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May 2018
What Shapes Seattle’s Affordable Housing?
Panelists: Jon Grant / Housing for All Coalition Joe Ferguson / Lake Union Partners Sharon Lee / Low Income Housing Institute Nick Welch / Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development Moderated by: Rick Mohler AIA / mohler + ghillino architects / university of washington Organized by: Committee on Homelessness / AIA Seattle An affordable housing week event
July 2018
Designing for Special Populations
The presentation will look at a variety of housing types such as homeless supportive housing, homeless shelters, housing for veterans, housing for people with traumatic brain injury, and more! Presenters Scott Starr, Principal | SMR Architects Scott Starr is an Architect and has been a partner at SMR Architects since 2010. He has worked with nonprofit housing providers such as DESC and Plymouth Housing on five major supportive housing projects as well as homeless shelters and service centers. Bill Singer…
October 2018
Decorative Metal Workshop: Hands-on metal fabrication
Metal experts from Decorative Metal Arts (DMA) will demonstrate and explain the technical aspects of steel and lead participants through a hands-on metal demonstration in this exclusive AIA Seattle Member Access event. Participants will leave the metal shop with a fabricated shelf and an elementary understanding of the work that goes into work by DMA. Read more
November 2018
CAE + DBIA Joint Presentation: How Does Design-Build Lead to Better Design Solutions?
How does design-build lead to better design solutions? Questions we will investigate during this program: What does the architect gain from design-build? How does the owner benefit? What factors really contribute most to success: Previous history together? Firm resumes? Individual resumes? What are the biggest obstacles/challenges from the architects perspective? How has the architect-owner relationship changed having the GC as the intermediary? Why don’t some owners embrace the benefits Design-Build? What are some of the best design examples delivered via Design-Build? What…
December 2018
Design/Build: Opportunity or Barrier?
Join us for this Joint AIA Seattle and SMPS Fellows Forum where Design/Build delivery will be discussed. How has the foundational shift affected your company, and what should you be doing? Is this the latest fad, or is it a long-lasting change? What are the particular impacts to marketing, business development, and client care? Read more
YAF + AIAS Happy Hour
AIAS’s national conference comes to Seattle, allowing our Young Architects Forum to partner with their annual holiday party. Read more
January 2019
Little House in the City: Designing Small Within City Limits
This presentation explores the design of small, urban houses and backyard ADUs as a smart response to two demographic trends: the shrinking size of households and the growing popularity of city living. Read more
Color My Home: An Architecture Workshop for Kids
Together we will remember, imagine, and create our homes with words, textures, and colorful illustrations. We’ll tell the story of the journey we take through spaces we call home. Please send RSVP to colorofmyhome@gmail.com. This event is held in conjunction with Sanctuary: Design for Belonging, on display @ the Center through February 23, 2019.
February 2019
Committee Meeting: COTE – DATE CHANGE
AIA Seattle members, allied members, and sponsors are encouraged to join, as well as professionals in the design community. Click for more information about the Committee on the Environment (COTE) and to sign up for their email updates.
March 2019
Path to Fellowship
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? Read more
DATE & LOCATION CHANGE: Committee Meeting: COTE
**DATE & LOCATION CHANGE** SEE SIDEBAR AIA Seattle members, allied members, and sponsors are encouraged to join, as well as professionals in the design community. Click for more information about the Committee on the Environment (COTE) and to sign up for their email updates.
June 2019
Pride in Architecture: Invisible Stories
CallisonRTKL Presents Pride in Architecture: Invisible Stories. Happy hour catered by local LGBTQ+-owned, Marination. PANEL MODERATOR: Fred Swanson Executive Director of Gay City Seattle PANELISTS: John Walton Design Director, WeWork Jeff Pelletier Principal and Owner, Board & Vellum Lucy Baraquio Vice President and Seattle Office Director, CallisonRTKL Seats are limited, please RSVP by Wednesday, June 26
August 2019
Seattle Design Festival Capitol Hill Design Crawl
Design professionals, residents, business owners, and community groups are all invited to activate and celebrate neighborhood identity through a series of design-related events. Capitol Hill will be August 17th, 9am-10pm, and includes a tour, a film screening, several panel discussions, a charette, a book signing and an exhibit. Our Neighborhood Hubs will engage festival visitors in the act of design via interactive activities and function as waypoints along the crawl. Schemata Workshop is our scavenger hunt touch-down and Northwest Film Forum will host The Consumer…
2019 Seattle Design Festival – Microsoft Design Discussion
In this Panel, we will explore how, as a company, Microsoft has been working on envisioning and implementing new ways for human beings to achieve balance with both Nature and Technology. In this panel we will share our philosophy for our new campus where both humans and nature will be successful in exciting new ways. We will also share our thinking of achieving balance for Mixed Reality and how virtual space and physical space are being created together with the…
Seattle Design Festival Georgetown Design Crawl
Design professionals, residents, business owners, and community groups are all invited to activate and celebrate neighborhood identity through a series of design-related events. Join us at the Design Crawl Hubs of Equinox Studios and Ten Penny Studio where we will engage festival visitors in the act of design via interactive activities and function as waypoints along the crawl. DJ Natural Selection will be playing a set at the Equinox Studio hub, so come ready to dance! Check out his music here. TenPenny will host an event…
2019 Seattle Design Festival – Gensler Design Discussion
This discussion will explore how designers can support holistic and systemic solutions that address barriers to equity in the community. We will examine a collection of case studies from local design teams, neighborhood coalitions and city policy makers that seek to implement place-based solutions. Following the presentations we will expand the conversation through a moderated Q&A emphasizing community-based design approaches to the development of public open space. Joel Fariss (Moderator) – Design Research, Strategy & Innovation, Gensler Lara Rose –…
March 2020
CALL-IN ONLY – Committee Meeting: COTE
March meeting is CALL-IN ONLY Read more
April 2020
ONLINE ONLY – Committee Meeting: COTE
**The April COTE meeting is call-in only.** Read more
May 2020
ONLINE – Committee Meeting: COTE
**May’s COTE meeting is online or call-in only.** Read more
June 2020
Virtual Housing Design Week
Several months ago when we began planning this year’s housing design forum, finding balance was on the minds of residential architects. Across the spectrum of residential project scales and budgets, what drives high quality design? How do we balance design inspiration and construction costs? How are residential architects innovating in their practices? Today, as we adapt our homes and businesses in the midst of a pandemic, finding balance seems an extra prescient theme. And perhaps home means something different now…
ONLINE – Committee Meeting: COTE
**The June COTE meeting is online only. Click for details.** Read more
Racial Justice Town Hall
Please join AIA Seattle, Diversity Roundtable, NOMA NW, Planning in Color, and University of Washington College of the Built Environment as we convene a series of action- and outcomes-oriented discussions about the role of architects and their peers pursuing racial justice. Read more
September 2020
Committee Meeting: COTE
Join AIA Seattle’s Committee on the Environment for their monthly meeting. All are welcome! Read more
October 2020
Establishing Meaningful Relationships with Communities You Serve
Why should architects and design professionals care about community engagement? How can our design and planning processes help create great places while repairing harm and building community? Establishing Meaningful Relationships with Communities You Serve will help you build the knowledge, resources, and skill-sets to form more authentic relationships and coalitions with community, and create not only beautiful, functional and successful buildings and spaces, but also transform our profession from one that works for community to one that works with. “Community…
May 2021
Just Transition: Upstream and Downstream Impacts of Decarbonization
AEC professionals are working on design and policy changes to rapidly eliminate carbon emissions from our built environment. What are the upstream and downstream impacts of these changes on jobs, housing affordability, health and communities? What additional considerations and voices should be brought into our decision-making processes? How can we push aggressively towards our climate goals while simultaneously supporting the call for justice and human rights that 2020 has reminded us to answer? Considering the transitions toward 1) the electrification…
Driving Equity Now | Just Transition: Upstream and Downstream Impacts of Decarbonization
AIA Seattle presents Just Transition: Upstream and Downstream Impacts of Decarbonization. Join us online, May 17-19, 2021 for AIA Seattle’s 2021 (Virtual) Climate Leadership Summit exploring the equity and social justice impacts of a transition to clean energy sources, materials, and processes. The Summit will conclude with keynote Carlton Eley’s presentation Driving Equity Now. Researchers and advocates; stewards of the built environment; and proponents for sustainability are coming to realize that finding creative ways to encourage equitable development does not…
June 2021
Housing Innovation in the 15-Minute City
How can we help transition housing policy and urban design to be 1) more equitable for all residents by incorporating people-centered development that responds to community needs and desires; and 2) focused on holistic sustainability by designing compact, complete neighborhoods that deemphasize car use and enhance environmental sustainability, resident health, and economic vibrancy? From missing middle to infill housing, new housing designs and careful planning around existing communities can provide the density to support amenities such as restaurants, services, work…
When It Takes You Two Hours And Three Buses To Get To The Grocery Store
It’s a privilege to be able to walk quickly or hop on a bike or a shared scooter. What may be an easy jaunt to an able-bodied, 20-something single dude can feel very different if you have a mobility disability, or if you’re blind, or if you have a kid or a grocery cart. It’s easy for privileged folks to support this vision of urbanism without addressing the profound disparities of race and wealth and disability that make a 15-minute…
People Centered Design in Smaller Cities: Rediscovering the Small-Town Roots of the 15-Minute City
Throughout most of American history, cities and towns were built incrementally, with a fine-grained diversity of adaptive places and built at the scale of people – much like the neighborhoods envisioned today in “15-minute cities.” But recent decades have been different, encouraging large, homogeneous developments built all at once to a finished static state, optimized for the scale of the personal motor vehicle. Looking back on this “suburban experiment,” we have witnessed its detrimental effects on our health, our social…
Equity Considerations in the 15-Minute City
In line with its comprehensive plan, Seattle has focused most of its job and housing growth into roughly 30 “Urban Villages” and “Urban Centers” over the past 25 years. While the Urban Village growth strategy has increased density and walkability in these areas and organized an increasingly connected transit network, it has also contributed to displacement in these areas of focused growth while contributing to skyrocketing housing costs and inadequately addressing the large swaths of Seattle that remain auto dependent.…
City of Seattle Candidate Forums on the Built Environment
Seattle’s built environment – homes, buildings, streets and sidewalks, public spaces, parks, zoning, transportation options and more – provides the infrastructure for how we live our lives in the city. Our built environment impacts our health, our quality of life, and our ability to make homes, connections, and contributions to jobs and community organizations. These forums are presented by a coalition of Seattle’s built environment practitioners and are designed to give you an overview of the candidate’s positions on housing…
August 2021
2021 Seattle Design Festival
As the summer of 2021 is coming into focus we are excited to move into this Festival season with optimism and hope. With this year’s Seattle Design Festival theme EMERGE, we invite participants to explore the opportunities of adaptation and change as we move forward with what we’ve learned from 2020. Join us in South Lake Union August 21 & 22 for a weekend of innovation and design! See the full festival schedule of Built Installations & Pop-up Experiences here, and…
April 2022
Practicing Equity and Advocacy in Rapid Decarbonization
In the urgent call to respond to our climate crisis, we must recognize that decarbonization is directly connected to health, safety, and equity. AEC professionals are working on design and policy changes to rapidly eliminate carbon emissions from our built environment. But what barriers prevent us from taking leaps towards rapid decarbonization, despite this necessity? What responsibilities do architects have as advocates? And how do we ensure our processes support equitable and resilient communities? Through exploring 1) the health impacts…
Power + Place – Keynote with Bryan Lee Jr. | Practicing Equity and Advocacy in Rapid Decarbonization
Join us online, April 25-26, 2022 for AIA Seattle’s 2022 (Virtual) Climate Leadership Summit: Practicing Equity and Advocacy in Rapid Decarbonization. The Summit will kick-off with keynote Bryan Lee Jr.’s presentation Power + Place. Our values are validated through the spaces and places we design and subsequently build. Power + Place explores the privilege and power structures that have defined injustice in the built environment from America’s inception. We will look at the history of the design justice movement and…
May 2022
Seattle Design Festival Proposals – Due
In a world that is increasingly experiencing disconnection, how can design affirm and strengthen critical connections within our community? This year’s Seattle Design Festival, August 20-26, will kick off with the SDF Block Party at Lake Union Park and feature in-person and virtual experiences throughout the week. Our Call for Proposals has officially launched – due May 23. More information can be found on the festival website. Review our call for proposals and learn more about our Festival goals and the different ways…
December 2022
AIA Seattle Office Closed December 23 – January 2
Happy Holidays – we will see you in the new year! Read more
