New Academic Year Reception
Celebrate the start of the New Academic Year with Dean John Schaufelberger and the College of Built Environments leadership and faculty as we welcome new members of our CBE community and recognize your...
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Designing for Mars
In September, NASA announced the winning submission to the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge to be Ice House. Designed by UW Master of Architecture alumnus Masayuki Sono, ’96, a founding partner of Clouds...
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Partnering With Public Health
Students Recommend More Green Spaces for Delridge Community Each year the Department of Urban Design and Planning and the School of Public Health offer an interdisciplinary course (UrbDP 536) that...
View ArticlePresident Cauce to Focus More on Research at UW
President Cauce told the Puget Sound Business Journal earlier this year that she wants to continue the school’s emphasis on commercializing its research. She also said UW should broaden that focus to...
View ArticleUW Ranks Fifth Globally in Scientific Research
Continuing a recent string of noteworthy accolades, the University of Washington held its place at No. 5 in the world on the National Taiwan University Ranking of Scientific Papers, which was released...
View ArticleCERC Hosts VR Hackathon
The Seattle VR Hackathon was held this past weekend in the University of Washington’s Center for Education and Research in Construction. The event consisted of two simultaneous competitions, the AEC...
View ArticleUW Alum Wins First Place in NASA 3D Printed Habitat Competition
NASA – the US space agency that announced the discovery of flowing water on Mars this week – has chosen a winner in its contest to design proposals for 3D-printed housing on the Red Planet (+...
View ArticleUW College of Built Environments Chosen for National Architect Association’s...
The University of Washington College of Built Environments and School of Public Health have been selected as part of a national initiative seeking to translate research on how design impacts public...
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BE News – Winter 2016
Dean’s Message Dear CBE alumni and friends, This month we welcome our esteemed alumnus, James Cheng ’70 who will deliver the annual Dean’s Distinguished Lecture. Mr. Cheng’s designs have had a...
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BE News Spring 2016
Dean’s Message Dear CBE alumni and community members, As with every spring, the College is thriving with student projects, end of the year presentations, and celebrations. One of the things we are...
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Exploring Artistically Significant Landscapes
Fall in the Quad, University of Washington Seattle campus, October 2013. Photo by Katherine B. Turner Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Thaisa Way has been appointed chair of the Dumbarton...
View ArticleNew book ‘Cities that Think Like Planets’ Imagines Urban Regions Resilient to...
As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of...
View ArticleUniversity of Washington and City of Auburn launch first Livable City Year...
The University of Washington has begun a yearlong partnership with the City of Auburn, under the new Livable City Year program. UW students and professors will work with the City of Auburn to advance...
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Wendell H. Lovett, 1922 – 2016
Architecture Professor Wendell Harper Lovett (1922-2016), who taught at the University of Washington for almost half a century, died on September 18, 2016; he was 94. He is remembered by his many...
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Tomorrow’s innovations in our labs today
By both designing and doing, our students will build a better world. What role might robotics play in designing and building tomorrow’s structures? How did the tools used to construct buildings...
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Storefront Studio Recognized for Public Service
Each spring a dozen undergraduate students arrive in a new community with notepads and drawing pencils. They walk the streets, meet locals, and sketch prominent and underutilized spaces and are...
View ArticleTravel scholarships change perspectives
Rome Huddled over his sketchpad, Justin listened intently as renowned artist and UW Professor Emeritus Francis Ching opened students’ eyes to new ways of zeroing in on the most remarkable architectural...
View ArticleHealing gardens bring Nature in
Surrounded by the sights, scents and sounds of nature, two veterans speak softly with each other seated side by side on a mahogany bench. Moments earlier, each was surrounded by stark white walls in a...
View ArticleForging bold climate solutions
Fast-forward 100 years and picture cities and states with boundaries reshaped by the dwindling availability of a precious resource — water. After a century of climate change, ecosystems everywhere face...
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