Jeff Hou

Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington

Jeff Hou is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design & Planning at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on public space, democracy, and civic engagement. Hou is recognized for his work on guerrilla urbanism and bottom-up placemaking, through collaborative publications including Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (2010), Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking (2013), and City Unsilenced: Public Space and Urban Resistance in the Age of Shrinking Democracy (2017).

Experience

–present

Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle

Education

2001

University of California, Berkeley, PhD in Environmental Planning
1994

University of California, Berkeley, Master of Architecture
1993

University of Pennsylvania, Master of Landscape Architecture
1990

Cooper Union, Bachelor of Architecture