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UW Farm and Landscape Architecture Autumn Roundup

Two MLA students–one current and one recent grad–were featured in the UW Farm’s Weekly Newsletter this fall! Check out their newsletter articles below: Around The Farm | 10.23.24 Camas Taking Root at the UW Farm by Kove Janeski, UW Farm Seasonal Staff, UW MLA ’24 The UW Farm manages three sites across the UW Seattle campus, all of which lie on unceded and heavily altered landscapes. While the UW Farm team strives to share urban agriculture practices with the broader…

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…

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…

Alumni Spotlight: Yuqing Zhang (MLA ’21)

This month we are highlighting alumni Yuqing Zhang! Yuqing graduated from the MLA program in 2021. With an interest in historical preservation and community engagement, she loves to combine holistic understandings of the past and present to project landscapes into the future. She grew up in the historic core of Suzhou, China. Frequent visits with her family to the city’s traditional Chinese gardens inspired her to earn a BELA from Suzhou University of Science and Technology. While there she returned to the gardens each week to sketch, observing change over the course of the day and the year. Driven by her curiosity about the Western landscape, Yuqing earned her MLA, with an Urban Design Certificate, from the University of Washington. Her capstone study “Bridging the Blue and Green” received the WASLA Student Merit Award. After graduating, she gained experience at GGLO bringing a range of urban development and streetscape work from design to construction. Since joining Reed Hilderbrand in 2022, Yuqing has worked on the Franklin Park Action Plan and on several institutional projects across the country. She spends her free time getting to know Boston’s history and the many famous and unique green spaces in the area. Read more about Yuqing’s career in landscape architecture…