The University of Washington Board of Regents established an architectural commission in December 1957 to advise the board and the president on matters concerning the design, function, performance, and environmental integrity of the university’s buildings, landscapes, infrastructure, and urban amenities. The Campus Landscape Advisory Committee was established in 1970 and is now integrated with the UW Architectural Commission.
In its advisory capacity, the commission reviews and evaluates plans and projects that affect the aesthetic character and composition of the university’s three campuses. It reviews the selection of building sites, the design of new buildings and public spaces, major additions and modifications to these elements, and campus plans; and it issues general and specific recommendations related to these elements, and to design and planning policies that ensure the aesthetic and historic integrity of the public settings of university life. Landscape design considers screening and development, pedestrian circulation and experience, open space development and connectivity, and conformance with the campus master plans.
The commission assists the regents and president in the selection of architects, landscape architects, and consultants for all projects that influence the physical and aesthetic character of its campuses and periodically reviews the design of these projects through all phases of their development. In addition, the commission periodically reviews and evaluates the university campus master and subsidiary plans, and advises the president on related architectural, open space, landscape and environmental issues as they may arise, including historic conservation.
Schedule
The UW Architectural Commission and the UW Landscape Advisory Committee meet together five to six times a year. Meeting documents are linked in the Archive section below.
UWAC chair:
- Ken Yocom, John and Rosalind Jacobi Family Endowed Dean, College of Built Environments
Faculty representative:
- Kathryn Merlino, Associate Professor of Architecture, College of Built Environments
ASUW representative:
- Vacant, Student, Architecture
- Vacant, Student, Architecture
Professional members:
- Edwin Harris, FAIA, EVOKE Studio
- John Syvertsen, FAIA, Architect, Educator and Advisor
- Julie Snow, FAIA, NOMA, Snow Kreilich Architects
- Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, Marlon Blackwell Architects
UW Facilities:
- Rod Worden, Interim Vice President of UW Facilities
- Steve Tatge, Associate Vice President of Asset Management, UW Facilities
- Kristine Kenney, ASLA, Executive Director of Campus Architecture & Planning, University Landscape Architect
2025 meetings
All files are in PDF format.
November 10
- Agenda
- Welcome center summary & presentation
September 8
- Agenda
- Minutes
-
Chemical Sciences Building summary & presentation
June 9
March 24
- Agenda
- Seattle Campus Master Plan
- Bothell Campus Master Plan
- UW Seattle’s Integrated Build Design_101
- Tacoma Campus Master Plan
2024 meetings
December 16
August 12
- Agenda
- Minutes
- ASUW Shellhouse summary & presentation
- Chemical Sciences Building summary & presentation
May 6
- Agenda
- Anderson Hall summary & presentation
- Haggett Hall summary & presentation
- UH4 Blakely and Laurel summary
- UH4 Blakely presentation
- UH4 Laurel presentation
February 5
- Agenda (pdf)
- UH4 project summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
2023 meetings
March 6
- Agenda (pdf)
- Minutes (pdf)
- ICA Basketball Training Facility summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Haggett Hall project summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
September 11 & 12
- Agenda (pdf)
- Minutes (pdf)
- Haggett Hall project summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- ICA Basketball Training Facility summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
December 4
- Agenda (pdf)
- Minutes (pdf)
- Anderson Hall project summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- UH4 summary (pdf), presentation (pages 1-9 (pdf), pages 10-36 (pdf), pages 37-60 (pdf)) & adjacent properties map (pdf)
- Hagget Hall project summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
2022 meetings
January 10
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
-
College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Engineering Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
March 14
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
-
College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Engineering Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
-
ICA Basketball Operations and H2P Center summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
-
Site W27 summary (pdf)
-
UWMC Montlake Membrane & Landscape Replacement summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
August 8
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
-
College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Engineering Building presentation (pdf)
-
Site W27 summary (pdf) & presentation (presentation pages 1-31 (pdf); presentation pages 32-53 (pdf))
December 12
2021 meetings
February 1
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Site W27 summary (pdf)
- Milgard Hall summary (pdf)
- Behavioral Health Teaching Facility summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- UW Bothell + Cascadia College Phase 4 STEM Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Health Science Education Building summary (pdf)
June 14
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Project updates presentation (pdf)
- Behavioral Health Teaching Facility summary (pdf)
- Milgard Hall summary (pdf)
- UW Bothell + Cascadia College Phase 4 STEM Building summary (pdf)
- ICA Basketball Operations and H2P Center summary (pdf)
August 13
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Site W27 summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Engineering Building summary (pdf)
- ICA Basketball Operations and H2P Center summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
October 25 & 26
2020 meetings
January 27
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Health Science Education Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Foster School: Founders Hall summary (pdf)
- Behavioral Health Teaching Hospital summary (pdf)
April 27
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Milgard Hall summary (docx) & presentation (pptx)
- University District Station Building (UDSB) summary (docx)
- UW Bothell + Cascadia College Phase 4 STEM Building summary (docx) & presentation (pdf)
June 8
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Health Science Education Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Foster School: Founders Hall summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
August 10
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Milgard Hall summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Behavioral Health Teaching Facility summary (pdf) & presentation (pptx)
- UW Bothell + Cascadia College Phase 4 STEM Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- UW Bothell Husky Village Redevelopment summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Engineering Building summar (pdf)y & presentation (pptx)
October 26
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Health Science Education Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Behavioral Health Teaching Facility summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- UW Bothell + Cascadia College Phase 4 STEM Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Milgard Hall summary (pdf)
- UWAC governance documents (pdf)
December 14
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Engineering Building summary (pdf)
- UW Bothell Husky Village Redevelopment summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
2019 meetings
February 4
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (docx)
- Foster School: Founders Hall
April 29
- Agenda (pdf) and project summaries (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Project presentations:
July 16
August 12
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Health Science Education Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Foster School: Founders Hall summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Behavioral Health Teaching Hospital summary & presentation (pdf)
October 28
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Health Science Education Building presentation (pdf)
- Foster School: Founders Hall presentation (pdf)
December 16
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (docx)
- UW Bothell + Cascadia College Phase 4 STEM Building summary (pdf) & presentation (pptx)
- Milgard Hall summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
2018 meetings
January 22
- Agenda (pdf)
- Population Health Facility:
August 8
- Agenda (pdf)
- Project summaries:
October 29
2017 meetings
January 22/23
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (docx)
- North Campus Housing IVb summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Population Health Facility summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
April 10
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting materials packet (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- North Campus Housing IVb (pdf)
- Population Health Facility (pdf)
- UW Bothell-Cascadia College Campus Master Plan (pdf)
June 5
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Population Health Facility summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
June 26
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (docx)
- North Campus Housing IVb summary (pdf) & presentation (pdf)
- Population Health Facility summary & site map (pdf)
- Updates:
September 7
2016 meetings
January 28
March 28
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- Sount Transit U District Station design finishes (pdf)
- Computer Science & Engineering Building II design update (pdf)
- Updates:
June 17
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- Computer Science & Engineering Building II update (pdf)
- North Campus Housing Phase IV(b) Hagget & Oak Halls initial thinking (pdf)
- Projects in predesign:
August 30
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- Computer Science & Engineering Building II landscape design update (pdf)
September 26
- Agenda (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- UW Bothell/Cascadia College Campus Master Plan (pdf)
2015 meetings
February 17
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- UWMC Main Entrance Upgrade predesign approval (pdf), site plan (pdf) & update presentation (pdf)
- West Campus Utility Plant interim design review (pdf), site map (pdf) & update presentation (pdf)
March 30
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- Burke Gilman Trail Phase I update (pdf)
- West Campus Utility Plant design development approval (pdf)
- New Burke Museum design development approval (pdf)
- Mackenzie Hall replacement feasibility study (pdf)
- South Campus Study II (pdf)
- Life Sciences Building schematic design information (pdf)
June 29
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- North Campus Housing Phase IV(a) schematic design update (pdf)
- Campus Landscape Framework update (pdf)
- UWMC Main Entrance Upgrade design development approval (pdf)
- Lunch briefing: WCUP, New Burke Museum, UW Tacoma Urban Solutions Center (pdf)
- Wayfinding & Signage design development update (pdf)
- Campus Master Plan initial framework (pdf)
- Life Sciences Building schematic design approval (pdf)
September 28
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- Campus Master Plan existing conditions analysis (pdf)
- North Campus Housing Phase IV(a) schematic design approval (pdf)
- Life Sciences Building design development approval (pdf)
December 7
- Agenda (pdf)
- Meeting minutes (pdf)
- Commissioner materials packet (pdf)
- Wayfinding & Signage information (pdf)
- Campus Master Plan update (pdf)
- North Campus Housing Phase IV(a) design development approval (pdf)
December 22
- Meeting notes (docx)
- Computer Science & Engineering Building II schematic design approval (pdf), site map (pdf) & presentation (pdf)