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04/15/2026

Stewardship in the context of the Mississippi River is a layered and complicated idea. Human, non-human, cultural, geologic, floodplain, wetland, backwater habitats, and riverine systems depend on relationships and reciprocity to thrive. In the Twin Cities, there is a groundswell of awareness and advocacy that nurtures the critical relationships between these human and environmental systems across policy, design, and community forums. How can future work in the public realm of the Mississippi River honor Indigenous legacy, build resilience and community power, and better understand future vulnerabilities?

Join us Wednesday, Apr 29, 2026 from 5:30 – 7:45 p.m. for Surges + Floods, a PAC lecture with Maura Rockcastle, co-founder and principal of TEN x TEN. One (1) LA/CES credit is available for attendance.

Maura Rockcastle is a landscape architect, co-founder, and principal of TEN x TEN. With a background in printmaking and sculpture, Maura balances a rigorous approach to leadership and design innovation with a conceptual sensibility rooted in process. Maura’s professional experience is focused on cultural, institutional, and complex public realm projects. Her work has received national awards for design excellence, preservation, and innovation. In 2015 she co-founded TEN x TEN to build a practice committed to horizontal co-authorship, radical transparency, and curiosity.

Register for the lecture now using the link in our bio.

Event details:
LA PAC Spring Lecture | Maura Rockcastle, TEN x TEN: Surges + Floods
🗓️ Date and time: Wednesday, Apr 29, 2026, 5:30 – 7:45 p.m.
📍 Location: Architecture Hall, room 147

04/13/2026

The Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands project has been featured in the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Landscape Performance Series.

Led by UW faculty and students, the project demonstrates how landscape architecture can support environmental restoration, urban agriculture and community-based learning.

The case study highlights the importance of evaluating projects beyond completion — understanding how they evolve and continue to serve the communities they were designed for.

Read more about the study here: https://buff.ly/nnGE4f3
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10/14/2025

Join us for our first MLA Admissions Event of the year – details below and on our linktree. All events include an overview of the MLA program and admissions process as well as an opportunity to speak with students. The Open House also includes faculty sessions and an alumni panel.

MLA OPEN HOUSE

Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 2:00-5:30 pm PDT 

Virtual event

  2:00 Program + Admissions Process Overview (with Q+A)

  3:30  Faculty Session

  4:15  Student Session

  4:45  Alumni Panel

VISIT UW - OCTOBER INFO SESSION

Friday, October 24, 2025 -  11:00-1:00 pm PDT

In-person event - Gould Hall Dept Office (third floor, room 348)

  11:00 am Program + Admissions Process Overview (with Q+A)

  12:30 pm  Meet with Students + Tour our Facilities

  1:00 pm  Break

  1:30 pm  Attend Design Studio Review / Meet with Faculty (optional)

10/09/2025

We are excited to share that several UW students and faculty are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to the field of Landscape Architecture at this year's ASLA Conference in New Orleans.

What we are celebrating:

Award of Excellence in Community Design
The Design Build Class of 2024 and Professor Daniel Winterbottom have received the 2025 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Community Design. Their project, Stimulating the Senses: A Calming Retreat in a Skilled Nursing Setting, transformed the outdoor environment at Kline Galland Skilled Nursing Facility. Over two quarters, students engaged with staff and residents to design and build the Quint Family Sensory Garden—a restorative space centered on comfort, accessibility, and dignity. Read more »

LAF University Olmsted Scholars
We are proud to recognize Sarah Chu (MLA ’25) and Hadley Masiel (BLA ’25) as UW’s 2025 Olmsted Scholars. Sarah has also been named a national finalist—one of the highest honors in landscape architecture education—highlighting her contributions to equity, community design, and leadership. Both students will take part in the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s events held alongside the conference. Meet the scholars »

WASLA Travel Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to the 2025 WASLA Travel Scholarship recipients Joey Cruse and Allison Chae (both BLA ‘26), and emerging professionals Kiera Eason (MLA '25) and Zian Zheng (MLA ‘21). With the generous support of WASLA, our students will attend this year’s ASLA Conference and share their experiences via our Instagram account ().

Are you going to be in New Orleans for the Conference? We'd love to connect with you there at one of the events below!

LABash Alumni Block Party
Saturday, October 11 | 4:30–5:30 p.m.
ASLA Expo Hall, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Free for conference registrants. Conference badge required. Expo-only passes available at registration.

Landscape Architecture Foundation 40th Annual Benefit
Friday, October 10 | 8:00–11:00 p.m.
Gallier Hall, 545 St. Charles Ave, New Orleans
Proceeds support LAF’s scholarships, research, and leadership programs.

07/03/2025

This spring, Gould Gallery hosted the Green Futures Lab Exhibit. This exhibit was both a retrospective of over two decades of hard work by the UW Green Futures Lab, as well as a prospective glimpse into the future of the program. We celebrated the Lab’s innovative work advancing sustainable urban spaces through research, design, and community collaboration, and honored the many people who have contributed over the past decades. Faculty, previous and current staff, students, and community members were all invited to explore and engage with the impactful work the GFL has produced, as well as participate in ideation for what the GFL can become in years to come.

Special thanks to our GFL Exhibit Team pictured in the second slide w/ Professor Emerita Nancy Rottle:
back row: Katherine Magee, Sloane Palmer, Matt Grosser
front row: Liz Forelle, Clelie Fielding, Constantine Chrisafis

Use the link in our bio to access our department website and view the full gallery of images from this special exhibition!

06/10/2025

Only two days left this school year to purchase the winner of our 2025 UWASLA T-Shirt Contest, designed by student MLA Sarah Maness! T-Shirts cost $22 and all funds will be used to support UWASLA events and activities next year! UWASLA rep Finn Larsen will be selling the T-Shirts in Gould 312 this Wednesday from 10am-12pm and this Friday at the UWLA End of Year Celebration! If you aren’t able to make these dates but would still like to purchase a shirt and support our hardworking student representatives, email [email protected] for more information

06/06/2025

After years of dedicated teaching and mentorship at the UW Department of Landscape Architecture, Bill Estes has accepted a new role as Director of Landscape Architecture at MIG, relocating to Los Angeles to help lead and grow the firm’s office.

Bill’s impact on our students and department cannot be overstated. From teaching the technically demanding LA 431 Landform Grading course to generously volunteering as a studio reviewer and national advocate for education and practice, Bill has brought invaluable experience, insight, and care to our program.

Students describe him as one of the most dedicated part-time faculty in the department—supportive, practical, and always ready to help, even after hours in studio. His presence will be deeply missed, but we are incredibly proud of all he continues to contribute to the field of landscape architecture.

Thank you, Bill—and congratulations on this exciting next chapter!

05/13/2025

Congratulations to Sarah Chu (MLA ’25) and Hadley Masiel (BLA ’25) on being named 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars!

They join a national community of 91 student leaders recognized by the Landscape Architecture Foundation for their leadership and commitment to advancing sustainable design.

Sarah has been selected as a national finalist—one of the highest honors in landscape architecture education—reflecting her outstanding contributions to equity, community engagement, and design excellence. She views landscape architecture as a tool for rehabilitation, environmental justice, and design activism, integrating critical mapping, research, and engagement to empower marginalized communities. She has collaborated with community-led initiatives in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley, exploring how the integration of regenerative solutions can improve public health and create more just and resilient futures. She plans to continue working on projects that center community agency, and address environmental and social inequities.

Hadley, UW’s undergraduate nominee, is also being recognized for her strong leadership and service. An active member of UWASLA and a PAC liaison, Hadley has helped coordinate events such as portfolio reviews and has played an important role in supporting student connection and engagement within the department.

We’re proud to celebrate both of their achievements and the positive impact they continue to make within the College of Built Environments and the broader field of landscape architecture.

Read the announcement:
https://buff.ly/QlbH5jm

04/03/2025

UW Landscape Architecture Professor Daniel Winterbottom recently shared his experiences of sketching unhoused populations and overlooked urban environments with Bill Russell of Illustrated Journalism.

Professor Winterbottom includes eye-opening stories discussing his interactions with our most vulnerable and often overlooked communities, as well as his process in documenting their spaces, and the current state of support for unhoused populations in Seattle and the United States.

Please continue to the link below to view the full collection of Professor Winterbottom’s masterful and important artwork, as well as the full, in-depth conversation between these two extraordinary artists and advocates.

https://buff.ly/U4bybUt

03/13/2025

If gardens are mirrors of culture, and our present culture is a hot mess, how might we go about making gardens that reject the materially consumptive and ecology destroying power of late-stage capitalism? TERREMOTO believes that through self-investigation into our relationships to Land, Labor, Materials and Ecology, we can forge a new path and paradigm and create landscapes that are in service of the whole.

Join us Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. for Doing Right by Land and Each Other; Gardens for the Next World, a PAC lecture with David Godshall, co-founder of TERREMOTO. One (1) LA/CES credit is available for attendance.

David Godshall is a landscape architect, horticultural theorist and the co-founder and design director of the TERREMOTO office in Los Angeles, which he founded with Alain Peauroi in 2012. Over the past twelve years, TERREMOTO has grown quickly and established itself as a driving force in the world of landscape architecture. David’s strategic approach to design is inherently rooted in philosophy and the idea that ecology, horticulture and landscape have transformative physical and spiritual impacts upon humans and non-humans.

Register for the lecture by April 7 using this link: https://buff.ly/02uxc9x

Event details:
LA PAC Spring Lecture | David Godshall, TERREMOTO: Doing Right by Land and Each Other; Gardens for the Next World
🗓️ Date and time: Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
📍 Location: Architecture Hall, room 147

02/21/2025

Update! Our upcoming screening of SITTING STILL will now be shown in Alder Auditorium. Audience members can enter the venue on March 5 via the entrance at 1310 NE 40th street.

If you haven't signed up, there's still time! Register by 2/25: https://buff.ly/4bc4jRT

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