University of Washington College of Built Environments

Gould hall atrium

The College of Built Environments or CBE at the University of Washington is the new name, as of January 1, 2009, of the college formerly called the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The old name was adopted in 1957-58 when the college had only two departments, architecture and planning. Today, however, the College of Built Environments is made up of four Departments, Architecture, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design & Planning, and houses two interdisciplinary Ph.D. degrees, as well as several interdisciplinary centers and institutes. The new name reflects the integrated approach to planning, design and construction that will be necessary to take on the 21st century global challenges of urbanization and climate change.

History

The College of Built Environments traces its history to 1914, when the Department of Architecture was founded (initially as a subdivision in a College of Fine Arts). The Department grew slowly and focused strictly on architecture until the early 1940s when a city planning curriculum was inaugurated. After the Second World War, the architecture and planning programs grew rapidly. The College of Architecture and Urban Planning was established in 1957; Arthur Herrman was the first Dean. Architecture and Urban Planning (now Urban Design and Planning) were established as separate Departments within the CAUP by 1961; Landscape Architecture and Building Construction (now Construction Management) were established as Departments later in the 1960s. Other programs were added in the last forty years, most recently the Ph.D. in the Built Environment in 2003. In 2007 the faculty of the college began searching for a new name. The Regents of the University of Washington approved the name in fall 2008. The College of Built Environments name became official in January 2009.

Facilities

The College is housed in Gould Hall (named after Carl F. Gould, founder and first head of the Department of Architecture), Architecture Hall (constructed 1907-9 to serve as a chemistry building, but used during the A-Y-P Exposition as the Fine Arts Palace), and several smaller structures.

Architecture Hall in 1909

The College has several facilities for supporting the work of students, faculty, and staff, including the Digital Commons (which houses Computing Services for the College), and the Visual Resources Collection.

Departments and Programs

The four CBE departments offer degrees in architecture (B.A. in architecture studies, M.Arch., M.S. in Architecture), landscape architecture (B.L.A., M.L.A.), construction management (B.S. and M.S. in Construction Management), and urban planning (B.A. in Community, Environment, and Planning [1], and M.U.P.). The College offers a Ph.D. in the Built Environment, and participates in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Planning.

Some notable faculty

Steve Badanes Thomas Bosworth Francis D.K. Ching Meredith Clausen Lee Copeland Jerry Finrow Daniel S. Friedman Carl F. Gould Richard Haag Grant Hildebrand Norman Johnston

Doug Kelbaugh Wendell Lovett David Miller Anne Vernez Moudon Jeffrey Ochsner Barry Onouye Sergio Palleroni Vikramaditya Prakash Lionel Pries Hermann Pundt Michael Pyatok

George Rolfe John Schaufelberger Paul Schell Victor Steinbrueck David Streatfield Sharon Sutton Harlan Thomas George Tsutakawa Gordon Varey Myer Wolfe Astra Zarina

Some notable students

Ken Anderson Ralph Anderson Elizabeth Ayer Fred Bassetti Welton Becket Samuel Chamberlain Lee Copeland Dave Dederer Jerry Finrow Thomas Galloway Stephen Grabow Robert Hanna L. Jane Hastings Anne Gould Hauberg

Steven Holl Perry Johanson A. Quincy Jones Grant Jones Ilse Jones Paul H. Kirk Tom Kundig Wendell Lovett David McKinley George Nakashima Laurie Olin James Olson Norman Pfeiffer

Peter Steinbrueck Victor Steinbrueck Cynthia Sullivan Rick Sundberg Jennifer Taylor Roland Terry Paul Thiry Frederick Wagner Ed Weinstein George ("Pete") Wimberly Walter Wurdeman Minoru Yamasaki Astra Zarina

References

• Booth, T. William, and Wilson, William H., Carl F. Gould: A Life in Architecture and the Arts, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London 1995.

• Johnston, Norman J., The College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Seventy Five Years at the University of Washington: A Personal View, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Seattle 1991.

• Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2007. ISBN 0-295-98698-0

• Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, "Modern or Traditional? Lionel H. Pries and Architectural Education at the University of Washington, 1928-1942", Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Summer 2005), pages 132-150.

External links

• Official site