Urban Ecological Design
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Welcome Julie Parrett as Interim Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
The College of Built Environments (CBE) is pleased to announce Julie Parrett, Associate Teaching Professor, as the Interim Chair for the Department of Landscape Architecture, effective October 14, 2024.
UWLA Affiliate Amy Wagenfeld launches the Learning Network of the Nature and Health Alliance
Affiliate Landscape Architecture Faculty Amy Wagenfeld along with Co-Director Wesley Tate, MD, and Program Director, Amelia Dupuis, are thrilled to announce the launch of The Learning Network of the Nature and Health Alliance. Funded by the REI Cooperative Action Fund REI Cooperative Action Fund, The Learning Network of the Nature and Health Alliance is…
Congratulations to UW 2024 ASLA Award winner
Congratulations to Lily Daniels (UWLA '24) on receiving the 2024 ASLA Award of Excellence in Communications, for their project "Where the Street Ends." This project was advised by UWLA department chair Ken Yocom. Project Statement: "Seattle's abundant waterways and shorelines create unique spaces where human experience and nature thrive together. This project delves into the…
Design Build Update: Quint Family Sensory Garden
The Quint Family Sensory Garden was UW Landscape Architecture's most recent design-build project, led by professor Daniel Winterbottom. The Kline Galland Home provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation services. Over the course of two quarters, UWLA students worked to design and realize the sensory garden. The garden was opened in June 2024, and provides space to rest,…
2024 Urban Sites Studio: Project 2
Winter Quarter 2024 | Instructors: Catherine De Almeida, Vincent Javet Students explored depaving and site-based strategies for reimagining parking lots in Pioneer Square and Capitol Hill as public spaces. The projects consider the material dimensions of each site, exploring potentials for material reuse, the breaking up of impervious surfaces (asphalt) to incorporate pervious surfaces (depaving),…
2024 Urban Sites Studio: Project 1
Winter Quarter 2024 | Instructors: Catherine De Almeida, Vincent Javet Students selected a story from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and were asked to imagine their modeled surfaces as a narrative landscape that interprets some of the main concepts, elements, characteristics, essences, and spatial and character cues, and how this plays out in their landscape. We…
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