In 2019, Jeff Hou received a Global Innovation Fund Research Award to explore how youth are engaging in social action and creative space-making in East Asia. Hou used the funding to host a three-day online workshop with special guests from the U.S. and East Asia to explore and share knowledge on current social movements across East Asia that reflect a desire for alternatives to the current socio-economic and socio-cultural structures, from social startups and new communal spaces to alternative economic…
Category: Landscape Architecture
Emily Saeger featured in Freeway Park Newsletter
Freeway Park In Profile The Faces of our Community Courtesy of Freeway Park Association Newsletter Name: Emily Adelia Saeger Occupation/s: Graduate student – Master’s of Landscape Architecture ‘23 @ UW & Botanical Artist What brings you to the Park? Freeway Park is a unique urban park design – it spans a major freeway, connecting two severed halves of downtown Seattle, yet still offers lush well established shrubs and trees, plus the iconic Lawerence Halprin fountains, which I hope to see full of…
Case Study Investigation (CSI): Measuring Health and Happiness at Dune Peninsula
Graduate student Rebecca Habtour discusses the research being done at Dune Peninsula as part of the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Case Study Investigation program. The research team includes Landscape Architecture professors Ken Yocom and Amy Wagenfield, who are CSI Research Fellows. | LAF
Remembering Bob Buchanan
It is with great sadness that we remember Professor Emeritus Robert Buchanan. He passed away on July 31, 2022 surrounded by his loved ones. Bob was a beloved professor and mentor, and the second Chair of our Department of Landscape Architecture from 1969-1995.
Future Food Forest: Radical Landscapes for Uncertain Times
Students in the summer studio led by Elizabeth Umbanhowar present their installation for the Seattle Design Festival titled “Future Food Forest: Radical Landscapes for Uncertain Times”. The festival took place August 20th and 21st at Lake Union Park from 10-7. Their installation at the Seattle Design Festival represent what a loss of biodiversity would look like from present into the future. Visitors could dye pieces of fabric at the altar presented in the middle of the archway that displayed different…
Summer Design Build 2022 in Traena, Norway
We welcome back some of our students who went to Traena, Norway to complete their Design/Build with Daniel Winterbottom and co-instructors Luka Jelusic and Mate Rupic! A group of 16 students, some matriculated at UW, left the US in the middle of June 2022 to work on a design/build project on a small island off the coast of Norway for five weeks. Students were asked to create a unique space that could be offered year-round to the local community as…
Professor Thaïsa Way Retires from the Department of Landscape Architecture
Professor Thaïsa Way has retired and is redirecting from the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington as she pursues her work at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, a research institute of Harvard University.
Spring Design Build and Celebration at Kline Galland
On June 7, 2022 Kline Galland celebrated the completion of this year’s Design Build with a dedication ceremony officiating the space as the Marty Bender Family Garden. Read more about this project.
Landscape architecture students help design local memorial garden
Led by Professor Daniel Winterbottom, a group of 30 landscape architecture students designed and constructed the new Marty Bender Family Garden, located at Kline Galland Home. | Seattle DJC
Sketching the Housing Crisis
Professor Daniel Winterbottom discusses sketching as a form of activism and the role it plays in the field of landscape architecture. | Landscape Architecture Magazine