OUR VISION

Our Vision for Landscape Architecture is to lead the allied design and planning fields towards helping to create a future that is sustainable and enhances quality of life.

We believe this requires the ability and ambition to re-design the city. By this we mean that cities or urbanizing environments, such as Seattle, with both wilderness and rapidly growing development, can be (re)designed to support the health and well-being of human beings and other species. Landscape Architecture can make an essential contribution by understanding and addressing the cumulative impacts of people on sites, of sites on landscapes, and of landscapes on people and natural systems.

We look to accomplish this through Urban Ecological Design, which integrates site, landscape, and people in a design practice that is both functional and artful. We have made a long-term commitment to lead an interdisciplinary approach to project-based learning in Urban Ecological Design with emphasis in our research and studio projects onEcological Infrastructure, Culturally-Based Place-Making, and Design for Ecological Literacy.