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Episode Synopsis
Feliks Banel's guest on this BONUS EPISODE of CASCADE OF HISTORY is Elisa Renouard, Lecturer at the University of Washington Architecture Department and Associate at Olson Kundig Architects in Seattle.
After hearing about our conversation earlier this week with landscape architect Laurie Olin – where Mr. Olin described an assignment he did as a student at the University of Washington 65 years and which he assumed was lost to the mists of time - Ms. Renouard shared a copy of Mr. Olin’s work from the UW archives (parts of which have been posted at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page). There’s a lot to discuss about that assignment, and about the work Elisa Renouard is doing now with her students to explore and re-create parts of Seattle that were wiped off the map decades ago – as part of a recurring student exhibit called “CITY ERASED.”
I spoke with Elisa Renouard on Thursday, December 4, 2025.
For more information about Elisa Renouard:
https://arch.be.uw.edu/people/elisa-renouard/
For more information about the "CITY ERASED" project:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLnDJBbJirQ/
To hear the BONUS EPISODE with Laurie Olin:
https://soundcloud.com/cascadeofhistory/bonus-episode-laurie-olin
To see Laurie Olin's 1960 UW study of the Kalmar Hotel:
https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/archps/id/1544/rec/8
CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via flagship station SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms’ quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.
Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.
After hearing about our conversation earlier this week with landscape architect Laurie Olin – where Mr. Olin described an assignment he did as a student at the University of Washington 65 years and which he assumed was lost to the mists of time - Ms. Renouard shared a copy of Mr. Olin’s work from the UW archives (parts of which have been posted at the CASCADE OF HISTORY Facebook page). There’s a lot to discuss about that assignment, and about the work Elisa Renouard is doing now with her students to explore and re-create parts of Seattle that were wiped off the map decades ago – as part of a recurring student exhibit called “CITY ERASED.”
I spoke with Elisa Renouard on Thursday, December 4, 2025.
For more information about Elisa Renouard:
https://arch.be.uw.edu/people/elisa-renouard/
For more information about the "CITY ERASED" project:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLnDJBbJirQ/
To hear the BONUS EPISODE with Laurie Olin:
https://soundcloud.com/cascadeofhistory/bonus-episode-laurie-olin
To see Laurie Olin's 1960 UW study of the Kalmar Hotel:
https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/archps/id/1544/rec/8
CASCADE OF HISTORY is broadcast LIVE most Sunday nights at 8pm Pacific Time via flagship station SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle and gallantly streams everywhere via www.space101fm.org. The radio station broadcasts from studios at historic Magnuson Park – located in the former Master-at-Arms’ quarters in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station - on the shores of Lake Washington in Seattle.
Subscribe to the CASCADE OF HISTORY podcast via most podcast platforms and never miss regular weekly episodes of Sunday night broadcasts as well as frequent bonus episodes.
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