Landscape Architecture

Faculty

Professor
Anne Vernez Moudon
Fritz Wagner

Associate Professor
Richard Horner
Jeff Hou
Julie Johnson
Lynne Manzo
Iain Robertson
Nancy Rottle
Daniel Winterbottom

Assistant Professor
Thaisa Way

Lecturers
Gareth Loveridge
Luanne Smith
Nhon Truong

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JEFF HOU

Associate Professor, MLA Coordinator, Landscape Architecture
348 Gould Hall
Box 355734
Seattle WA 98195-5734
jhou@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/jhou/
206.543.7225

Associate Professor Jeff Hou teaches in both the BLA and MLA programs. He specializes in community participation, cultural and ecological design, environmental planning, grassroots environmental actions, and issues of indigenous people and natural resources. Currently, his research focuses on frameworks and processes of cultural and ecological placemaking.

Jeff's professional work spans the fields of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning, and Public Art. In addition to a professional background in planning and design, he was also a principal of People's Sculpture - an environmental sculpture and public art firm that specialized in temporary site installation design for festivals and political campaigns. Jeff combines activism, research, and professional practice in his work. He worked with the indigenous community on Pongso-No-Ta’u in campaigns against the dilapidated housing condition and storage of nuclear waste on the island. As a founder of SAVE International - a project of Earth Island Institute, he and the local communities in the southwestern coast of Taiwan won a battle against a proposed heavy industrial complex.

He worked with the local community to develop an alternative economic development and ecological conservation plan that would protect the most important wintering habitat of the critically endangered black-faced spoonbill and the largest remaining lagoon in Taiwan. As a founder and campaign coordinator for Taiwan Environmental Action Network (TEAN), he assisted the local activists in a movement against a proposed dam in Meinung, Taiwan.

As a coordinator for the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, Jeff helped organize the first Conference on Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim in Berkeley in 1998. His writings on environmental and community activism have appeared in Journal of Architectural Education, EDRA proceedings, Earth Island Journal, and the book "Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim - Japan, Taiwan, and the United States."

Jeff received his PhD in Environmental Planning and Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley.

He has a Master of Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union.