All (243) Alumni & Partners (32)Architecture (76)Climate (32)Construction Management (29)Dean (18)Faculty (69)Honors & Awards (32)In the Media (81)Landscape Architecture (41)News (53)Real Estate (36)Research (50)Students (48)Urban Design & Planning (44) Research (50) Is homelessness a housing problem? Two Seattle experts make their case in new book here’s a big problem when it comes to fixing homelessness: The research-backed solution is not always the one the public agrees with. Gregg Colburn realized this shortly after moving to Seattle in 2017 to take a job as assistant professor … Read More Urbanization is driving evolution of plants globally, study finds Humans re-shape the environments where they live, with cities being among the most profoundly transformed environments on Earth. New research now shows that these urban environments are altering the way life evolves. A study led by evolutionary biologists at the … Read More The Making of the Mountlake Recreation Pavilion The Mountlake Terrace Recreation Pavilion is an iconic public recreational facility that provides entertainment and activities for people of all ages. Tyler Sprague, associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington, provides insight on how the structure came to … Read More An online world that doesn’t destroy the real one Inviting as visions of the metaverse can be—a 3D stroll through Barcelona, avatars kissing, selling your side-hustle NFTs for mad Bitcoin—the real-world price of virtuality is alarmingly high and climbing. Nothing “internet” happens without megatons of hardware, those hot racks … Read More The need for more equitable fare enforcement Though Transit Equity Day is just one day, the issue of equity on Seattle’s public transit is an ongoing and important conversation to Seattle and King County residents. Neighborhoods across the county have unequal access to transit lines; bus stops … Read More Entombed in the Landscape: Waste with Assistant Professor Catherine De Almeida Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Catherine De Almeida remembers picking up trash on the playground, seeing people throw trash out their car window, and noticing trash flying around while she played outside as a child. The presence of litter in … Read More The internet is killing the environment. These students came up with a brilliant design fix Last year, Google teamed up with an interdisciplinary group of students from the University of Washington, the University of Arizona, and the University of Pennsylvania to design more sustainable data centers. The yearlong exploration, supported with funding from Google and … Read More The Environmental Psychology of COVID-19 with Professor Lynne Manzo We are living through a new reality, adjusting to life during a global pandemic. We are all changing our routines, our travel plans, our holiday traditions. For those of us who have been able to keep our jobs through this … Read More Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative Wins $1M Grant The Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative and Co-PI’s Mark Jarzombek and Vikram Prakash are happy to announce its receipt of funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This $1,000,000.00, three year award will allow GAHTC to fund the production of … Read More Search Results Navigation Page 01 02 03 04 05 06
