Category: Architecture and design
10 Web Exclusive(s) found that match this category.
The Palouse Country Club, 1975
Fall 2012
Architecture students of 1975-77 gathered on campus as The Palouse Country Club, in the this photo courtesy Gene Callan '76.
Categories: Architecture and design, Alumni
Tags: Architects
Video: An interview with architect Jim Olson
Winter 2011
Pacific Northwest architect Jim Olson designs homes built for art. In this video he talks about early inspiration, the relationships between art and architecture, and the Northwest aesthetic. Read more about Olson, and the retrospective of his c...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Northwest architecture, Art museums, Architects, Video
Video: Build a Bouquet of Local Flowers
Summer 2011
Diane Szukovathy from Jello Mold Farm in Washington state's Skagit Valley puts together a bouquet of locally-grown flowers and offers tips to gardeners on building their own bouquet of blooms. Diane and her husband Dennis Westphall grow cut flowers. ...
Categories: Architecture and design, Botany
Tags: Video, Sustainability, Gardening, Flowers
Video: WSU arboretum and wildlife conservation center groundbreaking ceremony
Winter 2010
April 23, 2010. Courtesy WSU College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences"It is impossible to imagine a world-class university without an arboretum. It reconnects you to the earth and is an important place for a university community t...
Categories: Campus life, Architecture and design
Tags: Arboretum, Bears, Gathering circle, Buildings
Design presentations from the “Powering the Palouse” symposium
Winter 2009
Bob Scarfo, an associate professor with Washington State
University’s Interdisciplinary Design Institute, and his landscape
architecture students explore the benefits of re-introducing passenger rail between Spokane and the Pullman/Moscow area in...
Categories: Architecture and design, Engineering
Tags: Trains, Railroad, Palouse, Transportation
New Urbanism: Resources for further reading
Spring 2008
If you've read David Wang's essay "Meditations on a Strip Mall," you're already aware that, while it may not be controversial, New Urbanism enjoys less than universal favor among architects and/or urban planners. So we offer three ...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Malls
A new kind of chop suey: China's contemporary urban architecture
Summer 2006
Visiting China's cities in recent years is like watching time-lapse photography. Consider: the city of Shanghai had one skyscraper in 1985; now they are legion. In 1988, I looked from Shanghai's famous Peace Hotel on the Bund to the far side of the H...
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: China
Better living...through solar
Spring 2006
For more than two years, a group of Washington State University
students in architecture, construction management, interior design,
and engineering designed and built a solar house, including all of
its systems, from the ground up. In September 20...
Categories: Architecture and design, Environmental studies
Tags: Solar power, Buildings
Bringing couture to campus: A gallery from the 22nd Annual Mom's Weekend Fashion Show
Fall 2005
The 22nd Annual Mom's Weekend Fashion Show, held April 8, 2005,
in Beasley Coliseum, featured the work of 13 Washington State
University student designers from the Department of Apparel,
Merchandising, Design and Textiles.Thanks to Jane Lawford, A...
Categories: Architecture and design, WSU students
Tags: Apparel design, Fashion
Birth, Death & Architecture
Summer 2005
Architecture professor Paul Hirzel wanted to push his students out of
their mindsets. So he asked them to design a single building for both
the beginning and the end of life: a funeral home/birthing center.
Categories: Architecture and design
Tags: Birth, Death