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UW Today Reports on Award Winning Design Studio in Peru

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Congrats to the Ben Spencer and the team! An article in UW Today celebrates the work of the Winter 2011 Design Activism Studio and the Summer 2011 Peru Exploration Seminar.

Read the article by Jeff Hodsen and view the slideshow here.

Posted Tuesday 14 February 2012 at 11:53 am

UW Design Studio wins SEED International Design Award

Congratulations to Ben Spencer and the Design Activsim Studio for their recognition as SEED Competition Winners

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The results of an international design competition were announced today: The Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Competition Design Awards honor extraordinary design projects and demonstrate that an emerging field of contributing architecture has reached a critical mass. Six projects were selected out of forty-five submitted from fourteen countries.

Studio 503: Design Activism; Escuela Ecologica Saludable Initiative, Parque Primaria, Lima, Peru. and the corresponding Summer Exploration Seminar in Peru, both led by Professor Ben Spencer, are among the top three internationally recognized award winning design projects for their work in the informal settlement of Lomas de Zapallal outside of Lima, Peru.

Congratulations also to UW Professor of Landscape Architecture Daniel Winterbottom and his Winter 2011 Design Bulid Studio in Croatia, who received an honorable mention for The Healing Gardens, Rijeka, Croatia.


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Posted Friday 27 January 2012 at 3:48 pm

Open Space, Sacred Places

New grant for Green Futures Lab

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Green Futures Lab received a planning grant from the TKF Foundation to team up with the Pomegranate Center and Earthcorps on a project titled "Reflections: People on the Waterfront." They are one of the eleven cross-disciplinary teams awarded nationally to undertake an integrated research and design project. See here for more information.

Posted Tuesday 24 January 2012 at 10:58 pm
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Parks for People Competition

UW team among stage 1 winners

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The University of Washington team led by Professor Ken Yocom and Adjunct Professsor Manish Chalana is among the winners for the stage 1 of the competition sponsored by Van Allen Institute and National Parks Service. The team will work on the San Juan Island National Historical Park (Friday Harbor, WA) in the upcoming, interdisciplinary winter studio. Read more

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Posted Friday 23 December 2011 at 11:17 pm
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301 Studio Article in UW TODAY

From Construction Site to Park in a Day- Hypothetically

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When students in the Larc 301 Design Foundations Studio appeared for class Oct. 31, Associate Professors Iain Robertson and Julie Johnson surprised them with an unusual one-day assignment: Redesign the construction staging area north of College Inn

read the full article published in UW Today

Posted Sunday 13 November 2011 at 9:07 pm

Wild for the City

The new urban wildlands

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Laura Starr, ASLA, AIA, at Starr Whitehouse and Claire Beyer, LEED AP, Project Coordinator and Resource Specialist at Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, discussed some of the challenges and successes they have experienced while working with urban wilds at the 2011 ASLA conference held this month in San Diego. Read more here

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Posted Sunday 13 November 2011 at 8:30 pm

MLA Grad wins Street Works competion in Sydney, Australia

Kristi Park's 'Urban Waterfall' installation wins urban design competition

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The international competition entitled "Street Works" was created and managed by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and designed to enliven underutilized urban spaces throughout the City of Sydney in accordance with the Sydney: Vision in 2030 Plan

2011 UW MLA Graduate Kristi Park's winning entry was located in the Redfern neighborhood on Redfern between Gibbons and Regents,  a narrow pedestrian/utility corridor that lacked architectural interest and was described as a "harsh urban environment".  Five design schemes were chosen in total out of 67 entries from seven different countries.



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Posted Sunday 13 November 2011 at 7:36 pm

OUTinFRONT: Landscape Leading

UW PAC Landscape Architecture Professional Design Exhibition

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The first annual exhibition and fundraiser event launched on October 17th in Gould Court. Over a hundred design professionals, students and alums gathered to view the inspiring breadth of work on display.  The exhibit will stay in Gould Court through October 28th, 2011. 

Posted Wednesday 26 October 2011 at 09:27 am