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Professor
Anne Vernez Moudon
Fritz Wagner

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


Assistant Professor
Ben Spencer
Thaisa Way
Ken Yocom

Lecturers
Luanne Smith
Nhon Truong

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THAISA WAY

Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
348F Gould Hall
206 685 2523
tway@u.washington.edu

Overview|

EDUCATION
Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Architecture Department, Ithaca, New York   2005, PhD.  Dissertation: Women as Force in Landscape Architecture, 1893 to 1942. Mary N. Woods, Chair

University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Architectural History Department, Charlottesville, Virginia 1991, Master of Architectural History. Thesis: Arts and Crafts Gardens in California. Richard Guy Wilson, Chair.

University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources, Berkeley, California                                       1985, Bachelor of Science, Major in conservation of natural resources.

TEACHING

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS & AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS
Book
Unbounded Practice: Women, Landscape Architecture and early Twentieth Century Design. The University of Virginia Press, forthcoming Fall 2008.

Journal Articles
 “Social Agendas of Early Women Landscape Architects,” Landscape Journal 25/2 (Fall 2006): 187-204.
 “Marjorie Sewell Cautley - Designing the Garden City Landscape,” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Volume 25.4 (December, 2005): 297-316.

Book Chapters
 “Annette Hoyt Flanders,”  “Alice Gardner Burnell Lockwood,” and  “Eleanor Louise Roche,” Pioneers II, Charles Birnbaum, ed., University of Virginia Press, forthcoming Fall 2008.
 “Designing Garden City Landscapes- The Work of Marjorie Sewell Cautley,” A Century of Women, University of Virginia Press, submitted and under review.

Reviews and Brochures
"A World of Her Own Making by Catherine Howett" Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, forthcoming.
“Modern Public Gardens: Robert Royston and the Suburban Park  by R. M. Rainey and J. C. Miller” Garden History. forthcoming.
 “The Struggle for Modernism by A. Alofsin” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Volume 26.3 (Summer 2006).
“The Garden Squares of Boston by Phebe Goodman” Landscape Architecture, Volume 95. 2 (February 2005).
 “Forest & Garden by Melanie Simo”  Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Volume 24.3 (Summer 2004).
“Theory in Landscape Architecture by Simon Swaffield” Landscape Journal, Vol. 22 Issue 2 (Fall 2003).
“Grounds for Pleasure by Denise Otis” Landscape Architecture, Volume 93, Number 7 (July 2003).
“Landscape as Process,” Newsletter, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Volume 5.1 (Winter/Spring 2002).
 “Representing the Australian Landscape: The Architecture of Glenn Murcutt,” Newsletter, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Volume 5:2. (2002).
The Pavilion Gardens, The Rotunda, University of Virginia brochures, Charlottesville, Virginia, (1993).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES 
Archives in the Landscape Studio, Panel Moderator , 62nd  Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Cincinnati, Ohio.,  April 25, 2008.
Teaching History, Theory, and Studio, Panel Moderator , 61st  Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, Pa.,  April 24, 2007.
Early Women Landscape Architects and Social Movements, Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Vancouver, Canada, June 15, 2006.
Surveying the Landscape: The Pedagogy of Landscape Architectural History, Panel Moderator and co- organizer with Dianne Harris. 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Savannah, Georgia, April 11, 2006
Social Agendas in the work of Early Women Landscape Architects, Speaker, 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vancouver, British Columbia April 27, 2005.
Women and the Creation of Public Landscapes, Chair, 57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Providence, Rhode Island, April 15, 2004.
Designing the Garden City Landscape: Marjorie Sewell Cautley, 2003 Buell Dissertation Colloquium, The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University.  Also given at the University of Colorado, Denver; Smithsonian Institution, American History Lecture Series, and Cornell University.
______ A Century of Women: Evaluating Gender in Landscape Architecture, University of California-Berkeley, November 8, 2002.
Coral Gables: A City in a Garden, New Visions in the History of Art and Archeology, Graduate History of Art Symposium, Cornell University, Spring 2002.
Women, Minorities, and Philanthropy, CASE Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, Spring, 1999.
The Garden Club of Virginia & Garden History, Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Southern Garden History Society, Williamsburg, Virginia, Spring 1994.
Women in Preservation, Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of Historic Ithaca, Ithaca, New York, Fall 1994.
The Gardens of Thomas Jefferson, presented for diverse groups includingHistoric Ithaca workshop, Elderhostel, Washington Arts Association, Agecroft Association, Master Gardeners of Virginia, Williamsburg garden symposium, Garden Club of Ithaca, University of Virginia and Cornell University.
Gardens & Landscapes of the University of Virginia: Restoration and Recreation, Annual Conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Charlottesville, Virginia, Fall 1993.

GUEST CRITIC (by invitation of faculty)

THESIS COMMITTEES
Thomas, Jenn, "Jane Silverstein Ries: Experiencing Education at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women." University of Colorado, Denver, forthcoming, Master of Landscape Architecture research thesis, May 2008. (awarded fellowship from Garden Club of America.)
Cody, Sarah, "A Cultural Landscape Report for Floyd Bennett Field," SUNY-ESF, Master of Landscape Architecture research thesis, August 2007
Albert, Daniel, "Selling the Sustainable Aesthetic," SUNY-ESF, Master of Landscape Architecture research thesis, May 2007 (invited to speak at professional conference "Green Build" by Center for Excellence)
Misner, Sarah E., "Learning through Play: Exploring quality play environments," SUNY-ESF, Master of Landscape Architecture research thesis, May 2007 (awarded Steven G. King Play Environments Scholarship by the Landscape Architecture Foundation)
Stephens, Eleanor, " Designing for Preschoolers: The Engagement of Natural Spaces for Play" SUNY-ESF, May 2007

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
M.L.A. & B.L.A. curriculum review committees, SUNY-ESF, 2006-2007
PhD program proposal and review committee, SUNY-ESF, 2005-2007
Archive committee member, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2005-present
Executive Committee member, Webmaster, Landscape History Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2004-present
Treasurer, Fine Arts Booster Association of Ithaca, 2002- 2007
Board of Directors, Preservation Awards Committee, Historic Ithaca, Ithaca, NY, 2000-2002, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Society of Architectural Historians, Executive Committee of the Landscape History Chapter
National Trust for Historic Preservation
American Society of Landscape Architects, Associate member