1998 Cascade Community Park
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 1998
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 1997
1997 Sandpoint Outdoor Classroom
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 1997
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
June 8, 1997
1997 Garden of Eatin
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 1997
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
July 8, 1996
1996 Gordon Varey Memorial Garden
Design-Build BLA Capstone
Spring 1996
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
