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This year Professor Ben Spencer’s work  in Lima, Peru has been awarded a Public Interest Design Global Award by Ecole Spécial d’Architecture, Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network for going beyond physical design impacts to achieve benefits at multiple levels and scales within the community. The project, “Comunidad Ecologica Saludable” focus area was a city in Northern Lima Peru,  Lomas de Zapallal (LdZ) which is characterized as an informal urban “slum.”  It has a population of 27,000 and…

Shu Keui Hsu (MLA), Janice Chen (BLA) and Youngsuk Jun (MLA) On October 31st, 2013, a University of Washington Team consisting of both graduate and undergraduate landscape architecture students went to Seoul, Korea to compete in the final round of Seoul Urban Design 2013 competition. The theme of the competition was “Toward Urban Integration”, focusing on the eco-friendly regeneration of the expressway, Jemulpo-gil and the adjacent blocks in the west region of Seoul. The competition had around 200 teams from…

Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture / an Introduction: reconstructing, through photographs, recordings, videos, and textual records in the King County Archives, the events and activities of the1979 design symposium and the earthworks that grew out of it. See also the full exhibit Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture for a comprehensive history of the project, including unedited artist interviews.

The journal DesignIntelligence rankings for 2014 place the UW’s Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture programs in the top five most admired programs nationwide! Based on a survey to over 100 education leaders in the country, the rankings cited the BLA program for its design/build offerings and its focus on urban ecological design, with the MLA program admired for for its excellent resources, design activism and international programs.

Jeff Hou has two new books published in Taiwan this autumn. The first book, 城市造反 City Rebelling, is a translated and re-edited version of Insurgent Public Space (Routledge 2010) which received the Places Book Award in 2012. The new version is a collection of ten chapters from the original book with the addition of a new chapter on peri-urban activism in Hong Kong written by Shumei Huang (BE PhD 2012). The second book, 反造城市 City Remaking, is a companion volume with case…

CULTIVATING CREATIVITY IN DESIGN EDUCATION & BEYOND This presentation given to faculty and graduate students in Psychology & Pedagogy at the University of Bergen in May 2013 illustrates how the exercises used in Iain Robertson’s Cultivating Creativity classes (one in the UW Honors program in 2011, and one for design students at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Autumn 2012) derive from design studio pedagogy.

Congratulations to Daniel Winterbottom and students of the Spring 2012 Design/Build studio for winning another ASLA Student Honor Award in Community Service!!! Check out the ASLA Award Page here:   Ichi-Go Ichi-E Garden Courtyard (Nikkei Manor Assisted Living) “Through an intense collaboration between students and residents of Nikkei Manor, the “Ichi-Go Ichi-E” garden addresses the unique needs of the elderly Japanese American residents. The team integrated the therapeutic and restorative benefits of nature, referenced important cultural traditions and provided universal access to the elderly…

Professor Manzo’s new book, Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications has just been released September 2013. “Lynne Manzo and Patrick Devine-Wright have made an excellent work in assembling an international and interdisciplinary team of authors, who provide up-to-date knowledge of current state of research on theoretical, methodological, and applied issues related to one of the most fascinating and elusive concepts of environmental psychology.” – M. Vittoria Giuliani, ISTC-CNR, Italy In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together…

The American Society of Landscape Architects has elevated Barbara Swift to the ASLA Council of Fellows for her work.  The Designation of Fellow is conferred on individuals in recognition of exceptional accomplishments over a sustained period of time.   Below are some examples of the type of work Barbara Swift at her firm Swift and Company produce. Grand Teton National Park   Ballard Commons   The Landscape Department is proud to have Barbara Swift on our Professional Advisory Committee where…