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September 2022
2022 Small Firm Series: Session 2
Join us ONLINE on Wednesday, September 7, 2022 for Session 2: Effective Strategies for Advancing Emerging Leaders and Transitioning Ownership of AIA Seattle’s 2022 Small Firm Series (4 AIA LU). How do firms succeed in transitioning ownership and leadership? When should firm leaders begin thinking about ownership transition, and what options are available to firm founders approaching retirement? How can successors truly leverage the knowledge and connections of the founder? Planning for leadership transition brings up many questions and few answers;…
October 2022
CANCELLED – Ask An Architect – October 2022
Dreaming about a home design project and not sure where to start? Wondering how to make the most of your budget? Curious about green design or how to plan for your family’s changing needs? Join two AIA architects to discuss your building project, no matter the stage. Read more
December 2022
Sole Practitioners Roundtable (SPRouT) Meeting
Solo Practitioners Roundtable (SPRout) is an opportunity for solo practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and resources. This group meets at noon on the first Thursday of the month. All are encouraged to join us, you do not need to be a member to attend. Read more
2022 Small Firm Series: Session 3
Join us ONLINE on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 for Session 3: Operations & Design: New Approaches to Old Ways of Working of AIA Seattle’s 2022 Small Firm Series (4 AIA LU). Business planning and professional development mean little without proper implementation. How will you structure your team for the greatest results? What bottlenecks are slowing down your design execution? How can adopting new ways of working transform your firm? This session will explore alternative ways of thinking about your day-to-day operations using…
Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
January 2023
Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
February 2023
Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
March 2023
CANCELLED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
SPARC’s Contemporary Residential Design Series – The Past and Future of Regional Design on Puget Sound
In this presentation, UW Professor Jeffrey Karl Ochsner FAIA will talk about the history of regionalism in Seattle architecture and will frame a discussion of what regionalist ideas have come to mean today. Read more
April 2023
Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
May 2023
SPARC: Methow Valley Architecture Tour
The Methow Valley Architecture Tour will celebrate the unique aspects of design and construction in this area of Washington, particularly regarding the climate, culture and natural beauty of the area. Learning objectives will emphasize climate resilience, human health and comfort and biophilic design. Read more
Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
June 2023
Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
July 2023
CANCELED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
August 2023
Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
September 2023
Code Reload | Beyond Single Family
Session 3 of the Code Reload series explore case studies for small scale residential development and commercial projects, looking at code implications when moving beyond single family residential. Read more
CANCELED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
SPARC Design Forum: Board Discussion on What Makes a Good Design
We will have a board discussion on what makes good design, four award winning architects with their own small firms will share their own design philosophy and also use their work sample to show how they apply it in their work. Hope this event as first of our design series to promote good design with small architecture firms Read more
October 2023
CANCELED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
SPARC: Introduction to Pretty Good House
The Pretty Good House is a recently published book intended as a guide to creating better homes. Also dubbed “the sensible building standard” this formula encourages responsible building practices customized to the individual projects & homeowners. This virtual session will provide an introduction to the Pretty Good House philosophy and ways single family residential projects can incorporate these principles affordably, efficiently and beautifully. Read more
November 2023
SPARC: Seattle Stormwater Code Compliance for Small Projects
A stormwater code training session for architects working on projects in Seattle that are too small to warrant a dedicated civil engineer. Read more
CANCELED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
January 2024
Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, featuring speaker Darren Chang who will present a comparative study of preservation ideologies in the West and East, with a Case Study on Hutong Preservation in Beijing . Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
February 2024
SPARC: Affordable, Passive House, Multifamily Project Tour
Dan Whitmore will be holding tours of the Passive House Apartment Building; a 12-unit, 3-story, single-stair, multi-family project in southeast Seattle. The project is pursuing PHIUS and Energy Star certification, and using that as the path for energy code compliance. It will also use several advanced mechanical systems, including CO2-based heat pumps. Additionally, it is going beyond Seattle’s mandated number of affordable units as its investors are accepting reduced profits in order to provide more quality, stable, neighborhood housing. WHEN:…
Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
March 2024
Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
April 2024
CANCELLED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
Tour: Chapel of St. Ignatius
Jerry Cobb, S.J., Ph.D. will give a tour of the Chapel of St. Ignatius on Seattle University’s campus. WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 2024 from 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM WHERE: 901 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 COST: $5 admission per person CREDIT: 1.0 CEH (non-HSW) COVID SAFETY/ACCESSIBILITY: AIA Seattle recommends masking as a demonstration of community care. Please stay home if you are experiencing cold or flu-like symptoms. The tour will take place on the ground floor, which is…
May 2024
Mass Timber + SPARC Committees – Kenmore CLT House – Construction Tour
Mass Timber Committee + Small Practice and Residential Committee (SPARC) + atelierjones Project Description: The Kenmore House is a 2-story, 3,200 square foot, 5-bedroom, multi-generational home for a family 7, including 4 children and one grandparent. Inspired by atelierjones’s first foray into mass timber, CLTHouse, this home is constructed of cross laminated timber. The exposed wood of the CLT wraps as a tactile shell around the living spaces which subsequently wrap around a warm south and west facing courtyard. Throughout…
CANCELED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
SPARC: Methow Valley Architecture Tour
The Methow Valley Architecture Tour will celebrate the unique aspects of design and construction in this area of Washington, particularly regarding the climate, culture and natural beauty of the area. Learning objectives will emphasize climate resilience, human health and comfort and biophilic design. Read more
June 2024
Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee – AI and You (Hybrid)
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
July 2024
CANCELED: Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
August 2024
Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
September 2024
Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
October 2024
Committee Meeting: Small Practice and Residential Committee
Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice & Residential Committee for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Thursday at 12pm. Open to architects and allied professionals, including members and non-members. Read more
