Would you or someone you know make a great AIA Seattle Board Member?  AIA Seattle is the strongest professional organization impacting the region where we live and work. Be part of shaping the future of architecture and design in Seattle and beyond and engage in community and professional impact. Your nominations are critical to our chapter’s ability to recognize and encourage design leadership and diversity across the breadth of our profession. Learn more here and nominate yourself or a peer today!

As we launch into 2025, we look forward to continuing to foster impactful engagement, lifelong learning, and meaningful connection in support of our vision for equitable, resilient, and thriving communities. AIA Seattle is proud to continue to deliver critical education programs and celebratory events that align with our Mission, Vision, Values, & Imperatives – stay tuned 6-8 weeks ahead of each program for more info. We will also continue to keep AIA Seattle members and the SDF community informed about the future of our strategic work and our location. Stay tuned!

Thank you for being a valued member of the AIA Seattle community! 2024 was a year of impactful engagement. Members embraced leadership opportunities to impact the future of the profession and bring together our AEC community. Members brought forward their highest quality individual and team work, confirmed by the significant number of Fellows and projects honored in 2024. And the collective voice of our members drove advocacy efforts to increase all types of housing, an urgent need for communities in our ten-county chapter.

COTE’s Book Talk – Blue Architecture: Water, Design and Environmental Futures | January 21

COHO’s Proposition 1A and 1B – How to Fund the Seattle Social Developer | February 5

YAF’s Licensing Workshops – Call for Host Firms | Deadline February 10

Look to our events calendar for committee meetings and other upcoming events.

AIA Seattle offers on-demand learning opportunities to expand the impact and accessibility of our programs. We encourage our members to take advantage of quality on-demand learning through our partnership with aecKnowledge, AIAU, and other chapters’ programming such as this year’s Housing Forum, Housing: A Stage For Life. Learn more about this and other on-demand opportunities here. And check out all of the major in-person, virtual continuing education programs and events we have on the schedule this year.

This Month in Advocacy: AIA Seattle brings together and advocates for a community of professionals across ten counties who are united not only in profession, but in purpose, through our vision for equitable, resilient, thriving communities. Now is a great time to focus on our local community in Washington – more info on the latest opportunities here!

AIA Northwest Washington (NWW) serves our members in North Puget Sound, supporting and promoting the design profession through educational programs and other activities. Check here for their latest updates.

AIA Seattle believes our world needs the visionary and integrative thinking of architects and designers, and that design solutions can positively impact our communities. Guided by our values of excellence, advocacy, integrity, equity, stewardship, and collaboration, we prepare our profession to lead, and deploy design to make a difference, so that we are all able to do our best work in a culture of design that fosters equitable, resilient, thriving communities. Read about the planning process, member feedback and our mission, vision, values in our strategic plan.