Author: CBE

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 for her deserving recognition!

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 here. Nancy Rottle, of the Green Futures Research and Design Lab and the University of Washington, received her nomination, in Knowledge, from the Washington Chapter….

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 a two-time recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architect’s President’s Award for Design Excellence for his work at Seattle’s Gas Works Park and Bloedel…

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 to this fabulous exhibit. Check out the photos here.

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 and Applications, edited by Lynne Manzo and Patrick Devine-Wright, a book unique in exploring applications of place attachment theory and research to such topics as…

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 the project notes that faculty from University of Washington’s Department of Landscape Architecture, as well as the College of Built Environment’s Green Futures Lab continue…