Vincent Javet

Assistant Teaching Professor + Undergraduate Program Director

Vincent Javet [jah-vay] is a Swiss-Canadian designer, researcher, and educator. Trained as a landscape architect (MLA, University of Toronto) and urban planner (BURPl, Toronto Metropolitan University), he serves as Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington where he directs the Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Program and leads the Scan Design Foundation’s Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Studio Program. His work explores relationships between technology, ecology, urbanism, and making.

Vincent practices with Unknown Studio (Remote) and has previously worked in Canada, Europe, and the United States with offices including West 8 (New York City/ Rotterdam) and North Design Office (Toronto). In addition to his design experience, Vincent has held research positions with Platform for Resilient Urbanism – Centre for Landscape Research (CLR), the Green Roof Information Testing Laboratory (GRIT Lab) at the University of Toronto, and Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC).

Among other accomplishments, Vincent has been a Landscape Architecture Foundation CSI Faculty Research Fellow and was an exhibiting artist at the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism for his collaborative project “Beneath the City, Rivers”. His work has been published in Ground Magazine, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Living Architecture Monitor, Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD), Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS) and the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture (JoDLA).