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  • NOMAS UW Takes 3rd Place at 2026 NOMA National Design Student Competition

    November 9, 2026

    UW NOMAS placed third nationally in the 2026 NOMA Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition with “Cues of Care,” a living museum and resilience hub for Miami’s Virginia Key Beach.


  • Ken Tadashi Oshima Receives 2026 Good Design Award

    October 22, 2026

    University of Washington Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima, has received a 2026 Good Design Award 2026 Good Design Award for LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s, an exhibition in Tokyo for which he served as co-curator and co-designer. Through his curatorial work, Oshima helped frame a critical examination of modern domestic architecture, exploring…


  • Jeffrey Karl Ochsner Receives 2026 SHPO Career Achievement Award

    October 8, 2026

    The Washington State Historic Preservation Officer has honored Jeffrey Karl Ochsner with a Career Achievement Award for nearly four decades of teaching, scholarship and mentorship in architecture and historic preservation.


  • Remembering Rick Sundberg '66

    September 25, 2026

    Rick Sundberg

    Rick Sundberg. Courtesy of Paul Sundberg. The Department of Architecture remembers Rick Sundberg '66 and his lasting impact on our community. Graycie Viscon '26 penned this tribute, published recently in ARCADE. Read the full tribute in ARCADE.


  • 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.