This Early Fall, seven of our CBE graduate students from UWLA and Urban Design and Planning joined the UW College of Environment group in Ilulissat, Greenland. Bringing students and researchers to Greenland gives them a real-time view from the forefront of the climate crisis. Check out this great post from the September 2023 Scan Design blog.
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Camas ‘Baskets’ Installed in Burke Meadow
Urban environments pose a series of challenges to native habitat projects, such as heat from nearby hardscapes, trash and pollution, and disturbance from people visiting the site. The Burke Meadow project is no exception. One of the greatest challenges to the success of the meadow’s camas is grazing by feral urban rabbits, who often eat the shoots down to the ground in early spring.
InterAction Nepal | Spring 2023 | Bhangal Community Hall
During the spring quarter of 2023, the UW Department of Landscape Architecture sponsored the InterAction Nepal program in collaboration with the Kathmandu University Department of Development Studies. UW and Nepali students from multiple disciplines worked with community members from Bhangal, Budhanilkantha, an informal urban settlement in the Kathmandu Valley destroyed during Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes.
UW//LA JEDI Newsletter SPR ’23
With the 2022-23 academic year coming to a close, this Spring newsletter highlights a bevy of department-wide Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) events that have taken place during this past quarter, as well as updates on activities taken on by the UW//LA JEDI Committee and the CBE Diversity Council. Opportunities to actively engage with JEDI initiatives include feedback on the Diversity Strategic Plan and applying to the Youths in the Built Environment lead coordinator position (due Monday, 6/5) or…
SPR 23 End of Quarter Review Schedule
Check out the work of our spring studios and courses, and good luck on that final push towards SUMMER!
ANNOUNCING: Vincent Javet as Assistant Teaching Professor
We are delighted to announce that Vincent Javet will join our department as an Assistant Teaching Professor beginning in summer 2023. Vincent has previous experience in both teaching and professional practice. Trained as a landscape architect and urban planner, Vincent is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Rutgers University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on 2D digital design, 3D digital design, visualization, construction (materials and assemblies), material tectonics, and design studios in green infrastructure…
CBE students featured on the Belltown Community Council Meeting
Our Winter quarter studio “Envisioning Belltown as a 15-minute Neighborhood” led by Affiliate Associate Professor Laure Heland was featured in the April issue of Belltown United. At the Belltown Community Council meeting, CBE students Alex Holbrook (Architecture), Katherine Magee (Landscape Architecture, Urban Design & Planning), Pedro Ramos (Architecture) and Eve Wang (Landscape Architecture) delivered a great presentation of the Studio framework and their design projects. The student team generated stimulating conversations and visions for revitalizing Belltown in the 21st century! To learn more about the students’ work, you can check out their final projects here. …
BLA Design-Build featured on the Arboretum Foundation Website
Our Woodland Creek Design Build is featured in this season’s Arboretum Foundation newsletter. The graduating class of BLAs did an amazing job renovating the former drainage pipe. To read more great details about the students’ work, check out this article from the Arboretum Foundation website.
UW//LA JEDI Newsletter WIN ’23
UWLA JEDI Committee Updates GGN Firm Tour 3/29 – RSVP BY FRI 3/17! The JEDI committee this quarter has been working in concert with the Professional Advisory Council (PAC) to offer a firm tour with GGN at the beginning of Spring quarter. This is a lead up event to this year’s Out in Front exhibit, which will showcase Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) values in professional practice. Check out the event blurb at the end of this newsletter along…
“It makes you human again”: ‘Sketching as Witness’ at the College of Built Environments
CBE Professor Daniel Winterbottom’s “Sketching as Witness” exhibition shows two and a half years of sketches of sancitoned and unsanctioned encampments around Seattle during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more on Winterbottom’s process and connection to humanity in this feature story in The Daily.