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Design as Protest | Seattle

DESIGN AS PROTEST: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION Friday, January 20, 2017 — 2:30 to 5pm, Gould Court East Join us on Friday, January for #DAPSeattle in Gould Hall for #DAPSeattle. Design as Protest is a nationwide action connecting citizens, planners and designers, with the intention of utilizing their skill set to stand up to injustice and discrimination in...

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The Thinking Hand of Bob Hull

Anatomy of a Sketch: The Thinking Hand of Bob Hull This exhibit uses sketches to reveal the design process of Miller Hull founding partner, Bob Hull, FAIA (1945-2014). The pen was his medium for having a design conversation. Bob drew to make sense of things and he drew for the sheer joy of making marks. Visitors...

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Practical Poetry

A BETTER BUILDING BLOCK WITH JIM NICHOLLS Ryan Salas, Tolla Dahlgren, Lauren Wabiszewski, Andre Kullmar, and Anna Grundmark all collaborated on the design and fabrication of a better building block that fits within a wall of standard module concrete blocks but adds the interactive feature of passively amplifying music played by your phone. PROCESS The...

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2015 – 2016 Thesis Awards

We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2015-2016 Master of Architecture thesis awards: Thesis Prize: John Reynders The Shape of Global Wealth: Slender Towers from New York to Seattle Committee: Jeffrey Ochsner (chair), Gundula Proksch Thesis Citation: Amanda Wolfang Replay Value: Toward an Architecture of Future Narratives Committee: Nicole Huber (chair), Jennifer Dee Thesis Citation:...

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Timber in the City

We are delighted to announce that our students from last winter’s ARCH 501 studio took home First and Third Place honors and an Honorable Mention at this year’s Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture “Timber in the City” competition! These represent three of the five awards given to the nearly 200 national entries from over...

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Staff Field Trip 2016

Each summer the Architecture staff takes one afternoon to venture out on a field trip to tour a building or place of architectural significance or relevance to our rapidly changing cityscape. We are often joined by the Architecture Chair, Brian McLaren, and we traditionally end the excursion with a relaxing lunch, giving us time to enjoy...

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Denny Hall Renovation

On May 12, the Department of Architecture’s Professionals Advisory Council sponsored a tour of the ongoing Denny Hall renovation project. This was an excellent opportunity for our students and faculty to preview Denny’s new 2016 main entry, interior skylight/atrium/stair, active learning classroom, and TA loft as they take shape within the original 1895 French Renaissance...

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A New Lighting Roadmap

An interdisciplinary team led by CBE M.L.A student Kelly Douglas with support from the Integrated Design Lab and the Office of the Campus Architect was awarded funding under a competitive solicitation of the Campus Sustainability Fund to create a roadmap for sustainable exterior landscape lighting at the UW. The project entitled “Campus Illumination” will create...

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Students win AIA COTE Award

We are delighted to share the news that work from two of our students, Keija Zhang and Xiaoxi Jiao, was selected by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE), in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) as one of the 2016 COTE Top Ten for Students Design Competition. Their project, “The Art...

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Fashion & Architecture

“Late in life, on an anxious urban street, Architecture meets Fashion. They fall in love…” Prof. Vikram Prakash’s winter 2016 graduate studio, in collaboration with the University of Washington School of Art, presents Near Body Architecture. This gallery exhibit features “wearable work” in diverse media including collage, painting, sculpture, sound, architectural constructions, and light sculpture. It...

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Thesis Reviews

This morning (Monday, March 7) in Architecture Hall, eight Master of Architecture students and two Master of Science in Design Computing students presented their independent thesis projects. Thesis reviews will continue this afternoon and tomorrow, to include a presentation from our Master of Science in History and Theory student. A group of critics from the...

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Staff field trip 2015

It is a much-loved Architecture staff tradition that every summer, we take one afternoon to venture out on a field trip to tour a local building or site of architectural significance. We are often joined by the department chair, and this year marked incoming chair Brian McLaren’s first time joining the fun. We generally wrap up...

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Carbon Leadership Forum summit coming up on Sept. 10

The Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) is an industry-academic collaborative research effort hosted by the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. The CLF works to reduce the carbon ‘embodied’ in building materials. ‘Embodied carbon’ is the sum of carbon emitted in each step of a material’s life. The reduction of embodied carbon is an essential part of reducing...

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Note from the Chair

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, As I step down from the position of Chair, I want to thank all of you for your amazing dedication and support toward making the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington such a fantastic place to study, teach and work to advance our programs and to push...

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CBE team victory in Low-Income Housing Challenge

An inter-disciplinary College of Built Environments graduate student team, including two M. Arch students from the Department of Architecture, won the 24th Annual Bank America Low-Income Housing Challenge on May 14th in San Francisco. The team was led by Al Levine of the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies. In the largest competition in...

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Jim Olson: Home Base

Update: August 2016 Last spring, the College of Built Environments displayed the work of Jim Olson in the Olson Gallery of Gould Pavilion. The exhibit opened with a conversation between Jim Olson and Alan Maskin, moderated by Ken Oshima. Below, a March 2015 blog post about the exhibit; you can view this and many other...

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Ron Rochon elevated to AIA College of Fellows

Ron Rochon, a partner at The Miller|Hull Partnership and a dear friend of the Department of Architecture, was one of six AIA Seattle members to be elevated to the organization’s prestigious College of Fellows this year, one of the greatest honors an AIA member can receive. Managing partner of Miller|Hull since 2009, Ron’s leadership has...

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CLT HOUSE

The UW architecture community is excited about a house currently being constructed in Madison, which uses a unique new wood system, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). UW Affiliate Associate Professor Susan Jones and Arch 503 Studio students participated in the research for this project. House location: 1820 – 41st Ave. E., just off Madison Here’s a...

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Arch 570 1:1

Perhaps you’ve heard the clamor of hammers in Gould of late, or have seen a construction zone where once was a quiet court. Don’t forget to check out the result of all that work — Arch 570 full-scale building details on display in Gould Court until February 13. The initial major assignment of the Design...

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Gould Hall Symposium

Yesterday evening’s symposium, Gould Hall: Past Present Future, was a huge success. As part of the UW Department of Architecture Centennial Celebration, the UW College of Built Environments community gathered in Gould Hall to learn more about the unique building which has served as its home base since the building’s opening in 1971. Audience members...

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Gould Pavilion Inaugural Exhibition

On Wednesday evening the UW College of Built Environments community gathered in Gould Hall to welcome its new Gould Pavilion, designed by The Miller Hull Partnership, with an inaugural exhibition, In-Between, by Seattle-based architecture firm Suyama Peterson Deguchi (SPD). The evening commenced with a “conversation” in Gould Court with SPD Founder and Principal George Suyama...

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Conversation with Glenn Murcutt

On Tuesday afternoon the UW community crowded into Alder Commons Auditorium to welcome Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt. The special noontime “conversation” proceeded as a question and answer session, with UW Professor of Architecture Vikram Prakāsh serving as interviewer. Audience members were also invited to pose questions to Murcutt. Students, staff, faculty, and practitioners listened...

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Congratulations, Graduates!

After a (midnight) Friday thesis deadline, we gathered Saturday at Cultivate in Elm Hall to celebrate our graduating Master of Architecture students with a slide show and awards. A list of this quarter’s theses is provided at the end of this post. Graduates, congratulations from all of us here at the UW Department of Architecture,...

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Our Centennial

It’s hard to believe that autumn quarter is nearing an end and we’re soon heading into winter! It’s been quite an exciting season around the UW Department of Architecture with much more still to come. This fall we celebrated with the grand kickoff of the Architecture Centennial. Opening activities began on October 22 with an alumni lecture by Brian Bell...

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Alumni in the City: UW Architecture Centennial Walking Tour

A few weeks ago on Sunday October 26th, we had a great turnout of alumni for ‘Alumni in the City’ – a walking tour led by UW Department of Architecture alumni designers offering a behind the scenes glimpse into the design of six notable projects. The projects and alumni architects included: Bullitt Center (Brian Court...

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Studioworks 2014: End of Year Show

Please join the Department of Architecture for Studioworks 2014: End of Year Show. Featuring the work of students throughout the entire year as well as undergraduate and graduate furniture pieces! Let’s celebrate the end of another great year and toast the future as we look to our 100th year next year! Refreshments and beer provided!...

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Chair Affair + Idaho Adventures

Written by Olga Amigud, M Arch 2014 Candidate Photos courtesy of Olga Amigud, Kimo Griggs, Anna Pajulo, Olof Jondelius, and Jason Tran For several years now, some of the lucky architecture students (those that have taken Furniture Studio taught at the BE labs) have been traveling with their pieces to an interstate design competition in Boise,...

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1:1 Precedent Models: Analysis Through Construction

Written by Alden MacKey and Andy Wolfang, M Arch Candidates (2015) As a case study, our team’s project was Peter Zumthor’s Steilneset Memorial honoring the victims of the Vardø witch trails, built in Norway in 2011. We were specifically interested in this project on account of its simple wood structure, which emphasized the fact that...

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