Category: Event

Wed April 15 – TeaTalk: “Eco-art: An Antidote to Dystopia” – Beverly Naidus, Associate Professor, UW Tacoma, Gould 322, 4:30pm  

A Book Signing with the Capo di Capi of Northwest Landscape Architecture, Richard Haag FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 6 – 8 PM Peter Miller Books – 2326 Second Avenue On May Day, come celebrate the life, work, humor, and remarkable influence of Richard Haag, and the new monograph on his work. Rich will be here to sign copies of the book, written by Thaisa Way, and to insure that it be a grand and singular event, he will give a short talk midway in the evening. The Landscape…

Join us Tuesday April 21, 2015 at 6:30pm in Gould 322 for our Spring Lecture with Bas Smets of Belgian landscape architecture firm, Bureau Bas Smets.  http://www.bassmets.be/ What is a landscape ? How is it designed ? How is it constructed? The western notion of ‘landscape’ was invented in the fifteenth century to name a new genre in painting. In Europe, the first landscapes were painted in the Low Countries, when windows appeared in paintings. The frame provided by the…

Beverly Naidus  The TeaTalk will take place at 4:30PM on Wednesday, April 15th in Gould 322. Bring your tea mugs! Beverly Naidus is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Tacoma. Her interactive, socially engaged art practice explores many issues that have touched her life and that of her community:  climate change, environmental illness, racism, body hate, unemployment and the perils and rewards of activism.  Much of her work is temporary and site-specific, and has been viewed internationally in…

2015 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium (May 8–9, 2015) To register, complete the REGISTRATION FORM. The cost for both days is $65 ($40 for students). Registration is required and is first-come, first-served. Organized by Thaisa Way, Dumbarton Oaks senior fellow and professor of landscape architecture at University of Washington. Resilience and adaptability are key elements of viable urbanism. But how have these concepts been understood historically? And how do they shape the design and stewardship of urban landscapes today? The dynamic relationships between…

FRI 3/13 LA 474 – Design/Build Studio: 11th Ave NW Street End Park (Winterbottom) Noon – 1:30pm Gould 110 LA 302 – Urban Sites Studio:  City Repair at Battery and Bell (Smith+Winterbottom) 2:00 – 5:30pm Gould 100 + Gould Court MON 3/16 LA 402 – Urban Tilling: Projects for South Park (Parrett) 9am – Noon Gould 114 + Gould Court LA 502 – Surging Seas // Future City (Yocom) 9am – Noon McKinley Futures Studio Classroom LA 702 – Capstone Studio: Capitol Hill Eco-District (Rottle) 1:30 – 5:30pm Gould 110 + Gould Court TUES…

Mon Feb. 23 | 12-1pm | Gould 100 Details Here

RE-ENVISIONING COMMUNITY SPACE IN HONG KONG Monday, Feb. 23, 2015 12-1pm, Gould 100 Hendrik Tieben Associate Professor & Director M.Sc. in Urban Design Program School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong KongHendrik TIEBEN is Associate Professor and Director of the M.Sc. in Urban Design program at the School of Architecture of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prof. Tieben holds a doctoral degree of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), and since 2006 teaches architecture and urban design in Hong Kong. His research focuses…