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 …
Category: Study Abroad
2014 Croatia
2014 DESIGN/BUILD IN CROATIA
September 14th, 2013 – November 24th, 2013
Application Deadline: April 13 2014
Application located here
Informational Sessions
Tuesday February 18th + Friday March 7th
12 pm in Gould Hall 142
2013 Croatia
2013 STUDY ABROAD IN CROATIA
August 24th, 2013 – September 24th, 2013
Early Fall Exploration Seminar Program
Program Description
Service: The Summer Croatia Design/Build 2013 Program is a service learning opportunity which brings students to the Psihijatrijska Bolnica Rab on …
2013 New Orleans
2013 SUMMER DESIGN/BUILD NEW ORLEANS, LA
June 17th, 2013 – July 26th, 2013
4-6 credits LARCH 498C
Program Description
This course is open to students at all levels and from all disciplines. Led by Professor Daniel Winterbottom, we will …
2012 Croatia
Program Description
The Fall Croatia Design/Build 2012 Program, a service learning opportunity, brings students to the medieval town of Bale city of butterflies on the Istria peninsula on the north Adriatic coast.
Students will collaborate with our partners, Municipality of …
Design Activism Studio: Winter 2011
In the winter quarter of 2011, the University of Washington’s Department of Landscape Architecture taught a graduate design studio based in the urban slum, Lomas de Zapallal (LdZ), Lima, Peru. Geared towards expanding the capacity of the design professions to …
2010 Croatia: Creating Places of Nurture for Disabled Children
COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL BUILDING: Creating Places of Nurture for Disabled Children in Croatia
Project Statement: The youth of Croatia grapple with guilt, confusion and hopelessness in the debilitating aftermath of a corrosive war. To facilitate healing, a collaborative, community-based process …
2009 Bosnia
Design-Build Study Abroad
Summer 2009
Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom…
BE Lab 2009: Taoping, China
The 2009 BE Lab (Built Environment Laboratory) is an interdepartmental sequence of courses offered by the College of Built Environments, at the University of Washington, Seattle, on the topic of earthquake recovery in Sichuan, China.
In this inaugural BE Lab, …
2009 Guatemala Phase 3
The Winter Design/Build 2008 Program offers students a unique service learning opportunity to study in one of the world’s most interesting countries, Guatemala. Rich in Mayan history and culture, Guatemala is an ecologically important with great swaths of forested land …