Drawing in Design is a quarterly series of public lectures and weekend workshops for students that focus on representation in design and bring leading landscape architects and designers from across the country to our Department.
Category: Student Experience
Congratulations to our 2019 Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Olmsted Scholars
“Using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits.”
These are the qualities of students recognized through the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Olmsted Scholars Program, considered one of the most prestigious national …
Students draw from Canadian context
For one week in mid-June, students explored the similarities and differences between US and Canadian urban environments as they visited three Canadian cities: Montreal, Quebec City, and Ottawa.
The field study was led by Fritz Wagner, Professor Emeritus in the …
Gambling on Green: A Playground Renovation in Las Vegas, Nevada
The following article was written by MLA student Lauren Iversen for The Field, the ASLA Professional Practice Networks’ Blog.
Under my wide brimmed hat, with sweat dripping, I added paint, stroke by stroke, to the long wall. My legs …
Red Square: re-imagining an iconic UW landmark (UW Daily)
Landscape architecture students (both undergraduate and graduate) have teamed up with students from across the College of the Built Environment and around the University to compete in the Re-Imagining Red Square Design Competition.
The competition, which wraps up in early …
What Seattle Can Learn from Denmark about Community-Owned Housing (The Urbanist)
MLA student Roxanne Glick went to Copenhagen, Denmark to study their community-owned housing model. She brought what she learned from her time living in Denmark and studying their housing system back to Seattle. Roxanne shared some of her discoveries with …
ASLA Advocacy Week 2018
UWASLA Co-President Sophie Krause (MLA ’19) and ASLA Student Representative Darin Rosellini (BLA ’18) traveled to Washington D.C. for Advocacy Week in May 2018. This year’s ASLA Advocacy Week was “Landscape Architects Creating Resilient Solutions for Every Community.”
Here’s Sophie’s …
Diversifying the Profession through K-12 Outreach
The following article was written by 2018 MLA graduate Allison Ong for the ASLA Professional Practice Networks’ Blog.
In the first year of my MLA, I was assigned a review of Gina Ford, FASLA’s talk, “Into an Era of …
Reading the Elwha 2018:BLA Course Perspective
For the last four years, Associate Professor and Department Chair Ken Yocom has brought an interdisciplinary group of students out to the Olympic Peninsula for a summer course titled “Reading the Elwha.” During a week of hiking, observing the landscape …
Auburn Alleyway Activation: MLA Project
What happens when you turn an uninviting alleyway lined with dumpsters over to UW Landscape Architecture students? They produce a design that allows for sitting, eating, and gathering while adding green space and improved stormwater runoff.
The city of Auburn, …