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Associate Professor Assistant Professor Lecturers- Luanne Smith
- Nhon Truong
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Associate Professor, Chair, Landscape Architecture
348 Gould Hall
Box 355734
Seattle WA 98195-5734
jhou@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/jhou/
206.543.7225
jeff hou | curriculum vita | courses taught
Associate Professor Jeff Hou has taught in the department since 2001 where he also served as the Graduate Program Coordinator, prior to becoming the Department Chair. Prof. Hou’s research, teaching, and practice focus on engaging marginalized communities and citizens through community design, design activism, and cross-cultural learning. His work also addresses social/ecological hybridity in the urban landscapes.
In a career that spans across the Pacific, he has worked with indigenous tribes, farmers, and fishers in Taiwan, neighborhood residents in Japan, and inner-city immigrant youths and elders in American cities, in projects ranging from conservation of wildlife habitats to rebuilding of indigenous villages and design of urban open space and streetscapes. His research on innovative practices of community participation and design education has been published in Journal of Planning Education and Research, Landscape Journal, Journal of Architectural Education, and Open House International. He is a co-author of Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Urban Community Gardens in Seattle (with Julie Johnson and Laura Lawson) (UW Press 2009). He is also a contributor to Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism (Bell and Wakeford, eds., Metropolis Books 2008) and the editor of a forthcoming book, Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities, to be published by Routledge.
Prof. Hou has been a recipient of grants from the Landscape Architecture Foundation and the Pacific Rim Research Program of the University of California. He has served on the board of the Association for Community Design, and co-chairs the advisory committee for the ID2030 Design & Resource Center in Seattle’s International District. As a coordinator for the Pacific Rim Community Design Network, he helped organize the first Conference on Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim in Berkeley in 1998. Prof. Hou has a multidisciplinary background in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and public art. He received his PhD in Environmental Planning and Master of Architecture from University of California, Berkeley. He also has a Master of Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor of Architecture from the Cooper Union.