Allied Organization Award

AIA Seattle annually recognizes an organization which is notably aligned with AIA Seattle’s mission and goals. By celebrating these contributions, AIA Seattle underscores the significance of interdisciplinary cooperation in shaping the future of the region’s architecture and design landscape.

Criteria

The Allied Organization Award honors aligned organizations that advance architecture, urbanism, and the built environment. Emphasizing collaboration and community initiatives, the award highlights impactful partnerships in areas such as sustainability, housing reform, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Recipients

2025: Friends of the Waterfront Park
2023: AIAS-UW with NOMAS UW
2022: Africatown Community Land Trust
2021: Sawhorse Revolution
2020: Housing Development Consortium

2019: Forterra
2018: Seattle’s Office of Sustainability & Environment
2017: 4Culture
2016: Historic Seattle
2014: Integrated Design Lab Seattle
2012: Preservation Green Lab
2011: Futurewise
2010: Pike Place Market Public Development Authority

2009: Sound Transit
2008: Seattle Housing Authority
2007: Seattle Art Museum
2006: Port of Seattle
2005: ARCADE
2004: U.S. Green Building Council Cascadia Chapter
2003: University of Washington Press
2002: Environmental Works
2001: Plymouth Housing Group
2000: Downtown Seattle Association

1999: Sunset Magazine
1998: Seattle Design Commission
1997: The Seattle Times
1996: Pilchuck Glass School
1995: Allied Arts of Seattle
1994: Northwest Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies in Italy
1993: Society of Architectural Administrators