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Prof. Simonen hosts meeting with Gov. Inslee

Architecture Chair and Professor Kate Simonen was asked by Governor Inslee to host a substantive discussion as he continues to develop policies and charge working groups to achieve better carbon futures. In Gould Hall on December 6, Governor Jay Inslee met with approximately twenty building professionals, think tank leaders, and researchers. Professor Simonen framed the...

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Donald Currie & Daniel Gladstone: Supporting diversity in architecture

By the time Donald Currie was 11, he knew he wanted to be an architect. Now, after a career spanning more than 50 years, Donald and his husband, Daniel, want to empower a diverse new generation of students to follow their own dreams of entering architecture. Graduating from the UW in 1963, Donald learned the...

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Taiwan’s “Mother of Libraries”

We are saddened to share the news that Wang Chiu-hwa, one of Taiwan’s most prominent female architects, passed away on June 14 at the age of 96. Wang came to the University of Washington from China in 1946 and graduated with her BA in 1947. At that time, the UW did not yet offer a...

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Remembering Daniel Streissguth

With great sadness, we share the news that UW Professor Emeritus Daniel M. Streissguth passed away on Saturday, November 20, at the age of 96. Prof. Streissguth made significant contributions not only to the University of Washington Architecture department but to our greater region as well. Starting as a student and rising to a professor and...

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2020 AIA Honor Awards

The AIA Seattle Honor Awards for Washington Architecture is a nationally-recognized program that provides an important opportunity for the design community to share and celebrate its achievements, both among practitioners and with the community-at-large. The 70th Annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture was held last week, and gave us all plenty to celebrate. Their first-ever...

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M.Arch ’13 Mariam Kamara in NYTimes

In its August 10 issue, the New York Times Style Magazine presented a special feature, 15 CREATIVE WOMEN FOR OUR TIME. “Whether in the realm of art or design, food or fashion, these talents have stayed true to themselves and, in doing so, have pushed the boundaries of their respective fields.” One of our...

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Spring 2020 Thesis Presentations

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Seattle Street Sink Prototype

Handwashing is a proven strategy for reducing transmission of the Coronavirus. However, not everyone has access to handwashing facilities, especially when cafes and restaurants are closed due to the pandemic. This is especially true for those experiencing homelessness. Seattle has responded by opening rest rooms in city parks and other locations and by contracting with...

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Distanced but Connected: Spring Studios 2020

Keeping our Community Connected During COVID-19 via Social Networking: New ways to stay connected, build community, and share inspiration during the Spring 2020 Quarter As COVID-19 continues to challenge the way we have been working, the Architecture department will utilize our social media accounts & website as a way to connect and showcase how our community...

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CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: ALTERNATE DESIGN STUDIO TEACHING

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 With the announcement of the switch to online learning platforms at the University of Washington beginning Monday, March 9 2020, the Department of Architecture, like all units in the university, has had to make immediate adjustments to our teaching. While the options for most classes have been relatively simple, essentially moving...

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Circular City & Living Systems Lab launches

Food, Water, & Energy: Finding the Nexus in Urban Food Systems University of Washington architecture professor Gundula Proksch launches the Circular City + Living Systems Lab By Gundula Proksch Updated June 18, 2020: Read about the CCLS in TAD! As urban populations grow globally, twenty-first-century cities must address complex challenges, including ensuring food, water, and...

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B.E Studio Reimagines Industrial Lands

Historically, Seattle has protected industrial lands from other forms of development seeking to preserve well paying blue collar jobs. The combination of the housing crisis and expanded light rail development through industrial areas has brought attention to the need to reconsider zoning practices. During the Autumn 2019 quarter, an interdisciplinary group of Built Environments students...

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Barry Onouye Endowed Studio: Structure and Dance

Barry Onouye Endowed Studio: Structure and Dance Last spring the Barry Onouye Endowed Studio explored the relationship between architecture, tensile structures, and dance. Assistant Professor Tyler Sprague and Endowed Chair Sigrid Adriaenssens from Princeton University co-taught the studio focusing on the use of nets to create a distinct space in the atrium of Gould Hall...

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ACSA Faculty Award Winners

Each year, the ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) gives Architectural Education Awards to recognize faculty for their excellence in architectural education and research. The Department of Architecture is pleased to announce that Professor Vikramditya Prakash has been awarded an ACSA Distinguished Professor Award, and the team of Barbara Rodriguez and Catherine De Wolf,...

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Student awards & recognition

The Department of Architecture is pleased to share the news that several of our students and studio faculty were recognized at the 2019 AIA Northwest and Pacific Region Student Design Awards. Citation, Honor, and Merit awards were given to the following: Citation Award Mike Laurencelle for Design for Reassembly: A Flexible Response to the...

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Mariam Kamara ’13: Prince Claus Laureate

The Department of Architecture is honored to announce that M. Arch 2013 alumna Mariam Kamara has been selected as a laureate by the Awards Committee and the Board of the Prince Claus Fund. The Prince Claus Fund was established in 1996, named in honor of Prince Claus of the Netherlands. It receives an annual subsidy from...

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Hip Hop Architecture Camp

The Hip Hop Architecture Camp® uses hip hop culture as a catalyst to introduce underrepresented youth to architecture, urban planning and design. Last week, the University of Washington was delighted to host to the camp here in Gould Hall for the very first time. M. Arch student Kenneth Nti served as a camp volunteer, and...

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Understanding embodied carbon

Associate Prof. Kate Simonen recently appeared on an episode of the design and architecture podcast “99% Invisible”, hosted by radio producer Roman Mars. On the episode, Simonen discussed embodied carbon as well as sustainable materials and manufacturing. The Daily UW picked up the story, and Kate shared some helpful information and links for those wishing to...

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Architecture & Activism: Prof. Sharon Sutton

“Sharon Sutton is a trailblazer – the first African American woman to be promoted to full professor of architecture, the second to be elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and the first to be appointed president of the National Architectural Accrediting...

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Design/Build Studio 2019

The 2019 Neighborhood Design/Build project “The Toolbox” was designed and constructed for a program at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School that teaches students how to grow plants, understand global food systems, and care for the native ecosystem. The high school students in the program pass their skills and knowledge back to the local community through...

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A Defense of Brutalism

Contributed by Alex Anderson When my longtime editor at Kinfolk moved to Harvard Design News and invited me to contribute there, I was happy to do it. I was even happier when one of my first tasks was to write about Brutalist architecture. Having spent more than 20 years working and teaching in Gould Hall,...

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atelierjones awarded Wood Innovation grants

The Department of Architecture is excited to congratulate atelierjones for being awarded two USDA/USFS grants as part of two collaborative teams relating to Mass Timber. These grants are the result of the firm’s multi-year design, research and teaching on the topic. The first grant is to assist a multi-disciplinary team with conducting fire testing in...

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2019 Barry Onouye Endowed Studio

As we approach the final weeks of the Spring quarter, the work of our 2019 Barry Onouye Endowed Studio is coming into its final stage. As with previous Onouye studios, our work highlights the intersection of architecture and structural design. With a central theme of PERFORMANCE, this year’s studio (offered with Endowed Chair Sigrid...

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Chair Affair victories

The Interior Designers of Idaho (IDI) have been hosting a furniture competition in Boise for 27 years. The Furniture Studio in the UW Architecture department has a long history of participating and bringing home awards from this event. This year we showcased seven new pieces from the 2018 Spring and 2019 Winter undergraduate classes, as...

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Alumni Awards 2019

Nearly a month ago we hosted our second biennial Alumni Awards, celebrating the accomplishments of our Graduates of the Last Decade and our Distinguished Alumnus. Here’s a look back at the event!

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Husky 100

Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the UW. The Husky 100 actively connect what happens inside and outside of the classroom and apply what they learn to make a difference...

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Building a Better Block

In a graduate materials and construction course taught by Senior Lecturer Jim Nicholls, students are challenged to rethink the relationship between the study of tectonics and the object itself. In a recent exercise, students have been exploring the potential of the concrete masonry unit (CMU). What are the potential applications of a cast object within...

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Architecture for Outer Space

UW Alumni Designs Lab for Space Research The University of Washington Department of Architecture has a long list of notable alumni working on exciting projects that push the limits of the built environment. UW alumni Masayuki Sono, founding partner of Clouds Architecture Office in New York City, continues this tradition by designing architecture for outer...

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Open faculty position

Open Position: Assistant Professor of Digital Technologies and Computational Design The Department of Architecture at the University of Washington invites nominations and applications for a full-time, tenure track position as an Assistant Professor of Digital Technologies and Computational Design, with an anticipated start date of Fall 2019. Tenure track faculty have an annual service period of...

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Bench-Mark

Collaborative Student-Built Bench Project Contributed by Jim Nicholls My dream bench’s handles are like mood rings and the rest of the bench is filled with encouraging words that would make anyone smile. -Eva Gugsa, Grade 11 In the spring of 2018 Yesler Community Center, Frye At Museum, Olson Kundig Architects and UW Department of Architecture...

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Queens of Technology

Getting to Know The MS Design Computing Cohort The Department of Architecture’s Master of Science in Design Computing is an innovative degree focused on emerging technologies and programing related to simulation, analysis, fabrication and new approaches in design thinking. This degree and other degrees like it are critical to the progress of the field of...

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Alumni Awards 2019

“The idea to hold an Alumni Awards event emerged in the aftermath of the highly successful centennial celebrations of the University of Washington Department of Architecture, held during the 2014-15 academic year. In reflecting on the storied past of this program, we became increasingly aware of the substantial body of accomplishments of our graduates –...

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Building Reuse with Kathryn Rogers Merlino

In a recent video interview with UW News, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Center for Preservation and Adaptive Reuse, Kathryn Rogers Merlino describes a critical opportunity for architects in adaptive reuse design projects. Earlier this year, Merlino’s most recent book was released, “Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design”. The...

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Shared Structure: A Bench & Interactive Canopy

An Installation at the 2018 Seattle Design Festival The 2018 Seattle Design Festival Block Party (September 8-9, 2018 in Occidental Park) provided a wonderful opportunity to showcase design in the Pacific Northwest – including the design talents of our MArch students. In the Spring 2018, our structures course for first-year Masters of Architecture students developed...

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Kelly Daviduke SAH Research Fellowship

Last year, MS History and Theory candidate Kelly Daviduke was granted a Charles E. Peterson Fellowship for summer research in support of her thesis. Kelly’s research started as an interest in Olof Hanson, believed to be America’s first deaf architect, who worked in the late nineteenth century. As her exploration of Hanson’s life grew, Kelly...

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Scan|Design Copenhagen 2018

Every year, twelve graduate students apply to participate in the Scan|Design studio. The studio begins with a two week trip to Copenhagen, Denmark to study the city’s famous urban design strategies and iconic architectural style. The studio, lead by Associate Professor of Architecture, Peter Cohan, is also co-taught by a Danish architect in the field....

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Steel Competition Success

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) have selected the recipients of the 2018 Steel Design Student Competition. The competition recognizes sixteen exceptional projects, in two categories, that explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. We are pleased...

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Summer Design/Build Studio 2018

Food and the ability to prepare it are fundamental components of life. Places of food preparation–whether a home kitchen or a fire pit–serve not only their most explicit functions but also act as cultural gathering spaces for families and communities. Food preparation poses particularly unique challenges in Seattle’s homeless communities for individuals, families and larger...

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Staff field trip 2018

Each summer, the Department of Architecture staff, Fab Lab staff, and Department Chair take a field trip to a local destination with a connection to the world of architecture and design. On a sunny day in August the group visited the Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) on Seattle’s Lake Union. Our tour was led by...

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Brian Johnson Advocates for BIM as a Foundational Architectural Design Tool

Click to Play Video In a recent episode of By Design, a short film and interview series produced by GRAPHISOFT, Associate Professor Emeritus of Architecture Brian Johnson describes the importance of integrative design technologies and processes, like BIM, in architecture education. As described by GRAPHISOFT, “In Prof. Johnson’s view, the rise of 3D and virtual solutions are...

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Sculpture on a Grand Scale

John V. “Jack” Christiansen (1927-2017) was a prolific, American designer of thin shell concrete structures. A recipient of the 2016 Eduardo Torroja Medal from the IASS, Christiansen built largely within the United States in the latter half of the 20th century – making him distinct among the global pantheon of concrete shell designers. Through the...

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Build Positive: Carbon Smart Building Summit

On June 20, the Carbon Leadership Forum brought together over 70 professionals from across the building industry, sustainability-focused nonprofits, and government agencies in New York City for a Build Positive: Carbon Smart Building Summit. Hosted by Skanska USA at the Empire State Building, the three-hour educational session presented participants with a roadmap to transform buildings...

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Tables Take the Lead at Chair Affair

Four Department of Architecture students were recently recognized by The Chair Affair, an annual furniture design competition hosted by the Interior Designers of Idaho. All of the projects were designed and built in the Furniture Studio under the tutelage of Kimo Griggs.

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UW’s first Seattle Historic Landmark

Built 100 years ago by the Navy at the tail-end of WWI to house seaplanes, then acquired by the UW to be used as Washington Rowing’s boathouse, the ASUW Shellhouse served the UW until 1975, when it was threatened with demolition. It was ultimately saved, becoming the first building on campus to be placed on the National...

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Husky Green Award

UW Architecture alumnus Devin Kleiner (M. Arch 2004) has been recognized by the University of Washington for his excellence in teaching sustainable design in receiving the Husky Green Award this year. CBE Dean John Schaufelberger was also recognized with the Husky Green Legacy Award. Devin is a Project Architect at the Seattle offices of Perkins + Will, where he...

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Susan Jones Advances Tall Timber

Over the course of her professional and academic career, Affiliate Associate Professor of Architecture Susan Jones has led the field in the adaptation of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) as a stunning and sustainable building material. In her recent publication, “Mass Timber: Design and Research,” Susan discusses the potential carbon reduction in replacing concrete structures with...

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Building Blocks

Building Blocks: Storefront Studio on Mainstreet charts the grassroots evolution of a community outreach studio offered by the University of Washington College Built Environments. Since 2003, Director Jim Nicholls has been leading groups of architecture, landscape, and planning students to partner with local small towns to study their main streets. The exhibit and book documents...

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Democratized Data, Classic Research

In the Journal of Lighting, Research and Technology’s recent article, “Lighting Research and Technology: Past, Present and Future”, Associate Professor of Architecture, Mehlika Inanici’s paper, Evaluation of High Dynamic Range Photography as a Luminance Data Acquisition System, received the praise of being named one of 25 Classic Papers published by the journal. The journal has...

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1:1 Study

The 1:1 tectonic precedent study in Jim Nicholls’ Arch 570 Design Development is something legendary. The project tasked students with tectonically analyzing a joint detail from a grand built project by building a 1:1 scale model of the assembly. Former students’ eyes light up nostalgically if you ask them about the experience: [it was] “awe-inspiring...

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Alumna Mariam Kamara to Mentor under Sir David Adjaye

UW alumna Mariam Kamara (M.ARCH 2013) has been awarded the position of 2018-19 Rolex Arts Initiative Protégée! Selected by world renowned architect Sir David Adjaye, the two will work together as mentor and protégée for two years. This year, the award paired young talent with leaders in the fields of architecture, dance, literature, and music. ...

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Timber Shell Studio

The Barry Onouye Endowed Studio at the University of Washington is intended to explore the boundary between architecture and structural engineering – with a design project that forces a conversation between the two mutually-dependent disciplines. In Spring 2017 we were honored to be joined by John Ochsendorf of MIT as the Barry Onouye Endowed Chair. Together...

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AIA National Honor Award: Gohar Khatoon Girls’ School

Building photos image copyright: © Nic Lehoux Professor Dave Miller shared the exciting news that the Gohar Khatoon Girls’ School in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan was awarded an AIA 2018 National Honor Award. The school was designed by Bob Hull/Miller Hull, in cooperation with Assistant Professor Elizabeth Golden and Department of Architecture graduate students. The 2018 Architecture program celebrates the...

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Chiaroscuro Studio – The City Lantern

The City Lantern Chiaroscuro City Studio is an exploration into the light and the dark elements that define architectural interventions. By beginning with the study of light through a lamp fixture, the studio is able to realize a finished product and the way it relays light on its subject. In this series of studies,...

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Low Carbon Partnerships

UW IDL in China: Building International Partnerships to Design and Construct Low Carbon Cities Associate Professor Christopher Meek and Assistant Professor Heather Burpee from the UW Integrated Design Lab (IDL) recently traveled to China as part of a University-wide effort to work closer with Chinese counterparts in building a low-carbon urban future. Meek traveled...

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Architecture in Urban Context Studio- Hands on Research

Contributed by M. Arch candidate Sami Prouty As part of the research component for the Arch 500 Studio, Architecture in an Urban Context, students spent an afternoon at the Chihuly Boathouse Studio getting a first hand look at the beautiful practice of glass blowing as well as the storage, display and production areas that come...

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AIA Northwest & Pacific Region Design Awards

The 2017 AIA Northwest & Pacific Region Student Design Awards were announced on Thursday, October 26. The Department of Architecture is pleased to share the news that our students took home four out of the seven awards given! Citation: Student: Vy Nguyen Project: Center for Wood Innovation Faculty: Susan Jones Award of Merit: Student: Travis Huan Project:...

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BE Studio – TOD at Kent/Des Moines

During this Autumn quarter, Associate Prof. Rick Mohler is teaching an interdisciplinary BE studio examining Sustainable Planning, Design, and Development strategies for TOD (Transit Oriented Development). Teaching with Rick are Al Levine (Real Estate) and David Blum (Urban Design & Planning). They are looking at the future Kent/Des Moines light rail station as a catalyst...

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The Design-Led City: Lessons from Auckland

The Affiliate Fellows Program at the University of Washington Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies brings together Seattle area thought leaders in the built environment, UW College of Built Environment faculty and students in the Runstad Real Estate program to focus on a research project under the broad rubric of sustainability. The 2015-16 fellows consist...

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Housing Competition victory

The award recipients of the 2017 HERE+NOW: A House for the 21st Century Residential Student Design Competition were recently selected by the AIA, Custom Residential Architects Network (AIA CRAN) and ACSA. The competition recognizes seven exceptional studio projects that seamlessly integrate innovative, regenerative strategies within their broader design concepts. The program challenged students to submit...

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FLW at 150

In celebration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is highlighting one of the most prolific and renowned 20th century architects’ work. This summer’s blockbuster exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive ” highlights this designer as a radical intellectual who embraced new technologies and materials....

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Staff field trip 2017

Each summer the Architecture staff takes one afternoon to venture out of the office 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...

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A City to Love

Seattle is comprised of 14,000 acres of rights-of-way, over 25% of the urban environment. How can we enhance the ecological, cultural and social function of these shared public spaces while increasing their capacity as our city rapidly expands? A group of real estate thought leaders, faculty from the UW College of Built Environments (including Associate...

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CHSA Conference

The Construction History Society of America (CHSA) hosts a Biennial Meeting on even years. CHSA’s 5th Biennial Meeting, held in Austin, Texas in May 2016, follows successful events in Minneapolis (2014), Boston (2012), Philadelphia (2010) and Atlanta (2008). The biennial meetings draw approximately two hundred attendees who are passionate about construction history, and historic architecture...

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Restructuring for the Future City

The McKinley Futures Studio began in Spring 2014, and is now offered annually. The studio is made possible by the Jeannette and David McKinley Endowment for the Design of Future Architectural Environments. Each year a new team of faculty create projects that will generate research-based, speculative design scenarios that will serve as a framework for closer examination of the...

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An Innovation Hub in Central District

Contributed by Karen Chan During Winter Quarter 2017, visiting professor Donald King led a senior year undergraduate design studio of ten students (including an exchange student from Australia) for a mixed-use Innovation Hub in Central District, located on 23rd Avenue and Yesler Way. The project aspired to restore the neighborhood’s African American heritage affected by...

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AIA Northwest Student Design Awards

The AIA Northwest chapter has just announced the winners of its 2016 Student Design Awards, and we are thrilled to share the news that our students took home both an honor award and a merit award! Congratulations to Katelyn Bristow, Brad Ecklund and Aaron Loomans for their “Canopy in the City” project and Kejia Zhang...

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ACSA Architectural Education Award

Congratulations to Assistant Prof. Elizabeth Golden and M. Arch ’07 alumnus Ray Villanueva! They were awarded a 2016-2017 ACSA Architectural Education Award for their Philippines Bamboo Workshop Design-Build project: Food Trip Market Stall. Details and more images of the project may be found here. M. Arch candidate Buddy Burkhalter was one of the UW students who took part...

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SIVA Visit

Department of Architecture faculty members Brian Johnson and Kimo Griggs traveled to Shanghai, China in September, where they taught a two week Digital Practice Workshop and presented at a Design Education Summit hosted by the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA) with a panel of educators from around the world. The workshop was the brainchild...

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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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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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