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2025 Honor Awards | Submittals FAQs
Visit the 2025 Honor Awards page and download the 2025 Call for Submissions + Guidelines for details about requirements, submission categories, and submitter eligibility. If you still have questions, we hope this FAQ page will help! The final submission deadline is…
Get Excited for the 2025 Honor Awards!
AIA Seattle’s Honor Awards program is an important opportunity for the design community to share and celebrate its achievements both among practitioners and with the community at-large. Curious about getting involved or what’s to come? EXCITING UPDATES We’re Partnering…
Posted in Honor Awards
AIA Seattle Partners with America ByDesign!
The series—currently featured on-air on CBS and streaming on aia.org and YouTube—is an exciting opportunity to further celebrate our design community and showcase our Honor Award-winning projects from Washington State! America ByDesign: Architecture is a magazine-style half hour television program…
Posted in For the Public, Honor Awards
2025 AIA Seattle Parti Honorees
Honorees are nominated by their peers and selected by the Fellows & Honors Committee each year to acknowledge excellence and strengthen ties between architects and the many professions that partner with them to make a difference through design. Honorees will…
Posted in Fellows and Honors, Uncategorized
Reaffirming Our Commitment to Justice and Equity through Diversity and Inclusion (JE:DI)
We aim to nurture universal inclusion and fairness in the built environment and for the diverse communities our work impacts. This imperative continues to guide and challenge us as we evolve our practices. In recent weeks, executive orders have been…
Posted in JEDI
Register Now for the 2025 Building Code Series: Code Download
CODE DOWNLOAD SESSIONS Join us for four upcoming sessions to learn from Code experts: Session 1 | Code Download | Understanding Unreinforced Masonry (URM): Navigating Codes, Regulations, Cost and Incentives March 25-26, 2025 // ONLINE // 12:00PM – 2:00PM…
2024 Honor Award Winners
AIA Seattle hosted the 75th annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture on Monday, November 4th, at Town Hall Seattle to celebrate excellence in design. The distinguished jury included: Brian Philips FAIA (Interface Studio Architects) Kim Yao FAIA (Architecture Research Office) Maurice D.…
2024 Honor Awards | Submittals FAQs
Visit the 2024 Honor Awards page and download the 2024 Call for Submissions + Guidelines for details about requirements, submission categories, and submitter eligibility. If you still have questions, we hope this FAQ page will help! The final submission deadline is…
2024 Honor Awards
LIVE EVENT ON NOVEMBER 4 AT TOWN HALL SEATTLE The Honor Awards for Washington Architecture is AIA Seattle’s annual marquee program, drawing hundreds of attendees to a lecture-style event of unique rigor and breadth. This nationally-recognized program provides an…
AIA AHC Summer Happy Hour 2024 – Seattle
Join the Seattle AIA Architecture for Health Community to celebrate summer by coming together for a fun-filled networking event! Date: Thursday August 29th, 2024 Time: 4pm – 6pm Location: OAC Services – 2200 1st Ave S – Suite 200 –…
Posted in AHC, Architecture for Health Committee
AIA AHC Summer Happy Hour 2024 – Portland
Join the Seattle AIA Architecture for Health Community to celebrate summer by coming together for a fun-filled networking event! Date: Wednesday August 14th, 2024 Time: 4pm – 6pm Location: Migration Brewing – 2828 NE Glisan Street Portland, OR 97232
Posted in AHC, Architecture for Health Committee
Cancelled – Culture Change in Practice: A Leadership Cohort 2024
This workshop-based curriculum focuses on individual skill-building and implementation related to structural firm-wide and firm-level change. Participants will grow their capacity and responsiveness to lead justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts and engage in sustained action. Sessions will explore power…
AIA YAF + WID 2024 Happy Hour Series: Measure What Matters Hosts Line Up
AIA YAF + WID 2024 Happy Hour Series: Measure What Matters Happy Hour – check out the list of hosts! May – MG2 June – TBD July – NAC Architecture August – ZGF Sept – Integrus Oct – Fora Landscape…
Request for Proposals – Accessibility Evaluation Tool & Staff Training
In alignment with our JE:DI Imperative, AIA Seattle recognizes the need for a comprehensive Accessibility Evaluation Tool. This tool will aim to help AIA Seattle staff develop and deliver accessible and inclusive programs, encompassing both in-person and virtual events. Additionally,…
COHO | Nickelsville Kitchen Design Project
Image: Rendering of the structures COHO has designed and will build for the Nickelsville Northlake village. Imagine having an apartment or a home without a kitchen. For some, kitchens sound like a basic need, but for many they are a…
Posted in Committee on Homelessness
2024 Young Architects Award | Amanda Snelson AIA
Congratulations to AIA Seattle member Amanda Snelson AIA, for being a recipient of the AIA National 2024 Young Architects Award! With the heart of a mother and the spirit of an activist, Amanda Snelson AIA, treats architecture as an adaptable tool…
Posted in Fellows and Honors
2024 Fellowship Announcement
Pictured (left to right): Ann Marie Borys FAIA, Douglas Ito FAIA, J. Todd Scott FAIA, Jim Hanford FAIA, John Shoesmith FAIA, Kathrina Simonen FAIA, and Robert Misel FAIA. The fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have achieved…
Posted in Fellows and Honors
Updates from the Justice & Equity for Diversity & Inclusion Council
Who serves on the AIA Seattle JE:DI Council? Michele Hill AIA (co-chair) | AIA Seattle President Matthew Hagen AIA (co-chair) | Workshop 315 Whitney Lewis Assoc. AIA (emeritus chair) | GGLO Anna Leach AIA | Amazon Rania Qawasma | Koz…
Posted in JEDI, Racial Justice Working Group
Seattle COTE Blog
Climate Legislation Success Sees a Backlash By Nancy Henderson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C ArchEcology, Shift Zero Steering Committee Member Q2 2024 Climate advocates had great success in the last few legislative sessions in Olympia. Since 2020 there have been numerous…
Posted in Committee on the Environment
Committee on Homelessness letter to City of Seattle
AIA Seattle’s Committee on Homelessness (COHO) advocated for adding housing capacity, speeding up housing production and lessening code requirements in a letter addressing the City’s recent position put forward in the Amicus Curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the…
Register Now for Our Upcoming Code Mode Seminars
Join us for four upcoming seminars to learn from Code experts. Seminar 1 | Code Mode | Code Flexibility (Alternative Code Approaches) March 19-20, 2024 // ONLINE // 12:00PM – 2:00PM PT on both days // Class Credit: 4 LU/HSW…
2024 Call for Nominations AIA Seattle Board + College of Fellows
Board Nominations Would you or someone you know make a great AIA Seattle Board Member? To learn more about board service, see the Board Role Description. To apply, please fill out this form by February 7! Nominations received by this…
Posted in Fellows and Honors, Home Page
2023 Honor Award Winners
SEATTLE, November 6, 2023 – Last night, AIA Seattle hosted the 74th annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture to celebrate excellence in design. The distinguished jury included: Katie Ackerly AIA, LEED AP, CPHC (David Baker Architects) Steven Lewis FAIA, NOMAC, LEED…
2023 Call for AHC Board Members
· Architect member – Washington (5-year term) · Replacement Architect member – Washington (Completion of vacant position. 3yrs remain in term) · Affiliate member – Oregon (2-year term) Architect Board Member Jenny Cestnik and Affiliate Board Member Jerrod Kowalewski will…
Posted in AHC, Architecture for Health Committee
2023 Honor Awards | Submittals FAQs
Visit the 2023 Honor Awards page and download the 2023 Call for Submissions + Guidelines for details about requirements, submission categories, and submitter eligibility. If you still have questions, we hope this FAQ page will help! The final submission deadline…
2023 Honor Awards
LIVE EVENT ON NOVEMBER 6 AT TOWN HALL SEATTLE The Honor Awards for Washington Architecture is AIA Seattle’s annual marquee program, drawing hundreds of attendees to a lecture-style event of unique rigor and breadth. This nationally-recognized program provides an important opportunity…
AIA AHC Summer Happy Hour – Portland
Join the Seattle AIA Architecture for Health Community to celebrate summer by coming together for a fun-filled networking event! Date: Wednesday August 30th 2023 Time: 4pm – 6pm Location: Ecliptic Brewing – 825 North Cook Street Portland, OR 97227
Posted in Architecture for Health Committee
AIA AHC Summer Happy Hour – Seattle
Join the Seattle AIA Architecture for Health Community to celebrate summer by coming together for a fun-filled networking event! Date: August 29th, 2023 Time: 4pm – 6pm Location: Andersen Construction – 5601 6th Ave S Suite 550 Seattle, WA 98108
Posted in Architecture for Health Committee
Culture Change in Practice: A Leadership Cohort 2023
This four-part, peer-based learning program was designed by a team of architects and allied professionals as a response to racist violence, inequitable firm culture, and a segregated built environment. With the support of our facilitator, Dr. Anu Taranath, this program…
Call for Individual Award Nominations
Now is the time to reflect on individuals that have inspired you in your practice, that have made a tremendous impact on our communities, and have uplifted the values of a just and equitable world. We encourage you to nominate…
Posted in Fellows and Honors
Advocacy Update – April 2023
STATE NEWS 2023 Legislative Session We have reached the final weeks of the 105-day state legislative session. Tuesday, April 4, was the opposite house fiscal committee cut-off, where all bills that passed the House needed to be out of their…
Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board
Advocacy Update – February 2023
STATE NEWS State Legislative Session Update Washington’s State Legislature is back in person and moving through the long 105 day session at an effective pace. This year there have been well over 1,500 bills introduced so far. While the legislation…
Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board
2023 Fellowship Announcement
Bill LaPatra FAIA, LEED AP, is a design partner at Mithun with 40 years of experience leading higher education, civic, commercial, and corporate workplace projects. His diverse body of work includes the mixed-use Weyerhaeuser Headquarters in Seattle’s Pioneer Square; the…
Posted in Fellows and Honors
2023 Call for Nominations AIA Seattle Board + College of Fellows
Board Nominations Would you or someone you know make a great AIA Seattle Board Member? To learn more about board service, see the Board Role Description. To apply, please fill out this form by February 8! Student or Emerging Professional…
Posted in Fellows and Honors, Home Page
AIA SEATTLE ANNOUNCES 2022 HONOREES
Honorees are nominated by their peers and selected by the Fellows & Honors committee each spring. AIA Seattle is delighted to recognize these recipients for their exceptional contributions to the profession and our community. Please join us in congratulating the…
Posted in Fellows and Honors