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University of Washington, College of Built Environments records, 1914-2020

Overview of the Collection

Creator
University of Washington. College of Built Environments
Title
University of Washington, College of Built Environments records
Dates
1914-2020 (inclusive)
Quantity
56 cubic feet (50 boxes, 1 folder, and 0.0068GB of digital files)
Collection Number
UW Resource No. 00263
Summary
Organizational records of the University of Washington College of Built Environments (formerly known as Architecture and Urban Planning)
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users, but access to portions of the records restricted. Contact repository for details.

Request at UW

Some material stored offsite; advance notice required for use.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

The Department of Architecture was established in 1914 as a part of the College of Fine Arts. An Urban Design and Planning department was added in 1941, and it joined with Architecture to form a separate college in 1957. The Department of Landscape Architecture and Building Construction was initiated in 1960, and separated into two different departments in 1963. In 1983, the College was renamed the College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Currently, the College consists of four departments: Architecture, Construction Management, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning. All four components are directly concerned with the design and development of the physical environment. The College focuses on environmental design disciplines with a liberal arts context; students often use the UW campus and the city of Seattle as labs for practical study applications. The name changed to the College of Built Environments in 2009.

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Content Description

Historical features, correspondence, minutes, annual reports, accreditation files, committee files, conference files, curriculum files, donor files, financial records, planning files, subject files, publications, newsletters, photographs, and digital files of interviews.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Public Records—not subject to copyright. Copying, quotation, publication and other uses are unrestricted if records are open for public release.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized into 14 accessions.

  • Accession No. 71-046, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1969-1970
  • Accession No. 78-046, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1957-1977
  • Accession No. 79-008, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Publications, 1968-1978
  • Accession No. 90-040, University of Washington Department of Urban Planning records, 1949- 1983
  • Accession No. 92-188, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1950-1990
  • Accession No. 94-009, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1958
  • Accession No. 95-114, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Annual Reports, 1968-1982
  • Accession No. 96-191, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Termination Review Committee for B.A. Degree in Architecture Records, 1968-1983
  • Accession No. 96-199, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1957-1995
  • Accession No. 97-029, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1968-1991
  • Accession No. 97-089, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1989-1995
  • Accession No. 05-023, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Records, 1914-1996
  • Accession No. 16-035, University of Washington, College of Architecture and Urban Planning records, 1948-1968
  • Accession No. 22-009, College of Built Environments Coastal Hazards Planning in Time Oral Histories Collection, August - September 2020
  • Accession No. 25-027, University of Washington Department of Urban Design and Planning records, 1975-2014

Related Materials

The UW College of Built Environments website has been regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since 2014. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/4366/*/http://be.washington.edu/

The Center for Environmental Education and Design Studies website was captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine once in May 2021 and can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/4366/*/http://ceeds.be.uw.edu/

The Design Machine Group website was captured several times at the beginning of 2022 and can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/4366/*/http://dmg.be.washington.edu/

A webpage listing individual project blogs for the DMG can be found archived here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/4366/*/http://d2.be.washington.edu/projects

Several projects done under the College of Built Environments have had their webpages captured as well including Targeting 100! and Regional Open Space Strategy (ROSS). The Targeting 100! snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/4366/*/http://t100.be.uw.edu/

The ROSS snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/4366/*/https://openspacepugetsound.org/

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

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Subject Terms

  • Architecture--Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Schools of architecture--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Moseley, Spencer

Corporate Names

  • University of Washington--Departments
  • University of Washington. College of Architecture and Urban Planning--Archives
  • University of Washington. College of Architecture and Urban Planning--Employees
  • University of Washington. College of Architecture and Urban Planning--Faculty
  • University of Washington. College of Architecture and Urban Planning--Students


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