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Architecture: UW Campus Architecture
Subject Guide for Architecture and Architectural History Students.
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Most building records and documents are available online through the Facilities Information Library, except for a small portion of project manuals still in paper format and documents in microfiche and microfilm formats available for viewing at our office. (Requires UW NetID) - Facilities Services Design GuideThe Facilities Services Design Guide is for the use of design professionals to facilitate design and construction of University facilities.
- Facilities Services GISNear the top of this page, you should see a header that includes a dropdown menu and three links. Use the Public Maps dropdown to view maps that Facilities Services makes available to the public.
- Facilities Document ServicesFacilities Services Records provides a number of options for processing and delivering facility/building documents including some scanning/digitization ad CAD files (for a fee).
- Capital Planning and Development (CPD)Capital Planning & Development (CPD) is comprised of several units brought together to provide coordinated, consistent and comprehensive capital projects. Our service groups include: Real Estate, Architecture and Planning, Major Capital Projects, Special Projects and Design Services, and Business Services (information systems, project controls, estimating, contracts, sustainability, and accounting). CPD’s purpose is to optimize the value of the university’s physical assets to support and inspire students, faculty, staff and all who visit the university’s campuses and use its services to improve the well-being and prosperity of our region and beyond.
- Pacific Coast Architecture DatabaseThe Pacific Coast Architecture Database has information and images of buildings and their designers in the states of California, Oregon and Washington.
- University of Washington ArchivesHistorical University records relating to the administrative, academic, legal, fiscal, social and cultural interaction of individuals, departments and programs of the University since 1861
- University of Washington Libraries - Special CollectionsUniversity of Washington Libraries' Special Collections collects, preserves and makes accessible rare books, manuscripts, papers, records, photographs, moving images and architectural drawings
UW Campus History Books
University of Washington by Call Number: Built Environments Library - LD5754 .J58 2001ISBN: 9781568982472Publication Date: 2001-01-01The newest titles in the Princeton Architectural PressCampus Guide series take readers on an insider's tour of the University of Washington in Seattle, Rice University in Houston, and Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Beautifully photographed in full color, the guides present architectural walks at three of America's finest campuses, revealing the stories behind the historic and contemporary buildings, gardens, and works of public art. The University of Washington, designed by landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers, features works by Bebb and Gould, Cesar Pelli, Edward Larrabee Barns, and Gwathmey Siegel.
The Fountain and the Mountain by Call Number: Built Environments Library - LD5754 .J58 2001ISBN: 9780971908413Publication Date: 2004-06-15Every visitor who strolls the University of Washington campus exclaims at its beauty. For students, faculty and staff the campus is a daily pleasure, and for alumni a treasured memory.
The first edition of The Fountain & the Mountain was created to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the UW campus in 1995. In 1895, thirty-four years after opening its doors in "downtown" Seattle (population 200), the University moved to more spacious quarters at its present site. The first building on that forested site, now Denny Hall, remains an important part of the University over a century later. The campus that has evolved around it fulfills the dreams of the University’s early pioneers. This edition clearly demonstrates the ongoing vitality of the campus, documenting the completion of buildings and spaces that could only be imagined a few years ago.
A Natural History of the University of Washington by Call Number: Built Environments Library - LD5753 .T87 1989Publication Date: 1989
Historic Buildings on Campus
Denny Hall (completed 1895)
Suzzallo Library (completed 1927)
Savery Hall (completed 1920)
UW Data & Information
Campus Master Plans
- Current Master PlanOffices of Capital Planning & Development (CPD)
- 1915 Campus Planby architect Carl F. Gould
historylink.org - 1891 - 1915 Campus PlansUW Libraries Special Collections
In Memoriam: Norman Johnston
“Norman J. Johnston will be remembered as a dedicated and community-minded architect, city planner, teacher and critic. Johnston earned a bachelor’s degree in art from the University of Washington in 1942. He returned to the campus in 1960 as a faculty member in architecture and urban planning, and taught until his retirement in the early 1990s. During that lengthy tenure, he served 16 years as associate dean of what was then the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and spent a year as chair of the Department of Architecture. Johnston was also a campus historian. He wrote the popular 1995 UW history, “The Fountain and the Mountain: The University of Washington, 1895-1995” and a book-length “personal view” of the college at its 75th anniversary, published in 1991, as well as many articles in scholarly journals. He also served as architecture critic for The Seattle Times in the 1980s.”
< excepts from Peter Kelley’s Remembering architect, author, critic Norman Johnston 1918 – 2015, UWNews (2015, March 18) >