A group of Washington State University Landscape Architecture students are hoping to help the communities of Malden, and Pine City, reimagine their outdoor spaces.
Landscape architecture students are reimagining the future of the small towns of Malden and Pine City, Washington, which had much of their homes and buildings destroyed during a devastating fire on Labor Day in 2020.
Faculty and staff from nine bachelor’s-degree programs were recognized for their student assessment efforts that helped guide changes to undergraduate curriculum or instruction.
April 1, 2021
Washington State University’s School of Design and Construction and the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments are working together with Site Workshop, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN), and Berger Partnership to create an endowed scholarship in their respective landscape architecture programs to support students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
Site Workshop, a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, began the process to establish the BIPOC LA Scholarship with WSU and UW in 2020.
“For years we have discussed the need for diversity in the landscape architecture industry and especially in the Pacific Northwest but 2020 brought into sharp focus just how urgently this needs to change, and the design community has the ability, even responsibility to make an immediate impact,” said Mark Brands, managing principal of Site Workshop.