JEFF HOU

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

jeff hou | curriculum vita | research | projects | publications | courses taught | awards

RESEARCH

Urban Community Gardens: Place Making for Healthy, Active and Sustainable Living.

Principal investigators: Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson and Laura Lawson. Landscape Architecture Foundation—Land and Community Planning Case Study Series . 2005-2006

Seattle's Chinatown-International District: Transnational Communities, Local Identities, and the Making of Place.

Principal investigators: Daniel Abramson, Gail Dubrow, Jeffrey Hou, Lynne Manzo. Funded by Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington. Summer 2002 -- Spring 2004

Public Spaces and the Public Sphere: Multi-disciplinary Inquiries into Urban Change in the Pacific Rim.

Collaborative research seminar funded by the Institute of Transnational Studies, University of Washington. Principal investigators: Yomi Braester (Comparative Literature), Daniel Abramson (Urban Design and Planning), Jeffrey Hou (Landscape Architecture). Fall 2002 – Spring 2003.

Community Design in the Pacific Rim

Ongoing collaborative research and practice through the Pacific Rim Community Design Network and conference series. For more information, click here . Publications include “(Re)constructing Communities: Design Participation in the Face of Change ” (2005), edited by Jeffrey Hou, Mark Francis and Nathan Brightbill.

Cross-cultural Design

Working group to examine pedagogies of cross-cultural design education: Collaborators: Shenglin Chang (University of Maryland), Kerio Hettori (Meijigakuindaigaku University), Margarita Hill (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), Isami Kinoshita (Chiba University), Laura Lawson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), David Myers (University of Maryland), and Sawako Ono (Chiba University). Papers to be published in a special issue of Landscape Journal .

Indigenous People and Natural Resources

Work in progress with Sasala Taipan , doctoral student in Anthropology, to study traditional cultural systems of resource use by the Rukai Tribe in Taiwan using GIS mapping.

Cultural Landscape

Work in progress on a study to examine the construct of "landscape" in the context of historic conservation and community building in Taiwan.

Sustainable Coastal Conservation and Development

Ongoing involvement through SAVE International , a project of Earth Island Institute , to study and promote conservation and alternative economic development in the coast area of Southwestern Taiwan against the proposed Binnan Industrial Complex.

Study completed in 1998 with Associate Professor G. Mathias Kondolf of University of California, Berkeley, to review the Environmental Impact Assessment Report of the proposed Binnan Industrial Complex. A working report is available through the Center for Environmental Design Research at University of California, Berkeley.

Water Resources Planning

Study completed in 2001 with Associate Professor G. Mathias Kondolf, entitled "Water Resources Planning in Taiwan and California: Implications for Reservoir Management and for Economic Development in Southern Taiwan", sponsored by the Pacific Rim Research Program, University of California. A report of the study is available through the Center for Environmental Design Research at University of California, Berkeley.