Category: Event

Thu May 14 | Arch 147 | 6:00pm The lecture will focus on issues of ideas and craft in creating contemporary landscapes particularly at a larger scale. A number of new or recent projects will be discussed as case studies.  It will address issues of scale, infrastructure and sustainability in the urban context. This lecture will offer one (1) LA CES credit. Please register here if you wish to receive credit. Ken Smith, FASLA, is one of the best-known of a generation of…

Tue April 21 – Lecture: “The Invention of Landscape,” Bas Smets, Bureau Bas Smets, Gould 322, 6:30pm  

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…