Save the Date

Rome Dinner
April 24
The Rome Dinner and Auction is an annual tradition; all proceeds directly benefit the students of the UW Architecture in Rome Program for autumn quarter 2009.
For information, e-mail ndtate@u.washington.edu

Soaring Health and Energy Costs, Crashing Economies and Ecosystems
April 27, 2009, 6:30-8 p.m., UW Campus
This free lecture by Richard Jackson, professor and chair, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, looks at how cross-discipline efforts to create environments and architecture that enhance exercise, socialization and energy efficiency can tackle such diseases as obesity, diabetes, depression, loss of fitness and lung ailments. Good design can solve more than financial and site constraints; it can fix personal and societal health and environment challenges.
         Advance registration is requested; get more information and register online or call (206) 543-0540.

Educating the Citizen Architect
May 18, 2009, 6:30-8 p.m., UW Campus
This free lecture by Andrew Freear, director, Rural Studio, Auburn University, Ala., will give a critical insiders’ review of the work of Rural Studio. The mission of the Rural Studio is to enable each participating student to cross the threshold of misconceived opinions to create/design/build and to allow students to put their educational values to work as citizens of a community.
         Advance registration is requested; get more information and register online or call (206) 543-0540.

Celebrate 50th anniversary of the MUP program
Date TBD
Planning is under way by the Department of Urban Design and Planning for a celebration that reflects its past as it looks to the future. The event will take place in May.
         Alumni and friends will be invited back for a Friday all-MUP happy hour (complete with commemorative pint glass), optional roundtable discussions on "the Sustainable City" on Saturday, followed by a dinner. Keep an eye out for more news, via e-mail or the UDP Facebook group (if you haven't been receiving e-mails or the department newsletter but would like to, contact Jan Brooks at udp@u.washington.edu). The anniversary event’s organizing committee of two alumni, two Professionals' Council members, two students, and two faculty members welcomes your input.