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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 the UW, I chose to focus my thesis on improving the lives of Syrians in a refugee camp. In particular, I’m focusing on children and…

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, Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are the foremost landscape architecture firm in China today. The vast scale of China and its apparently boundless growth…

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 New York’s Center for Urban Pedagogy uses art and design to improve public engagement in shaping the built environment.  This lecture will offer one (1)…

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 the demilitarized zone in Korea. Working between the realms of practice and education, she strives to reveal the inherent poetry of landscapes over time.

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 of experiential opportunities created by embracing ephemeral interventions.

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 South Park Neighborhood. This intervention will result in 185,000 gallons of stormwater runoff from the street and adjacent sidewalks to be removed from the municipal…

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 was a city in Northern Lima Peru,  Lomas de Zapallal (LdZ) which is characterized as an informal urban “slum.”  It has a population of 27,000 and…

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 on the eco-friendly regeneration of the expressway, Jemulpo-gil and the adjacent blocks in the west region of Seoul. The competition had around 200 teams from…