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February 2015
3form LightArt Tour with YAF
This program will feature a shop tour and a hands-on making activity. If you have any interest in lighting design or working with resin, this tour is for you! Read more
April 2015
Construction Site Tour: 600 E Pike
The Young Architects Forum is excited to host a visit to a 250 unit mixed-use development construction site in Capitol Hill! Read more
July 2015
Tour of Nucor Steel
We are excited to promote the next installment in our Making and Materials Tour Series, a trip to Nucor Steel! Read more
AIA Seattle Urban Design Forum Presents: Talks on Parcelization
The scale of the built environment is the spatial manifestation of the scale of capital. Contemporary urban morphology expresses the economic conditions that produce it. Due to of economies of scale, buildings with larger footprints erase lot lines and fill whole blocks. The result is the erosion of the diverse, granular mixture of buildings that gives urban places their distinctive character. Urban designers are challenged to develop a different vision for the future of cities; these talks propose parcelization as a path to a more complex, adaptable and diverse urban…
September 2015
Tour of LightArt
Join YAF for the next installment of the Making and Materials Tour Series, a trip to LightArt! Space is limited, register today. Read more
Federal Center South Tour
AIA Seattle’s Young Architects Forum is hosting a tour of the GSA’s Federal Center South building designed and built by the design/build team of Sellen Construction and ZGF! The project involved a performance based contract in which 0.5% of the contract value was withheld until the project met energy use standards during its first year of operation. Join this tour to learn about the project’s water, material, and energy saving features from a member of the operations staff. If you have an interest in sustainable…
October 2015
Tour of Glassworks Architectural Glass Fabricators
Join YAF on a tour of Glassworks Fabricators. Register by September 25 – space is limited! Read more
Historic Resources Committee Presents Pacific- Ford McKay Building Presentation and Tour
Join Historic Resources Committee and hear an onsite by preservation architects from BOLA Architecture + PLanning about the Ford McKay and Pacific McKay buildings. Read more
December 2015
Tour of 12th Avenue Iron w/ Young Architects Forum
Young Architects Forum Presents Materials and Making Bonus Tour: 12th Avenue Iron Read more
February 2016
2016 Medical Design Forum: Urban Renewal and Integration – Day One
The 2016 Medical Design Forum will cover a broad array of topics in healthcare design and explore their impact on communities, especially through the urban lens. Read more
2016 Medical Design Forum: Urban Renewal and Integration – Day Two
The 2016 Medical Design Forum will cover a broad array of topics in healthcare design and explore their impact on communities, especially through the urban lens. Read more
Tour of Odegaard Undergraduate Library at UW w/ Young Architects Forum
Join YAF on a tour of Odegraad Undergraduate Library. Register by February 18 – space is limited! Read more
June 2016
Tour of King County Emergency Coordination Center w/ Disaster Preparedness & Response
King County’s Kent Pullen Regional Communications and Emergency Coordination Center is an essential facility designed to remain in operation during disaster recovery. It contains the King County Sheriff’s 911 Center and the County’s Office of Emergency Management, including the Emergency Operations Center. Completed in 2003, the center was designed by Hewitt Architects with Ross Drulis Cusenbery Architecture. During the tour we will learn about its resilient design features and how it would be used in a disaster scenario. We will also…
August 2016
Our Changing SLU: An Urban Walk & Talk (+ Happy Hour) w/UDF
Join the Urban Design Forum as Mark Hinshaw takes us on a walk through the ever-changing Denny Triangle and South Lake Union. Read more
January 2017
Kinects Tower Construction Tour with Young Architects Forum
Join the Young Architects Forum for a construction tour of the Kinects Tower, a 357-unit residential tower in the Denny Triangle by Andersen Construction and Bumgardner Architects. January 25, 2017 | 12:0o pm – 1:00 pm Kinects Tower | 1823 Minor Avenue Due to space constraints, registration is limited to 20 people. Registration is currently full, please join the wait list and you will be contacted if space becomes available. For more information on this member committee: Young Architects Forum.
Tour of Architect Karen Braitmayer’s Home w/ WID
Join Women In Design for a tour of Architect Karen Braitmayer FAIA’s home! Read more
March 2017
Mark Tower Tour w/ YAF
Join the Young Architects Forum for a construction tour of the Mark Tower! Read more
April 2017
Angle Lake Station: Environment in Motion – Project Tour
Tour of Angle Lake Light Rail Transit station with VIA Architecture. Angle Lake Station is the first station in the South 200th Link Extension for Sound Transit’s light rail system south of the SeaTac Airport Station. With a theme of “Environment in Motion”, the station is an embodiment of environmental and sustainability features. We will discuss sustainability, building systems, safety and security, delivery methods and how the station has affected development in the vicinity. Angle Lake Station is planned to…
August 2017
Tour of WSU Everett University Center w/ CAE
Join AIA Seattle Committee on Architecture for Education for a tour of WSU’s new University Center in Everett! Read more
Urbanist & AIA Urban Design Forum Walking Tour – Central Area Restructuring
Join The Urbanist and AIA Seattle’s Urban Design Forum for a visit to the changing structural landscape of Seattle’s historically African-American community, the Central Area. Read more
September 2017
Tour of the new Center for Wooden Boats Workshop w/ YAF
Join AIA Seattle’s Young Architects Forum on a tour of the new Center for Wooden Boats workshop! Read more
October 2017
Tour of the new Burke Museum w/ YAF
Join AIA Seattle Young Architect Forum on a tour of the new Burke Museum! Read more
January 2018
Tour of Maritime Building w/ YAF
Join AIA Seattle Young Architects Forum for the tour of Maritime Building! Read more
March 2018
Tour of Maritime Building w/ YAF
Join AIA Seattle Young Architects Forum for the tour of Maritime Building! Read more
April 2018
LEAN Healthcare Design and Construction Project Delivery w/ AHC
AHC’s Spring Conference is a series of presentations pertaining to LEAN methods for both design and construction. This day-long event begins with a session by NBBJ on healthcare design and planning using LEAN delivery methods. Read more
July 2018
Tour of 8th and Howell with Young Architects Forum
Join AIA Seattle Young Architects Forum for a tour of 8th and Howell! Read more
Downtown Parks Tour with Urban Design Forum
Come join Seattle Parks and Urban Design Forum on a sunny walk through Belltown and Denny Triangle to explore the past, present and future of this rapidly-developing area’s urban parks. Read more
August 2018
The New Nordic Museum: an Educational Tour
Join Representatives from Mithun, Kirtley-Cole, and the Nordic Museum as we explore the building design and curation through the lens of educational architecture. The AIA Seattle CAE committee is pleased to present this unique tour during the summer – please join us! RSVP Required. Read more
November 2018
Regulations and the Impact on the Healthcare Environment
In this session, we will discuss the regulatory process of building a cancer center including a pharmacy pursuant to the new USP 800 regulations due in December of 2019. This session will explain the processes of designing a multi-modality Clinic in a hospital setting. The session will explain the problems and successes of construction in an occupied building; sharing loading docks and elevators with hospital staff and vendors. As part of that we will discuss the safety planning of lifting…
January 2019
Women In Design – Raisbeck Aviation High School Building Tour
Co-located with the Museum of Flight, Raisbeck Aviation High School was conceived as a response to Highline Public School’s desire to provide student access to engineering professionals, its proximity to the aviation industry, and its education-al vision for hands-on project based learning. Completed in 2013, explore the school with current students and architect Caroline Lemay. See how the school is used and discover the path it took to make this project a reality. Address: 9229 E Marginal Way S, Tukwila,…
February 2019
Circum-ambience & the Art of Traditional Japanese Earthen Walls (Rescheduled due to weather)
MadArt Studio presents Circum·ambience by Taiji Miyasaka, a professor in the School of Design and Construction at Washington State University. In this exhibition, Miyasaka responds to the various conditions of MadArt Studio by creating three spherical sculptures that independently investigate the light, scale, and atmosphere of the physical space. Though bound by form, each sphere uniquely relates to the studio’s environment through their distinctive material and method of assembly. The largest of these sculptures – a thirteen-foot inhabitable clay and…
March 2019
Women In Design: Bullitt Center Tour – DATE CHANGE
Join AIA Seattle’s Women In Design committee to tour the landmark Bullitt Center, analyzing its impact several years out from its construction as one of the first “living buildings.” Read more
YAF: Ainsworth & Dunn Building Construction Tour
Join the Young Architects Forum for a tour of the latest adaptive reuse project from Weinstein AU, the historic Ainsworth & Dunn Building. Read more
YAF: Ainsworth & Dunn Building Construction Tour – SECOND TOUR ADDED
Join the Young Architects Forum for a tour of the latest adaptive reuse project from Weinstein AU, the historic Ainsworth & Dunn Building. Read more
April 2019
SPARC Home Tour #11: The Roost – Artist Live-Work Lofts
Join SPARC and Neiman Taber Architects for a tour of a multi-family/mixed-use project with 33 housing units & ground-floor commercial space. Read more
May 2019
YAF: Nexus Tower Construction Tour
Join AIA Seattle’s Young Architects Forum for a tour of the Nexus Tower, a new mixed-use retail and condominium tower in downtown Seattle. Read more
