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In this dynamic series of interviews Haag shares stories of the education, travel and work experiences that helped shape his personal design philosophy and guided his influential career. As design critic Alexandra Lange has noted: “Richard Haag basically made industrial-chic landscapes happen.” Haag, who is acclaimed for his innovative environmental and ecological design solutions, is a two-time recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architect’s President’s Award for Design Excellence for his work at Seattle’s Gas Works Park and Bloedel…

The Phinneywood Art Walk exhibit was a terrific success! UW LA Neighborhood Design studio showed work at the exhibit. It was great to see the students talking with community members, and to see people really looking over the projects. Cathy Tuttle of Seattle Greenways posted images on the organization’s Facebook page to draw more people to this fabulous exhibit. Check out the photos here.

The EDRA Achievement Award is given in recognition of a specific contribution or achievement that advances the field of environmental design research through the generation of knowledge, public service, or professional practice, for coherent recognizable body of work or activities by an individual or group. Recipients for 2014 include Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications, edited by Lynne Manzo and Patrick Devine-Wright, a book unique in exploring applications of place attachment theory and research to such topics as…

Congrats to Matt MacDonald (MLA ’15) recipient of the 2014 Pacific Northwest Chapter Research Grant. His application for Design and Comparative Evaluation of Floating Wetlands in the Puget Sound Lowlands: Water Temperature Control, Plant Performance, and Aquatic Habitat was evaluated by a panel of wetland scientists and was selected to be funded. Matt’s introduction to the project notes that faculty from University of Washington’s Department of Landscape Architecture, as well as the College of Built Environment’s Green Futures Lab continue…

Businesses and residents near 43rd and University Way are in conversation with SDOT and grad students in Landscape Architecture about extending the city’s pilot Parklet program with a new site on the Ave. Read about it at The Daily.

Three University of Washington faculty won awards at the CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) Conference this year in Baltimore. The council gave Ben Spencer the CELA Excellence in Service Learning Award. Nancy Rottle won the Excellence in Studio Teaching Award. Professor Emeritus David Streatfield was inducted as a CELA Fellow. Also pictured here in front of the Baltimore skyline are Barbara Deutch, Executive Director of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and Jeff Hou, UW Landscape Architecture Departmental Chair.

Newfound hope, sense of investment spring from 29 household gardens funded by UW By Bobbi Nodell | HSNewsBeat | Link to original article For a group of UW students looking to improve lives in a desert slum in Peru, creating green space has been a daunting challenge. But the rewards have been great: Flowers and vegetables are now growing behind trellises, fences and rock walls – a powerful example of hope for the community’s residents. Comunidad Ecologica Saludable  (Healthy Ecological Community)…

(courtesy of UC Berkeley) The University of California Berkeley has launched a debate series that highlights this year’s 100th anniversary of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Professor Thaisa Way was invited to debate with professor Randy Hester in a “generational face-off.” The following is an excerpt from a article published on January 30, 2014. ————————————————————————————————————————————- No more talking heads “In general, academic departments run talking heads lecture series where a guest comes in and does an hour…

(article by Matthew Spaw courtesy of The Daily of the University of Washington) The Green Seed Fund, working off of the university’s Climate Action Plan to achieve a net output of zero greenhouse gases, is helping to make the ideas of those at the UW a reality. The Green Seed Fund grants funding to select projects proposed by faculty, students, and staff of the UW that contribute to environmental sustainability. The fund is sponsored by the UW Office of Environmental…

The 2013 Graduate Fall Studio’s work in the South Park neighborhood has been nominated for a 2013 Sustainability Leadership Award from Sustainable Seattle in the Transforming Spaces Category.  The studio worked closely with the firm, Urban Systems Design to design and build four rain gardens at the intersection of 12th Avenue South and South Southern Street in the South Park Neighborhood. This intervention will result in 185,000 gallons of stormwater runoff from the street and adjacent sidewalks to be removed from the municipal…