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AIA Seattle Announces the 2024 Fellows

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 Committees, Fellows and Honors

Updates from the Justice & Equity for Diversity & Inclusion Council

AIA Seattle JEDI 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

The COTE blog is a new resource we are offering. Here we will share news, ideas, and resources from the field. Our first blog post is an overview of actions the average homeowner and renter can take to live more

Posted in Committee on the Environment, Committees

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

Posted in Advocacy, Committee on Homelessness, Housing, Public Policy Board

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

Posted in Allied Professionals, Architects, Associates, Code, For the Profession, For the Public, Member Firms, Recent Graduates, Sponsors, Students

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

2023 Awards of Honor winners Collage

SEATTLE, November 6, 2023 – Last night, AIA Seattle hosted the 73rd 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

Posted in For the Profession, For the Public, Honor Awards

The AIA 2030 Commitment DDx refresher series this November!

What does the AIA 2030 Commitment Mean for Firm Culture? November 14, 1pm ET Speakers: David Arkin, AIA, Keith Hempel, FAIA, Ashley Mulhall, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, &Jesse Walton, AIA, LEED-AP CPHC From small sized firms to large firms that span

Posted in Committee on the Environment, Committees

2023 Call for AHC Board Members

White text on purple background: Architecture for Health Committee

·         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

Posted in For the Profession, For the Public, Honor Awards

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

Posted in For the Profession, For the Public, Honor Awards

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

Culture Change in Practice: a Leader Cohort

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

Posted in Allied Professionals, Architects, Associates, For the Profession, For the Public, Member Firms, Racial Justice Working Group, Uncategorized

Call for Individual Award Nominations

call for individual 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

March 2023 Advocacy Update

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

2023 Programming

As we look ahead to 2023, we are embracing three themes developed by our Board of Directors which inform our annual plan: Community, Connection, and Care. These themes are threaded throughout the year ahead of us in programming, committees, advocacy,

Posted in Committees, For the Profession

AIA SEATTLE ANNOUNCES 2022 HONOREES

Collage of 2022 Awardees

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

2022 Honor Award Winners

Collage of Honor Award 2022 Winners

SEATTLE, November 8, 2022 – Last night, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle hosted the 72nd annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture to celebrate excellence in design. The distinguished jury included Billie Faircloth FAIA, LEED AP BD+C (KieranTimberlake), Ghazal

Posted in For the Profession, For the Public, Honor Awards

2022 Honor Awards

  LIVE EVENT ON NOVEMBER 7 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

Posted in For the Profession, For the Public, Honor Awards

2022 Fellowship Announcement

Kjell Anderson FAIA

Kjell Anderson FAIA, LEED Fellow, practices architecture and serves as a Principal and the Director of Sustainable Design at LMN Architects, working with all of LMN’s clients to set and exceed sustainable design goals. He wrote the first architect-centered book

Posted in Fellows and Honors

Advocacy Update – February 2022

NATIONAL NEWS National Building Performance Standard Effort At the United States Conference of Mayors winter meeting in January, President Biden announced a new partnership with state and local governments to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment. Known as the

Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board

Advocacy Update – January 2022

STATE NEWS State Building Code Council Releases 2021 Commercial Energy Code The 2021 commercial energy code amendments have been released by the State Building Code Council; you can view the proposed rule here. Public comments can be emailed to sbcc@des.wa.gov

Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board

Advocacy Update – December 2021

STATE NEWS Washington’s Redistricting Process Ends Washington’s redistricting saga has ended, with the state Supreme Court declining to develop its own district maps and allowing the maps approved after the deadline by the state’s redistricting commission to take effect. You

Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board

Advocacy Update – November 2021

STATE NEWS Washington Redistricting Washington’s redistricting commission, charged with determining new state and Congressional legislative districts after the 2020 census, failed to meet its Nov. 15 deadline to agree on new district maps. The failure of the panel, made up

Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board

2021 Honor Award Winners

2021 Awards of Honor Fort Worden Building 305 and Loom House

SEATTLE, November 9, 2021 – The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle hosted the 71st annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture to celebrate excellence in design on November 9, 2021. The distinguished jury included Katherine Darnstadt AIA, NOMA, LEED AP (Latent

Posted in For the Profession, For the Public, Honor Awards

AIA Seattle DRT + Sawhorse Revolution Collaboration

Danny Woo Garden Shed and Volunteers

AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable (DRT) committee attracts, retains, and empowers individuals of underrepresented backgrounds in the profession of architecture through scholarship, community service, and activism. Sawhorse Revolution is a non-profit that teams professional carpenters and architects with high-school-aged youth to

Posted in Diversity Roundtable

Advocacy Update – October 2021

STATE NEWS Washington’s Tax System Overhaul Committee Would Like Your Feedback Are you fed up with Washington’s tax system? This is your opportunity to let legislators know what you’d like to see instead. The state’s Tax Structure Work Group, led

Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board

Advocacy Update – September 2021

September advocacy update image

STATE NEWS Washington’s Tax System Overhaul Under Discussion Washington has a multi-year Tax Structure Work Group led by a bipartisan group of legislators and charged with researching, evaluating, and conducting public outreach around developing a new state taxation system that

Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board

Housing Advocacy: Neighborhood Residential

Legislation to rename Seattle’s single family zoning category from “Single Family” to “Neighborhood Residential” will be voted on at a Sept. 24th Land Use & Neighborhoods City Council Committee meeting. This legislation does not make actual changes to the existing

Posted in Advocacy, Housing, Public Policy Board

Career Ladder Webinar

Asian American Designers Union (AADU) is a committee that was established under AIA Seattle earlier this year. Conceived as a support system that connects, empowers, and advocates for Asian American designers here in the Seattle area, AADU assists in promoting

Posted in Asian American Design Union, Uncategorized

Advocacy Update – August 2021

LOCAL NEWS 2020 MHA Report Released Seattle’s Office of Housing released its first annual report on the city’s Mandatory Housing Affordability and Incentive Zoning program, including long-anticipated data on housing projects’ use of payment versus performance under the program. While

Posted in Advocacy, Public Policy Board

2021 Honor Awards

AIA Seattle’s Honor Awards for Washington Architecture is a nationally-recognized program that explores and honors projects designed by architects throughout the state of Washington. This annual program provides an important opportunity for the design community to share and celebrate its

Posted in For the Profession, Honor Awards, Uncategorized