UW Farm and Landscape Architecture Autumn Roundup
November 5, 2024
Two MLA students--one current and one recent grad--were featured in the UW Farm's Weekly Newsletter this fall! Check out their newsletter articles below: Around The Farm | 10.23.24 Camas Taking Root at the UW Farm by Kove Janeski, UW Farm Seasonal Staff, UW MLA '24 The UW Farm manages three sites across the UW Seattle…
UW Faculty Spotlight: Celina Balderas Guzmán
October 31, 2024
Professor Celina Balderas Guzmán's research focuses on the interdependency of human climate adaptation actions and ecosystem adaptations. Assistant Professor Celina Balderas Guzmán was recently featured in the UW Office of Research New Faculty Spotlight. Celina was able to give insight into her research, her time at UW thus far, and what she is looking forward…
Landscape Furniture Studio: Building student connections with salvage wood
October 29, 2024
Landscape Furniture Studio Tours the UW Lumber Yard and UW Furniture Facilities LA501B Students tour the UW Lumber Yard in early Autumn Quarter 2024 In early October, the LA501B Landscape Furniture Studio, led by UW LA/Arch faculty Steve Withycombe and Marcus Crider, toured the UW Lumber Yard. UWF Carpenter Morgan Holz shows off the UW…
Welcome Julie Parrett as Interim Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture
October 7, 2024
The College of Built Environments (CBE) is pleased to announce Julie Parrett, Associate Teaching Professor, as the Interim Chair for the Department of Landscape Architecture, effective October 14, 2024.
UWLA Affiliate Amy Wagenfeld launches the Learning Network of the Nature and Health Alliance
October 3, 2024
Affiliate Landscape Architecture Faculty Amy Wagenfeld along with Co-Director Wesley Tate, MD, and Program Director, Amelia Dupuis, are thrilled to announce the launch of The Learning Network of the Nature and Health Alliance. Funded by the REI Cooperative Action Fund REI Cooperative Action Fund, The Learning Network of the Nature and Health Alliance is…
Congratulations to UW 2024 ASLA Award winner
September 5, 2024
Congratulations to Lily Daniels (UWLA '24) on receiving the 2024 ASLA Award of Excellence in Communications, for their project "Where the Street Ends." This project was advised by UWLA department chair Ken Yocom. Project Statement: "Seattle's abundant waterways and shorelines create unique spaces where human experience and nature thrive together. This project delves into the…
Design Build Update: Quint Family Sensory Garden
August 29, 2024
The Quint Family Sensory Garden was UW Landscape Architecture's most recent design-build project, led by professor Daniel Winterbottom. The Kline Galland Home provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation services. Over the course of two quarters, UWLA students worked to design and realize the sensory garden. The garden was opened in June 2024, and provides space to rest,…
2024 Urban Sites Studio: Project 2
August 15, 2024
Winter Quarter 2024 | Instructors: Catherine De Almeida, Vincent Javet Students explored depaving and site-based strategies for reimagining parking lots in Pioneer Square and Capitol Hill as public spaces. The projects consider the material dimensions of each site, exploring potentials for material reuse, the breaking up of impervious surfaces (asphalt) to incorporate pervious surfaces (depaving),…
2024 Urban Sites Studio: Project 1
August 15, 2024
Winter Quarter 2024 | Instructors: Catherine De Almeida, Vincent Javet Students selected a story from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and were asked to imagine their modeled surfaces as a narrative landscape that interprets some of the main concepts, elements, characteristics, essences, and spatial and character cues, and how this plays out in their landscape. We…
Green Futures Lab Students Win Climate Solutions Prize
August 5, 2024
Snapshot of the Green Future Lab's award-winning project: Designing the Climate Responsible City Did you know that UW Green Futures Lab Scan Design Interns won one of the two Climate Solutions prizes, as part of CBE’s Climate Solutions symposium this past spring?! There were over 40 entries and Constantine Chrisafis’ (MLA/MUP ’25) posters describing our Designing the…
Landscape Architecture 300 Students Present in First Summer Review
July 25, 2024
LARCH 300 Students pose for the camera with their presentation Landscape Architecture 300: Introduction to Landscape Architecture is a course designed to introduce and immerse new students to the field of landscape architecture. Taught by lecturer Shaunta Butler and assisted by reader/grader Piper Sallquist (MLA '26), this intensive summer course covers a breadth of topics…
Landscape Architecture Students Design and Build Microhome
July 25, 2024
Population Tiny Home Students Jessica Liao, Vasilisa Karp, Hanbeom Lee, and friend bringing their tiny house design to life. UW BLA students, Hanbeom Lee, Vasilisa Karp, and Jessica Liao, participated in the MICROHOME Tiny House Design Competition. During their research on the chosen topic of housing for individuals experiencing homelessness, they discovered the Low Income…
Wapato Pond Opening at UW Farm
July 15, 2024
Overview of the new wapato pond at the UW Farm designed and built by MLA student Kove Janeski.
Kline Galland Quint Family Sensory Garden Celebration
July 3, 2024
On June 6th, 2024, Kline Galland community members and staff gathered with our 2024 UWLA Design Build students and families to dedicate the Quint Family Sensory Garden.
2024 Student Showcase: WASLA Awards and Capstone presentations
July 2, 2024
As we look back on the 2023-24 school year, we reflect with pride on the amazing work our students have produced.
Alumni Spotlight: Yuqing Zhang (MLA '21)
June 13, 2024
This month we are highlighting alumni Yuqing Zhang! Yuqing graduated from the MLA program in 2021. With an interest in historical preservation and community engagement, she loves to combine holistic understandings of the past and present to project landscapes into the future. She grew up in the historic core of Suzhou, China. Frequent visits with…
Announcing our 2024 WASLA Award Winners
May 31, 2024
At long last, we would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to the WASLA Awards this year. We appreciate your participation during such a busy year and spring quarter!
UW Earthlab Announces 2024-25 Innovation Grants Projects: JC3 and Collaborators Chosen for Feasibility Report in South Park for Biodigester
May 22, 2024
EarthLab has announced that five community-centered teams have been selected for the 2024-25 Innovation Grants program. The UW // LA department's own Catherine De Almeida (Associate Professor) will be the Principal Investigator on one of the chosen teams, along with Graduate Student Assistant Sarah Chu (MLA '25). Each team will receive $80,000 to research and develop…
Spring End-of-Quarter Reviews
May 20, 2024
All are welcome to check out our end-of-quarter reviews beginning Wednesday, May 29th!
PAC Spring Lecture: Chelina Odbert
April 29, 2024
Join us on Wednesday, May 8th from 6:30-8p in Arch Hall 147! Chelina Odbert, the co-founder and CEO of Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI), will explore her path from design school to the inception of a global, mission-driven planning and design practice. She believes in the power of community-engaged design to advance racial, environmental, and economic…
