Summer Quarter

The Department of Landscape Architecture is pleased to provide the following summer courses for 2013. Current students looking for electives, prospective students interested in the landscape architecture program, and individuals seeking educational enrichment opportunities are welcome to enroll. Some courses run for only half of the summer quarter while others last the whole term. The quarter ends in late August, leaving ample time for a break before classes resume in the autumn.

This year the following classes will be offered:

• LARCH 300: Introduction to Landscape Architecture (6 credits) VLPA
  Full Term: June 24 - August 23 2013
  MWF 1:10pm-5:00pm, Gould 312A
  
  This course introduces students to the history, design process and environmental concerns pertaining to the field of landscape architecture. Through course assignments, students will acquire design and graphic skills for the development of analysis, conceptual and representational drawings. Students will engage in critiques that encourage an understanding of design values and build fundamental verbal and graphic communication skills
  
  Course Instructor: Luanne Smith + Elizabeth Umbanhowar
  
  This is a prerequisite course for students applying to the BLA program.

• LARCH 498A/598A Reading the Elwha: Exploring social, cultural, and biophysical transitions in the Elwah Watershed (4 credits)
  Partial B Term: July 25 planning mtg, July 29 - August 2 2013 Field trip
  
  This field-based course will examine the social and cultural transitions that have occurred within the biophysical context of the watershed over the past 150 years. Students enrolled in this course will travel to the Olympic Peninsula and spend five days tracing the river course of the Elwha River by reading and recording their observations. Students will be camping at designated sites and are asked to bring their own provisions. Transportation will be provided.
  
  Course Instructor: Ken Yocom
  
  Please contact instructor at kyocom@uw.edu for more information. Downoad the course flyer

• LARCH498C Summer Design/Build Program - NEW ORLEANS Study Abroad (4-6 credits)
  Summer Program: June 17 - July 26, 2013
  
  Application deadline: May 20, 2013
  Informational sessions: March 22 (12:30pm), April 15 (12:30pm)
  Gould Hall, Room 312
  
  This course is open to students at all levels and from all disciplines. Led by Professor Daniel Winterbottom, we will be working with the community of Gretna, LA and Jefferson Parish to design and build a “serenity” garden in a public park. This multifunctional “serenity” garden will create a gateway into the community, provide a setting for a historic building which will function as a vistor center, and provide the community with a contemplative place to relax and learn. A reflection of historic and vernacular gardens of the period, this garden will also explore issues of sustainability and community expression. Design or construction experience is not required. All participants will partake in the design, community and building processes. This will be complemented with field trips to natural and cultural places in and around the city of New Orleans.
  
  
  
  Course Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
  Please contact instructor at nina at uw dot edu for more information.
  Download the program flyer
  
  
• Chinese Landscapes and Urbanism (3 credits)
  B Term: June 25 - August 23, 2013
  
  Registration deadline: May 20, 2013
  
  Students from Landscape, Urban Design and Planning, Architecture, Art, International studies and other departments are all welcome.
  
  This course will survey the history of Chinese landscapes, starting from the earliest imperial game reservation, scholar gardens in Suzhou, the imperial landscapes of Chang’an, Dadu, the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, to the contemporary rapid urbanization and its resulting social transformation. The economic, socio-cultural and political context and implications of urban landscapes will be discussed, such as vernacular traditional knowledge of fengshui, Daoist idea of energy or qi, the philosophy and aesthetics of wuwei, and current pursuit of development and modernization. The influence on early Japanese gardens and modern international practices of Chinese landscapes will also be explored.
  
  Class sessions will include lectures and discussion. Students will gain knowledge of landscape architecture and especially the discipline’s development in China, an understanding of cultural influences in Chinese gardens and cities, and a perspective that examines urbanization and landscape practice in contemporary Chinese context.
  
  Course Instructor: Jiawen Hu
  Please contact instructor at jiawenhu at uw dot edu.
  Download the course flyer
  
  
• Early Fall Exploration Seminar Program - CROATIA Study Abroad
  Early Fall Exploration Seminar: August 24 - September 24, 2013
  
  Application deadline: March 1, 2013
  Informational sessions: February 8 (12pm), February 19 (12pm)
  Gould Hall, Room 102
  
  The Summer Croatia Design/Build 2013 Program is a service learning opportunity which brings students to the Psihijatrijska Bolnica Rab on the Island of Rab on the Mid-Adriatic Coast. Students will collaborate with our partners, the residents and therapists at the hospital to design and build some small modest therapeutic spaces within the hospital complex. This project will build upon work that was completed in Fall 2012. The hospital contains extensive lavender fields, natural areas and a cluster of wards with courtyards and open spaces. Prior to being a hospital, the site was used for officers at the Rab Concentration Camp during WWII.
  
  
  
  Course Instructor: Daniel Winterbottom
  Please contact instructor at nina at uw dot edu for more information.
  Download the program flyer

To register, go to http://www.summer.washington.edu/summer. For more information on specific Landscape Architecture courses, please contact Vanessa Lee