[Biostudent] SPR 25: Landscape Architecture undergrad + grad courses open to all

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SPRING 2025 L ARCH COURSES
(all courses count towards the Urban Ecological Design Minor)
Also available on our Courses page: https://larch.be.uw.edu/students/courses/
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L ARCH 212: Environmental Design and Sustainability
Keith Harris
5 credits, Counts towards SSc/A&H requirements
MWF 1:00-2:20PM
SLN: 15900
Open to all students

How do landscape architects and other designers shape our cities, our lives, and our futures? Through fieldwork, hands-on activities, research, and discussion, this course explores innovative and interdisciplinary design thinking and practice that addresses critical human issues from the local to the global scale.

L ARCH 322: Sensory and Sustainable Planting Design for Cities
Hongfei Li
3 credits, Counts towards A&H & UED minor requirements
MW 11:30 – 12:50PM
SLN: 15092
Open to all students

As cities adapt to climate change, can urban environments be designed as living systems that foster resilience, ecological health, and human well-being? In this course,  we will explore planting design as an embodied, sensory-driven practice that connects people with the dynamic processes of urban ecosystems. Students will investigate how the human experience of plants intertwines with the structure and function of sustainable environments. Course materials will integrate design skills, climate resilience, and environmental psychology, emphasizing the role of plants in supporting biodiversity, mitigating urban stressors, and enhancing human flourishing in the city. Assignments for this course will involve a variety of means, including art-making, graphic novel development, design thinking, and observational skills.

L ARCH 363: Ecological Design and Planning (undergraduates only)
Celina Balderas Guźman
3 credits, BLA requirement, Counts towards NSc requirements
TTh 10:00 – 11:20AM
SLN: 15903
Open to all students

This lecture course offers an introduction into the complex field of ecological design and planning which integrates ecological research and knowledge into design and planning projects and applications. The educational experiences supports all students interested in applied approaches for improving the sustainable and resilience of urban and rural places with an emphasis on systems thinking, ecological rehabilitation and restoration, and creative problem-solving.

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L ARCH 423: Plant ID
Lauren Iversen
3 Credits, Counts towards BLA Plant ID
TTh 2:30 – 5:20PM
SLN: 15906

Plants are the living communities that sustain life. A familiarity with plants and their ecosystems is foundational to building resilient landscapes. Students will learn to identify PNW native plants, North American native, and introduced species through multiple ways of identifying including pattern recognition and dichotomous keys. Each week will include a plant identification walk nearby or on campus. The course will explore ethnobotanical relationships with plants, as well as biocultural, ecological and maintenance considerations. This course also offers students the opportunity to broaden the range of skills used in landscape architecture to include ecological design, horticulture, taxonomy, and the ways plants influence our culture and sense of place.

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L ARCH 454: History of Urban Landscapes
Elizabeth Umbanhowar
5 Credits, A&H/SSc+Writing, counts towards BLA major
MWF 10:00 – 11:20 AM
SLN: 15909

In the wake of a global pandemic, deepening ecological crises, and the continued escalation of socioeconomic divisions and political upheavals, interrogating the complex histories of urban landscapes offers critical perspectives that both can inform and empower us in  the face of challenging and unpredictable futures. In this course, we will deploy Seattle’s landscape as a foil for interrogating the environmental design histories of global cities. By comparing historic and contemporary urban narratives, we will engage in meaningful conversations about how histories are produced and disseminated, and why interpretation of the past matters more than ever today. Through the History of Urban Landscapes: The Nature of Cities we will examine the entangled narratives of colonization, capitalism, and climate change through a landscape architecture lens. And explore the role of identity, memory, migration, technology, design, preservation, social justice, and the more-than-human world in the novel ecologies that are cities. Participants will hone vital skills in critical design thinking and observation, research and analysis, representation and communication. We will also experiment with diverse methods and cultivate proficiencies in imagination, interpretation, and empathy. In so doing, we prepare ourselves to act as effective, thoughtful, creative, and agile agents and advocates in the landscapes we inhabit.

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L ARCH 498A: Drawing in Design Workshop
WEBSITE: https://larch.be.uw.edu/portfolio/drawing-in-design/
JIYOO JYE
ABSTRACTION AS MEDIUM AND METHOD
In a creative landscape shaped by the demands of immediacy and the pulse of consumerism, where does the designer locate their voice? How does one transform the deeply personal into something resonant, universal, and enduring? This workshop examines abstraction not merely as a visual technique but as a means of interrogating and refining the artist’s role in the dialogue between self and society.

This workshop challenges participants to step beyond the reactive rhythms of contemporary media and engage deeply with abstraction as a mode of thoughtful creation. In doing so, it offers not just tools for design but a way of thinking that situates the maker as both artist and communicator.
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LECTURE OPEN TO ALL
Gould 322
Friday, May 2
5:00 pm

WORKSHOP BY APPLICATION
L ARCH 498 A (1 cr.)
Saturday, May 3 – Sunday, May 4
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QUESTIONS?
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L ARCH 498B: LA BIM Seminar
Vincent Javet
3 credits, Counts towards MLA Media Selective
T 6:00 – 8:50PM
Open to all students

This seminar combines practice-based guest lectures, course readings, and applied tutorials to explore Building and Landscape information Modeling (BIM/LIM). Learn about the underpinnings of BIM/LIM, its role in contemporary practice, and how to leverage information modeling to shape the future of computational landscape architecture.

Software explored includes:

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  *   Autodesk Forma – AI-Powered Analysis and Schematic Tool: Available as a free download with student status – https://www.autodesk.com/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.autodesk.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jUn7gbTmKnf1bZJYDFoi1gZbd5GT-Io2tph5heZmw_oHuzlCtgLPwIzBkMZQl1H9hul6Oe9kU9LMj8m3UJGIBFuVFxvSG18I$>
  *   ENVIRONMENT – Landscape Information Modeling (LIM) Software [for Revit] Available as a free download with student status – https://arcintelligence.com/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/arcintelligence.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jUn7gbTmKnf1bZJYDFoi1gZbd5GT-Io2tph5heZmw_oHuzlCtgLPwIzBkMZQl1H9hul6Oe9kU9LMj8m3UJGIBFuVF1PjxLHu$>
  *   Land F/X – Landscape Information Model (LIM) Software [for Revit] Available as a free download with student status – https://www.landfx.com/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.landfx.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jUn7gbTmKnf1bZJYDFoi1gZbd5GT-Io2tph5heZmw_oHuzlCtgLPwIzBkMZQl1H9hul6Oe9kU9LMj8m3UJGIBFuVF-41ao1P$>
  *   RhinoLands – Standalone Landscape Information Modeling (LIM) Software Available as a free download with student status – https://www.rhinolands.com/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.rhinolands.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jUn7gbTmKnf1bZJYDFoi1gZbd5GT-Io2tph5heZmw_oHuzlCtgLPwIzBkMZQl1H9hul6Oe9kU9LMj8m3UJGIBFuVFzQNedpe$>
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L ARCH 498C: Community Engagement for Social Cohesion
Eric Higbee
3 Credits
TTh 1:30 – 2:50PM

In a time of social fragmentation, how do we work with place-based communities in design, planning, and policy? Together, we will explore this question in the context of the current and future practice of community engagement. We will dive into the world of social psychology to uncover the secret sauce for bridging our group differences and fostering shared identities. We will explore engagement’s potential to cultivate social cohesion and foster pluralism. And we will evaluate, learn, and practice a toolkit of methods for community engagement, including outreach strategies, steering groups, community event structures, meeting facilitation, and community construction. All Aboard!

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L ARCH 563: Ecological Design and Planning (graduates only)
Windy Bandekar
3 credits, Counts towards MLA BioPhys Ecology Selective
MW 11:30 – 12:50PM
Open to all graduate students

This advanced seminar examines the integration of ecological systems with contemporary landscape infrastructure through critical readings, case studies, and student research. Pairing foundational ecological concepts with innovative design applications, students will explore how ecological understanding shapes cutting-edge landscape architectural practice. Through intensive reading, writing, and analysis of significant projects, the seminar develops frameworks for designing landscapes that work with natural processes while addressing urgent environmental challenges.

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L ARCH 571 Research Methods for Design
Lynne C. Manzo
3 Credits
TTh 10:00 – 11:20AM
Open to all graduate students

This graduate seminar focuses on a range of qualitative approaches for conducting research to support design. Methods include photo-voice, mapping, world cafe, archival research, interviews, surveys and data visualization. The course will also cover different ways of knowing, how to develop feasible research questions, research/ design ethics & power relations. This class takes an applied approach and will give you hands-on experience to build your research skills and help students prepare for you Capstone Project.

Learning Goals:

  *   Better understand the connections between design and research
  *   Understand the ethical underpinnings of research including values & power relations
  *   Gain first-hand experience using research methods through exercises & fieldwork
  *   Learn what method to use in response to certain situations, site & questions
  *   Develop ideas for a possible Capstone Project
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Pronouns: she/her/hers, they/them/theirs
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Department of Landscape Architecture | UW College of Built Environments
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We acknowledge the people - past, present, and future - of the Dkhw'Duw'Absh (Duwamish), Muckleshoot (bǝqǝlšuɫucid), Suquamish (suq'ʷabšucid) and Tulalip (dxʷlilap) and other Coastal Salish tribes on whose traditional lands we study, work, and gather.
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