Are you a seasoned professional who is considering applying for AIA Fellowship? Or are you an emerging professional who’s curious about steps you can take now to make a future application more competitive? Join a panel of local FAIAs March 6 to learn more about the College of Fellows eligibility and submittal process, our chapter’s coaching and endorsement of candidates, and tricks and tools you can employ now to tell your own professional story. We’ll also cover tips and tricks for those individuals presently assembling materials for their Fellowship applications.

YAF’s Licensing Workshop Series Kickoff | February 19

ALC’s Why Organize? A Discussion with Architectural Workers United | March 3

Mass Timber’s Portland Happy Hour | March 25

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

The AIA Seattle Adaptation & Resilience Committee is hosting an in-person, eight-hour training on post-disaster building safety evaluation procedures and WAsafe, Washington State’s program for post-disaster volunteer responders. This program is a must for engineers, architects & building officials committed to using their unique professional skills to assist following a catastrophic event. Light breakfast, lunch and optional happy hour included. 8 LU/HSWs. WAsafe Training has sold out, but you can sign up for the waitlist. 

This Month in Advocacy: Welcome Nathan, AIA Seattle’s new Advocacy Manager; Seattle’s Comp Plan Pro-Housing voices urgently needed; eliminating parking mandates with SB 5184 boost housing production; and join COHO for their Social Housing Prop 1A + 1B event – 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.

Join AIA NWW for their Mount Vernon Library Commons: Tour and Lessons from a Publicly Bid Passive House Project | March 27

Behind the Vision is our new 2025 communication series to provide our AIA Seattle community with information about activities that steward our mission, vision, and values forward. First up – we share what’s behind our mission, vision and values driven move to a new space when the lease expires at the Center in October 2025. We are incredibly appreciative of the two taskforces, many members, and the board who have thoughtfully informed these decisions the last few years and are currently working to find AIA Seattle + SDF’s next home.

AIA Seattle remains steadfast in its commitment to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in the architecture community. We aim to nurture universal inclusion and fairness for the diverse communities our work impacts. This imperative continues to guide and challenge us as we evolve our practices. Now more than ever, AIA Seattle reaffirms our dedication to putting our JE:DI commitments into practice to promote a robust pipeline that reflects the diversity of our community and inform the policies, systems, and people that shape our built environment.

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.