People

Nancy Rottle

Director & Professor Emeritus

Nancy Rottle, PLA, FASLA, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington where she has served on the faculties of Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Urban Planning and Design. As Director of the Green Futures Research and Design Lab she leads projects addressing urban and regional green infrastructure, including parks and open space, habitat, stormwater, active transport and community design. A licensed landscape architect, Professor Rottle’s many years of professional practice facilitates her bridging of academic research and applied planning and design. Nancy lectures globally and in addition to publishing numerous papers and book chapters, she is the co-author of Basics Landscape Architecture: Ecological Design (AVA Press 2011), co-editor of a special issue of Places Journal on Climate Change and Place (2008), vice-chair of the 2014 edited Water Environment Federation volume, Green Infrastructure Implementation, and author of The Art of Sustainable Stormwater (Routledge, 2025).

Catherine De Almeda

Associate Professor

Trained as a building architect and landscape architect, Catherine’s design research, landscape lifecycles, applies material, social, ecological, and economic lifecycle lenses to the understanding and design of waste landscapes. Her work emphasizes waste relations to illuminate the performance, visibility, citizenships, emotions, perceptions, attitudes, and injustices of waste materials and landscapes. Catherine received her Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University and her Bachelors of Architecture from Pratt Institute. She is a certified remote drone pilot, an Honorary Member of the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts, and a Fellow of Urban@UW. Her work has been supported by numerous grants, and recognized in national and international publications and media outlets, including Landscape Research, The Plan Journal, Landscape Research Record, Journal of Landscape Architecture, and Journal of Architectural Education.

Vincent Javet

Assistant Teaching Professor

Vincent Javet is a Swiss-Canadian designer, researcher and educator. Trained as a landscape architect (MLA, University of Toronto) and urban planner (BURPl, Toronto Metropolitan University), he serves as Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington where he directs the Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Program and leads the Scan Design Foundation’s Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Studio Program. His work explores relationships between technology, ecology, urbanism, and making.

Julie Kriegh

Affiliate Lecturer

Dr. Julie Kriegh, principal and founder of KRIEGH ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS | Design + Research, is currently working on several research initiatives at the University of Washington, Seattle. Collaborating with a team of university researchers and industry partners on sustainability issues, Dr. Kriegh is leading research on building and occupant performance using wireless sensing devices and tailored feedback on energy use in residential settings. As a Research Scientist, she belongs to a consortium between UW, UA, Microsoft and Google researching the future of sustainable Data Centers. In addition, Dr. Kriegh worked with the UW Carbon Leadership Forum investigating materials for the Carbon Storing Data Center of the future to advance Microsoft’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2030 and carbon negative by 2050, and has led several community sustainability visioning processes with the Green Futures Research and Design Lab.

Sloane Palmer

Lab Manager, Masters of Landscape Architecture Candidate

Sloane Palmer is a Masters of Landscape Architecture student at the University of Washington. She has a background in environmental restoration and horticulture. Her research interests include urban ecological design and green stormwater infrastructure. As a Green Futures Lab manager, she oversees the Sweetgrass Marine Wetland and Biodiversity Green Wall projects.

Mason Bowles

P.W.S., Technical Lead – Duwamish Floating Wetlands Project and Sweetgrass Restoration Project