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 an open source digital archive of case studies that demonstrate successful strategies for implementing designs and programs that increase access to high quality nature and…
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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 Seattle Street End project, highlighting its potential to enhance community access to the water. With 142 street end parks scattered around Seattle, this guide provides…
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, explore through various senses, and even stimulate memory and reduce stress. For a more in-depth look at the Sensory Garden, and an insight into the…
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), and the incorporation of landscape processes, or change, as a design medium. The course posits that “belongingness” and citizenships must be continuously practiced and verified,…
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 also asked them to define agents (human and/or more-than-human and/or non-human materials) and concepts and types of processes enacted by their agents in this imagined…
Green Futures Lab Students Win Climate Solutions Prize
Did you know that UW Green Futures Lab Scan Design Interns won one of the two Climate Solutions prizes, as part of CBE’s Climate Solutions symposium this past spring?! There were over 40 entries and Constantine Chrisafis’ (MLA/MUP ’25) posters describing our Designing the Climate Responsible City project and publication won the prize in the Communications category. The content and graphics included Erin Irby’s and Sarah Lukin’s (both MLA ’23) research and design from 2022-23, and added Constantine’s and Briana Weeke’s (MUP ’24) investigation and communications from this…
Landscape Architecture 300 Students Present in First Summer Review
Landscape Architecture 300: Introduction to Landscape Architecture is a course designed to introduce and immerse new students to the field of landscape architecture. Taught by lecturer Shaunta Butler and assisted by reader/grader Piper Sallquist (MLA ’26), this intensive summer course covers a breadth of topics in a short time frame–giving students a first taste of what studio courses have to offer in the UW landscape architecture program. Instructors aid and facilitate students in learning and practicing core skills…
Landscape Architecture Students Design and Build Microhome
Population Tiny Home UW BLA students, Hanbeom Lee, Vasilisa Karp, and Jessica Liao, participated in the MICROHOME Tiny House Design Competition. During their research on the chosen topic of housing for individuals experiencing homelessness, they discovered the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) and decided to build a tiny house themselves in order to better understand how these houses are constructed in order to improve upon them. The trio of students were able to realize their thorough plans and create a…
Wapato Pond Opening at UW Farm
Overview of the new wapato pond at the UW Farm designed and built by MLA student Kove Janeski.
Kline Galland Quint Family Sensory Garden Celebration
On June 6th, 2024, Kline Galland community members and staff gathered with our 2024 UWLA Design Build students and families to dedicate the Quint Family Sensory Garden.