Vikram Prakāsh’s interdisciplinary Urban Sustainability studio is asking questions, and lots of them. We are tasked with designing interventions for Tollefson Plaza, a concrete no-man’s land that awkwardly straddles the UW Tacoma campus and downtown Tacoma. Students are leaving their...

Arch 502: CLT: material culture | A design investigation into the material culture of emergence of a new building technology: the cross-laminated timber panel This studio is about dichotomies united by a slab of wood.  The slab of wood is Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) , basically panels of...

Dorte Mandrup Studio: Public Dialogue Danish Architect, Dorte Mandrup,  returns to Architecture Hall this spring (she taught a studio here last year in the spring) for an intensive design studio which, this year, focuses on a portion of James Corner Field Operations’ plan for the Seattle...

Japan Studio Spring 2013, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Associate Professor | Arch 506/402  This graduate/undergraduate architecture studio investigates the nature of Metabolic urbanism from premodern times to the present through a 10-day study tour to Japan during spring break 2013 as the basis for...

Japan Studio Spring 2013, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Associate Professor | Arch 506/402 This graduate/undergraduate architecture studio investigates the nature of Metabolic urbanism from pre-modern times to the present through a 10-day study tour to Japan during spring break 2013 as the basis for...

A storm has just passed through Seattle leaving nearly 50 large-scale tectonic models in its wake. Over the past eight weeks, ARCH 501 graduate students have developed conceptual ideas for farmer’s markets, mixed-use timber high-rises, and urban waterway research facilities. Inspired by...