Newsletter
EVENTSCAPE [AUTUMN
2005] Winter
2005 LARCH
402 Neighborhood
Design Studio, the
Envisioning Centers of Delridge
(West Seattle) report is now posted, and can be viewed via
the class website: Shoji Kaneko wins ASLA 2005 Honor Award in Design. MLA student Shoji Kaneko, won an ASLA 2005 Honor Award in General Design for this thesis, "Pike Place Park/Structure - Toward A Hybrid Morphology of Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Infrastructure." Advised by Jeff Hou and Julie Johnson, Shoji's project created a park/structure that provides multiple accessibilities and diverse programs for the Pike Place/Aquarium Redevelopment Area in Central Waterfront of downtown Seattle. Click here to view Shoji's project on ASLA's awards webpage. Sarah Preisler selected for first annual Dangermond Fellowship. Graduate student Sarah Preisler was selected to be one of three Dangermongd Fellowship recipients for her proposal "Animated GIS Visualization of Ecological Flows across Seattle's Urban Terrestrial and Marine Systems". Preisler's proposed work will create a model that could be used to show Seattle policy makers the ecological impact of their planning decisions. Associate Professor Kristina Hill will act as Preisler's principal project advisor. The fellowship winners will each receive $10,000, a computer, ESRI software, access to technical training via ESRI's Virtual Campus, and travel funds to present their projects at the ESRI Annual User Conference and at the ASLA Annual Meeting. Click here for more information on Sarah's award. Landscape Architecture students Win Ross Bridge Student Design Competition. Jacob Millard, a third year Landscape student, was awarded first prize at the Birmingham, Alabama Ross Bridge design competition on February 16. The judges recognized Jacob's work as a "project that definitively incorporated all of the criteria and challenges outlined in the original design challenge." The end result was described by one judge as "avid design with beautiful stone walls and fences. Impressive." The team of Kelly Collins and Dottie Faris won one of two runner up awards. A Faculty-Advisor award was granted to Associate Landscape Professor Daniel Winterbottom. Ross Bridge was built in 1864 to transport supplies to confederate troops in Selma, Alabama. The bridge is thought to be the last Confederate financed project before the end of the war. For more information and pictures of the area, visit http://www.rossbridge.com/ Student work featured on HUD website. MLA students Clayton Beaudoin, Eric Higbee, Allison Maitland-Scheetz, and recent BLA graduate Amber R. Hadenfeldt are featured on a HUD website. They designed a Toppenish, WA park and playground and built a massive straw-bale dragon in a multi-disciplinary project through Jim Diers' "Community Driven Development" class in Spring 2004. Click here to see the photos. FACULTY NEWS Assistant Professor Nancy Rottle is leading "Open Space Seattle: 2100, Designing Seattle's Green Network for the Next Century" an all-city charrette involving students, local professionals, leaders and citizens (see http://depts.washington.edu/open2100/ ). The project, supported by grants from the Urban Land Institute and the American Society of Landscape Architects, is also co-sponsoring lectures by renowned scholars and practitioners who will address green infrastructure planning. This summer Professor Rottle's book chapter, "Message in the Medium: Watershed Awareness through Design of a Watershed Education Center" was published in Facilitating Watershed Awareness by Robert France, Ed., and her paper, "Universal in the Local: Practicing the Scholarship of Engagement appeared in the New Zealand journal Landscape Review . The National Park Service has published a cultural landscape analysis at Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve that Professor Rottle developed with Jones & Jones, as a Technical Supplement to the Reserve's Draft General Management Plan. In September she presented a paper at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture in Atlanta, GA, "Expressing Place–Perceiving Place: A Narrative Landscape Design Evaluation," which was selected for publication in the conference proceedings. She is currently researching the agricultural histories of three prairies at Ebey's Landing, developing a book manuscript on environmental learning centers in the Pacific Northwest, and co-authoring a paper with Associate Professor Julie Johnson that reflects on design charrettes with Seattle youth who created designs for an environmental learning park. This fall Nancy is serving as a juror for the 2005 Washington ASLA Design Awards. Landscape Architecture faculty members were selected by the Landscape Architecture Foundation to develop two of four new case studies as part of the Land and Community Design Case Study Series . Jeff Hou and Julie Johnson will develop an issue-based case study, titled “Urban Community Gardens: Place Making for Healthy, Active and Sustainable Living”. Julie Johnson and Nancy Rottle will develop an issue-based case study titled “Three Pacific Northwest Environmental Learning Centers.” Jeff Hou presented a paper titled “Speaking Images: a case study of photovoice application in community design” at the annual conference of Association for Community Design in New York. He is co-organizing an intensive session titled “Experiencing Culture, Experiencing Diversity” at the annual conference of Environmental Design Research Association in Vancouver in April. He will give a talk at Pomegranate Center's 3 rd Annual Gathering on May 19 th . Jeff's co-edited book (with Mark Francis and Nathan Brightbill), (Re)constructing Communities: Design Participation in the Face of Change, will be available this Spring through Center for Design Research at UC Davis. Jeff's Design Rescue Studio last winter has completed a set of pamphlets to assist the local recovery efforts in Aceh, Indonesia. The pamphlets, examining the role of landscape architecture in disaster mitigation and post-disaster recovery, can be downloaded from the course website . Lynne
Manzo has a new article out in the Journal of Environmental
Psychology entitled: "Beyond Home and Haven: Exploring
Multiple Dimensions of Place Meaning." Lynne also just wrapped
up her 2-year study of the Park Lake Homes public housing community
in White Center, located just south of Seattle. This community
- comprised of 569 units of public housing is undergoing redevelopment
through HUD's HOPE VI program. She will also be presenting
some of these results at the Urban Affairs Association conference
in Salt Lake City in April. See Lynne's homepage for
the results of the study. Iain Robertson servedas a Garden Exhibits Judge at the San Francisco Flower Show in March. He also gave two talks entitled “Are We There Yet? Designing gardens that move and arrive” and “Gardens That Takes Your Breath Away and Give it Back: designing to evoke particular emotional responses.” In March, He was the Team Leader on the Utah State University MLA Program Accreditation Visit. David
Streatfield gave three
lectures at a symposium on Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli organized
by The Garden Conservancy early in March, 2005 at the Stanford
University Art Museum, entitled "Hadrian's Villa: Brilliant
Inventiveness and Artistry”, “Hadrian's Villa: a
peaceful ruin", and "The Paradox of Hadrian's Villa
and the Arts and Crafts Movement: Green Gables and the California
Garden." He contributed an essay entitled "Isabelle
Green and the California Garden" to the catalog "Isabelle
Greene: Shaping Place in the Landscape" published by the
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
for their current exhibition of the same title. He also wrote
an essay in a new book published by The University of Virginia
Press, titled "California Culture and landscapes 1894-1942:
Entwining Myth and Romance with Preservation." He has an
essay in Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes (eds.) Design
with Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage . |
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