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  • Freedom By Design: The Danny Woo Housing Project Booklet

    September 8, 2026

      The UW AIAS Freedom By Design (FBD) team has released a new project booklet documenting the design and build process for the Danny Woo Community Garden Pig Roast Pavilion. The booklet showcases how student designers and builders worked alongside the Chinatown-International District community to rebuild a beloved gathering space, learning valuable lessons in collaborative…


  • UW Architecture faculty win national prize for climate-resilient housing studio

    September 1, 2026

    Construction documentation of the Moving House project, a 2026 Housing Education Prize winner from University of Washington, showing timber framing installation, on-site building progress, salvaged timber beams, and traditional joinery details across four construction phases.

    Rob Corser and Julie Kriegh received a 2026 ACSA Housing Design Education Prize for MOVING House, a collaborative design-build studio exploring culturally responsive, climate-resilient housing.


  • Seahaus wins in Townhouse Design Competition

    July 28, 2026

    Seahaus rendering of 10-unit townhouse commons

    Seven floor plans have been selected as winners in the Washington Starter Home Plan’s Townhouse Design Competition. The goal of the competition is to create compact and liveable townhouses for Washington households. Winning designs were chosen from 30 submittals from 19 individuals and firms across the state. Each winning plan now moves into the next…


  • In memoriam: remembering six built environment leaders

    June 26, 2026

    Architecture Hall

    The College of Built Environments remembers Leon Bridges Sr., Grant Hildebrand, Phillip Jacobson, John Mahlum, Anne Vernez Moudon and Betty Wagner and their lasting impact on CBE, the University of Washington and the built environment.


  • CITY ERASED connects Seattle’s past to its future

    May 21, 2026

    CITY ERASED: Mapping Seattle’s Highway Cut reconstructs the neighborhoods and communities displaced by the construction of I-5 through archival research, mapping and digital storytelling. The exhibition was recently featured in The Seattle Times’ Pacific NW Magazine.


  • Ken T. Oshima and Rob Hutchison explore new housing possibilities through Seattle DADU design

    May 2, 2026

    Building with dark wood paneling

    A Seattle DADU designed by UW Architecture professor Robert Hutchison for fellow professor Ken Tadashi Oshima demonstrates how compact housing can support evolving lifestyles through thoughtful design inspired by Japanese architecture.