Category: Event

Kara Weaver (BLA 2005) and Jordan Bell (MLA 2012) of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) will present the Pike-Pine Renaissance project, a system of streetscape design guidelines for Downtown Seattle. GGN proposes a rediscovery of simple urban street standards to create an elegant, timeless base for ever-changing street life and installations. The TeaTalk will take place at 4:30PM on Wednesday, October 15th in Gould 322. Bring your tea mugs! Download the flier as a PDF.    

  Mon 9/29 | UW//LA  Autumn Quarter Departmental Lecture Rainer Schmidt, RSLA GmbH Working from Location 6:00 pm | Gould 322 Rainer Schmidt reports on his work, pointing to the global needs and local reaches of landscape architecture in the projects of RSLA GmbH Landscape Architects and Urban Planners. These projects show complex, innovative answers to regionally and locally very specific conditions, tracing history and telling the story of place in a new way. Rainer Schmidt has served as Professor for…

UW // LA 2014 Design Build Studio in Seattle is nearing completion! The JCCCW Kintsugi Garden on Weller St. will host an opening dedication on Thursday, June 12th, at 5PM. Come out and support the students and community as they celebrate a beautiful design build project coming to its close.

Spring quarter studio final reviews are coming up! Visitors are welcome. Wednesday, June 4th: Little Saigon: Placemaking & Community Economic Development 2:00-5:00pm LA 503 (Hou) Gould 110 + Gould Court   Friday, June 6th: Visions for the Washington Park Arboretum North Peninsula 2:00-5:00pm LA 303 (Johnson + Yocom) Gould 110 + Gould Court

See the exhibit!  Sunday, May 3 through Wednesday May 7  Gould Court and 3rd Floor walls.

Wed 5/07 | Dept. TeaTalks – Iain Robertson, UWLA | 4:30-5:30pm | Gould 110 Professor Iain Robertson will share about his recent travels to Scotland, England, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, and Iceland. Bring your tea mugs! Yunan tea from China will be served at our last TeaTalk of the year.

Pacific Northwest Geodesign Forum: Geodesign for a Sustainable World May 7th, 2014 8am – 4pm University of Washington, Seattle Campus, Husky Union Building (HUB) Lyceum How will geospatial technologies contribute more broadly and deeply to a changing world? Personnel from four UW colleges and professionals from the greater Seattle region have come together to organize a participatory forum on this topic. Bill Miller, co-inventor of Esri ModeBuilder, former Director of Esri Geodesign Services, co-coiner of the term “Geodesign”, and now Principal,…

UW Farm manager Sarah Geurkink will share about the history, mission, and current programs taking place at the UW Farm’s three sites at the Botany Greenhouse, Center for Urban Horticulture, and Mercer Court Apartments. She will speak at 4:30PM on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, in Gould 110. Download the flier as a PDF.

BE*connected: A Symposium on Integration & the Built Environment Hosted by the UW CBE Ph.D. Program in the Built Environment Friday 25 April 2014, 9:30–12:30 in Gould Court Following last year’s successful ‘BE More’ symposium on interdisciplinarity, the ‘BE Connected’ symposium will engage the active synergies of collaborative research and multidisciplinary scholarship in the built environment focusing on the connections and engagements members of the CBE community have made through their studies, work and community activities. BE Connected will bring together students…

Scott Jennings Melbourne is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong who possesses more than a decade of experience in professional practice. His research investigates the role of landscape as a medium and discipline in rapidly developing regions, with a particular focus on the dramatic post-reform transformations of contemporary China. Melbourne is a graduate of UW’s BLA program and holds the degree of MLA with Distinction from Harvard University.