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Thaisa Way

Thaisa Way FASLA, FARR. BS UC Berkeley, M’ArchH UVa, PhD Cornell University is the Director of Studies of Garden & Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University research institution. She is an urban landscape historian engaged in teaching and researching history, theory, and design in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle (currently on leave). She has published and lectured on feminist histories of landscape architecture. Her book, Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design (2009, University of Virginia Press) was awarded the J.B. Jackson Book Award in 2012. Her book From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design: the Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag (University of Washington Press 2015) explores the narrative of post-industrial cities and the practice of landscape architecture. She has edited two books in urban environmental history and practice including Now Urbanism (Routeledge, 2013) with Jeff Hou, Ken Yocom, and Ben Spencer, and River Cities/City Rivers (Harvard Press, forthcoming). She recently completed the monograph, Landscape Architect A.E. Bye: Sculpting the Earth, Modern Landscape Design Series (Norton Publishing, 2017). She served as Chair and Senior Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies, member of the jury for the ASLA professional awards and was selected and served as the 2015-2016 Garden Club of America Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome. She currently served as the founding director of Urban@UW, a coalition of urban researchers and teachers collaboratively addressing complex urban challenges.
Phone: 206 685 2523
Address: Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
Adjunct, Department of Architecture
Faculty,
Adjunct, Department of History,
Faculty in Historic Preservation Certificate and Urban Design Certificate Programs
348F Gould Hall
Box 355734
College of Built Environments
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195-5734

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Books by Thaisa Way

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, city dwellers today live in suburban subdivisi... more After more than a century of heroic urban visions, city dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning.

As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today’s cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The contributions inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.

Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these contributions written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city.

Papers by Thaisa Way

Landscape Architecture Magazine, Sep 2014

Journal of Landscape Architecture (JOLA), May 2013

Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jan 2014

Preservation Education & Research, 2009

Studies in the History of Gardens and Landscapes, Jan 1, 2005

Planning for Higher Education. Vol. 40.2 (January-March 2012): 25-47., Feb 2012

Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice, Edited by Linda Jewell and Louise Mozingo, , Jan 1, 2012

Journal of Landscape Architecture/autumn, Jan 1, 2009

At first glance Unbounded Practice is the story of six women and their involvement in the profess... more At first glance Unbounded Practice is the story of six women and their involvement in the profession of landscape architecture in America during its for-mative early years. Two of them, Beatrix Jones Far-rand and Ellen Biddle Shipman, will be familiar to landscape historians from ...

Landscape Journal, Jan 1, 2006