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Spring Lecture: Bas Smets “The Invention of 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…

TeaTalk: Beverly Naidus

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…

River Cities: Historical and Contemporary SYMPOSIUM

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…

Winter 2015 Review Schedule

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…

RE-ENVISIONING COMMUNITY SPACE IN HONG KONG with Hendrik Tieben

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…

The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design (UW Press, Spring 2015)

  UPCOMING BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS Friday May 1 — An Evening with Richard Haag. Come celebrate the life, work, humor, and remarkable influence of Richard Haag, and the new monograph on his work, written by Thaisa Way.  Peter Miller Books, 2326 Second Avenue. 6-8pm.  Wednesday June 10 — Modern Impacts of Pacific Northwest Landscape Design. Thaisa Way and Rich Haag will sit down and offer a visual tour of the work he does, exploring the far-reaching influences of his work with ecologists, soil scientists, and how he…

Detroit Future City: Design for Rapid Change

We had a great time at the sold out Detroit Future City: Design for Rapid Change a few weeks ago. The evening kicked off with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Eric Becker’s experiences in telling the stories of Detroit. AIA fellow, President of Hamilton Anderson Associates, and Detroit native, Rainy Hamilton laid out his vision for the future of Detroit, and the collaborative planning process used to get there. Rainy reminded us that “good design is good business”, and “if you haven’t invested in Detroit it’s too…