Newsletter
EVENTSCAPE [SPRING
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NEWS Olin Lecture: Attended by over 140 professionals, alumni and students, Laurie Olin's lecture brought together the landscape architecture community in Seattle. Green Futures Charrette Draws Extensive Community Participation. Over 300 professional and community members participated in the Green Futures Charrette on February 3 and 4, collaboratively sketching their 100-year visions for Seattle's future open spaces. Building upon the Olmsted Centennial, twenty-two teams composed of planners, landscape architects, planners, architects, developers, neighborhood activists, and students tackled every part of the city to envision integrated civic, park, transportation, drainage, and habitat spaces over the two days. Students in graduate and undergraduate landscape architecture studios taught by Assistant Professor Nancy Rottle and Lecturer Brice Maryman co-led the charrette teams, and then refined and digitized the charrette products. Their drawings will be exhibited at City Hall in May and at Odegaard Library in June, and will be posted to the project website, www.open2100.org. |
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 Photographed by Steve Hartson |
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National
Planning Award given to CAUP
Interdisciplinary Studios. Students from
an interdisciplinary landscape architecture and urban planning
studio have won one of only two National Student Awards given
by the American Planning Association for their project, "Pioneering
Palmer's Future: Strategies for Managing Growth." The
student team, Alison Maitland Scheetz, Dan Staley and Joshua
Curtis, presented recommendations that addressed growth management,
downtown revitalization, and landscape preservation for an
historic Alaskan town, drawing from work by students in the
Fall 2004 Alaska studio taught by professors Nancy Rottle
and Frank Westerlund and teaching assistant Eric Noll. |
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Study Abroad in Japan (Part II): Christine Harrington began her journey through Japan toward the end of summer in the tropical islands of Okinawa. For three weeks, she crisscrossed the country, dodging typhoons and exploring small villages seldom visited by foreigners before settling down in the Tokyo Bay area. In February, Christine traveled to the northernmost island of Hokkaido to witness the ice floes drifting down from Russia. The last three months of Christine’s study abroad culminated with the final presentation of her Banzu Tidal Flat Design, a trip to Sapporo with Professor Isami Kinoshita, an internship in the Tokyo Landscape Architectural Firm, Site Onsite, and an excursion to visit Isamu Noguchi’s Garden Museum and Tadao Ando’s Chichu Museum building. For more information and photos please visit her blog. |
 Terraced Rice Field in Winter |
| Undergraduate Research: BLA senior Michael McMaster has been selected to present his project at the Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Title “Integrating Regional Identity and Tourism Amenities,” the project will identify regionally specific or sacred elements, both urban and natural, in Bellingham and determine the implications of vernacular forms for the success of Bellingham’s new marina. | |
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Jeff Hou will host a Networking Event titled “Participatory Community Planning in the Pacific Rim” at the World Urban Forum III in Vancouver, Canada, June 19-23. The event presents an opportunity to expand the Pacific Rim Community Design Network that Jeff has helped organize since 1998. He recently presented a paper titled “Hybrid Landscapes: Toward an Inclusive Ecological Urbanism” at the 94th ACSA Annual Conference in Salt Lake City. He is currently teaching an experimental, collaborative seminar on Asian cities with Vikram Prakash of Architecture and Dan Abramson of Urban Design and Planning. Lynne Manzo's latest paper, "Finding Common Ground: The Importance of Place Attachment to Community Participation and Planning" will appear in the May issue of the Journal of Planning Literature. For this project, she collaborated with community psychologist, Doug Perkins from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Some of Lynne's work on public housing will appear in the journal, Housing Policy Debate. This was co-authored with Rachel Kleit from the UW Evans School of Public Affairs. Look out for a future update for the specific issue. Iain Robertson presented a talk at the Longwood Graduate Program's Annual Symposium in held in the conservatories of Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania. A PowerPoint presentation and notes of his talk, titled "The Power of Personality for People, Plants. Places, Projects and Public Gardens" will appear on his department web page shortly. In March he chaired the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board's Accreditation team reviewing University of California, Berkeley's MLA program. The Spring issue of the Arboretum Bulletin contains an article based on a talk he gave at the 2005 Japanese Garden Guide Training Program. Titled "Around the Garden in One Thousand and One Questions: A Designer’s Introduction to Seattle’s Japanese Garden" it suggests the kinds of questions and observations that a walk around the garden might evoke for a designer. He also participated as a member of the Japanese Garden Advisory Council on consultant selection and sketch design review for the proposed new Gatehouse at the Japanese Garden. David Streatfield will deliver the annual Russell/Chandler lecture on "Lockwood de Forest, pioneering landscape architect extraordinaire," at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden to celebrate the 75 anniversary of its foundation. He will also give a lecture on "Charles Greene: Iconic Arts and crafts Garden," as part of the Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series at the Gamble House in Pasadena. Professor Streatfield has been commissioned to write an introductory essay on the role of women in the 20th century history of American landscape architecture to accompany a collection of essays edited by Louise Mozingo and Linda Jewell of the University of California at Berkeley to be published by the University of Virginia Press. Professor Streatfield is serving as consultant historian for the restoration of the Sicilian and Valencia Courts of Scripps College, Claremont, California, the masterpiece of Edward Huntsman-Trout and one of the finest small campuses in the country. Fritz Wagner received a $299,982 Universities Rebuilding American Partnerships (URAP) - Community Design grant that will target the needs of the low- to moderate-income populations in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana to increase affordable housing, public facilities, and employment opportunities. Through the grant, UW will be collaborating with the UW Department of Urban Design and Planning, and its public service arm, the Northwest Center for Livable Communities, and Jefferson Parish in Louisiana.The project activities include an analysis of existing conditions to identify issues to be addressed and the development of alternative plan scenarios to be developed through faculty-student independent studies. Daniel Winterbottom received
the prestigious S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award
for the year 2006 for his exemplary leadership in community-based
instruction. The award will be made at the University Recognition
Ceremony to be held on Thursday, June 8, in Meany Hall Auditorium.
His studio in Guatemala this summer also received a grant fro the
Gowen International Support Endowment. |
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Bellingham Brownfield: Darby Watson AICP (BLA '95, MUP '01) and Sarah Durkee (BLA '05) are working together for LMN Architects to master plan a 150 acre Brownfield in downtown Bellingham. Working closely with the community, they are developing 4 alternatives that each includes open space, rights-of-way and developable land with dramatic views to Bellingham Bay and Lummi Island. This is one of the largest Brownfield redevelopments in the country and will be pursuing the new LEED-ND (Neighborhood Development) pilot program. |
 Green
Fingers Concept |
If you like Aurora, you'd love Dubai: Brenda Snyder (BLA 05) has been sending back pictures of the fast-growing city. She is currently working on a resort project, located along the Omani shore. The project is a large residential resort community highlighting the traditions of Omani culture, adopting traditional Omani architectural form. Drawing from existing natural environment and traditional design, the landscape is to be divided into three zones, 1) natural costal/dune, 2) formal Islamic gardens, with strong relationship to the architecture, 3) inland lush overgrown date palm plantation. These three zones will overlap and transition, creating interesting adaptations and borrowing of landscape form. “Dubai is a fascinating place. If you like Aurora, you'd love Dubal." |
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