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August 2021
2021 Honor Awards | Submissions Open
Reconnect and broaden conversations about resilience in design. On behalf of the Honor Awards Committee, we look forward to celebrating you in person with a renewed sense of urgency to undertake the grand social, environmental, and economic challenges we are facing. While this has been a difficult year, it has also been a time for reflection. Our evolving public health crises, continued critical reckonings with systemic racism, and rapidly changing environments are intrinsically linked. Yet we remain optimistic in the…
YAF: Coffee Talk – August 2021
Join AIA Seattle’s Young Architects Forum (YAF) for their latest program series, focused on adaptations to working-from-home for young professionals. Read more
Seattle Design Festival 2021 – Sneak Peek
Festival staff and organizers will provide an overview of this year’s festival—expanding on the key themes explored by our program partners. We will have t-shirts for your festival team screenprinting while supplies last! There will be a silkscreen station throughout the morning. Mix, mingle, and get excited for the 2021 Seattle Design Festival!
CANCELLED – Committee Meeting: Small Practice & Residential Committee
**AUGUST MEETING CANCELLED** Join AIA Seattle’s Small Practice and Residential Committee for their monthly meeting, open to all. Read more
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…
DATE CHANGE – Committee Meeting: Committee on the Environment
**AUGUST DATE CHANGE** Join AIA Seattle’s Committee on the Environment for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Tuesday. Open to AIA Seattle members and allied professions. Read more
CANCELLED – Committee Meeting: Young Architects Forum
**AUGUST MEETING CANCELLED** Join AIA Seattle’s Young Architects Forum for its monthly meeting, every fourth Tuesday at 5pm. Open to architects and allied professionals. Read more
CANCELLED – Committee Meeting: Women in Design
****AUGUST MEETING CANCELLED**** Join AIA Seattle’s Women In Design committee for their monthly social and planning meeting. Read more
Shaping Successful Submissions: Interactive Q&A Webinar
We encourage submitters to consider how the jury will interpret one or more considerations in connection to the project’s design story and explore: what makes this an award-winning project? From revealing discussion to the practicalities of completing the updated Common App for Design Excellence (for BUILT submissions), this Interactive Q&A Webinar will provide the insights you’ve been looking for. Join members of the Honor Awards Committee and the Integrated Design Lab online Thursday, August 26, 12:00-1:00pm PT and get support…
2021 AIA NWW / AGC Scholarship Golf Tournament
Join the Northwest Washington Section of the American Institute of Architects and the Associated General Contractors of Washington’s Northern District as we host the 2021 Scholarship Golf Tournament. This tournament has been created to help students in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction reach their goals through scholarships. Read more
September 2021
Neighborhoods for All: Expanding Housing Opportunity in Seattle’s Single Family Zones
Taught in collaboration with the Seattle Planning Commission and building on its Neighborhoods for All report, the courses are aimed at advancing progressive housing policy in Seattle. Students reviewed the city’s recent history of explosive growth and the resulting housing crisis, exacerbated by a racist legacy of single-family zoning that reserves 70% of residentially zoned land for single family homes. This has yielded a dichotomy of housing types in which Seattle has an outsized percentage of detached suburban homes and large…
Day of Dialogue: Design for Early Learning
Over four segments, this year’s Day of Dialogue will provide a forum for leading-edge thinking around the design of spaces for early learning, with a focus on the impact these spaces have on the child, educator, family and community. Where do our youngest children spend their days, and how can these spaces designed to foster children’s learning, health, social interaction and happiness? How can kids’ and families’ early learning experiences be made more equitable and inclusive? How can we include…
2021 Honor Awards | Early Bird Submission Deadline
Reconnect and broaden conversations about resilience in design. On behalf of the Honor Awards Committee, we look forward to celebrating you in person with a renewed sense of urgency to undertake the grand social, environmental, and economic challenges we are facing. While this has been a difficult year, it has also been a time for reflection. Our evolving public health crises, continued critical reckonings with systemic racism, and rapidly changing environments are intrinsically linked. Yet we remain optimistic in the…
Decoded | Multifamily Accessibility
This is the fourth session in the 2021 Decoded series presented by AIA Seattle’s Code Committee. Multifamily residential accessibility compliance is far more complicated than it first appears. With the overlapping of federal laws and building code, it can become confusing very quickly. This session will inform and educate multifamily residential architects, builders, and developers on the key differences in federal laws and building code as well as the how, why, where, and when to applying them. This course will…
Ask An Architect – September 2021
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
2021 Honor Awards | Final Submission Deadline
Reconnect and broaden conversations about resilience in design. On behalf of the Honor Awards Committee, we look forward to celebrating you in person with a renewed sense of urgency to undertake the grand social, environmental, and economic challenges we are facing. While this has been a difficult year, it has also been a time for reflection. Our evolving public health crises, continued critical reckonings with systemic racism, and rapidly changing environments are intrinsically linked. Yet we remain optimistic in the…
AADU: Career Ladder
Join AIA Seattle’s Asian American Designers Union for their first program, focused on career insights for Asian-Americans in the design professions. Read more
CAE: Mass Timber in Schools
The AIA Seattle Committee on Architecture for Education hosts an exploratory presentation and discussion of large-scale wood structures in recently completed regional schools. Read more
October 2021
AIA Northwest Washington 2021 Design Awards Live Event
Join us as we celebrate the best architectural designs available from the AIA members in Whatcom, Skagit, Island, and San Juan Counties. Read more
Culture Change in Practice: A Leadership Cohort – Session 3
This four-part, peer-based learning program was designed by a team of architects and allied professionals over the past nine months to specifically provide architecture and allied firms the tools and community to meet the explicit goals and metrics laid out in NOMA NW’s Call-to-Action. The third session of Culture Change in Practice: A Leadership Cohort is scheduled for Monday, October 4 October 11, 9:00am-12:00pm PT. Want to learn more? Visit Culture Change in Practice: A Leadership Cohort for additional program…
Calling Climate Advocates: King County Climate Advocacy Action
AIA Seattle’s 2020 Climate Advocacy Week, held in December, featured AIA member meetings with Seattle City Councilmembers to support the city’s strongest-in-Washington energy code update. That code was approved in February and is now effective for commercial and large multifamily buildings. In 2021, we’re continuing this effort as King County’s Council looks to approve its commercial energy code for unincorporated areas. King County’s proposed code is based closely on but not a copy of the Seattle update. We’ll be holding…
Seattle Housing Policy Update
Join AIA Seattle’s Public Policy Board for a review of current and proposed policies related to housing in Seattle. Confused by the annual Comp Plan vs. the Major Comp Plan? Wondering why there are duplexes and triplexes in the city but you can’t design one? Curious about how you can plug in to these debates? We’ll walk through the players and the proposals and get you ready for the critical debates ahead. We’ll cover these topics and more: Neighborhood Residential…
November 2021
AHC Fall 2021: Resiliency Through Physical Design
This year’s AIA AHC Fall Event includes two days of virtual interdisciplinary presentations, design case studies, and conversations continuing the theme of resiliency in design and construction, while maintaining our focus on emotional well-being and mental health for all occupants. How we can overcome obstacles and challenges inherent in wholistic and resilient design in healthcare environments? Read more
2021 Individual Awardees Celebration
Individual Awardees Celebration Monday, November 8 at Town Hall Seattle Each year, AIA Seattle recognizes leadership and achievement in design and the built environment through its honors program. Honorees are nominated by their peers and selected by the Fellows & Honors committee each spring. This year, we are delighted to recognize these recipients for their exceptional contributions to the profession and our community at the Individual Awardees Celebration on Monday, November 8 at Town Hall Seattle. Individual Awardees Celebration |…
2021 Honor Awards Live Event
HONOR AWARDS FOR WASHINGTON ARCHITECTURE LIVE EVENT Monday, November 8 at Town Hall Seattle The Honor Awards for Washington Architecture Live Event 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 for the design community to share and celebrate its achievements, both among practitioners and with the community at-large. The awarded projects will be announced for the first time on stage at the…
Committee Meeting: Mass Timber
Join AIA Seattle’s Mass Timber committee for its monthly meeting every second Tuesday at 4pm. Open to AIA Seattle members and allied professionals. Read more
WID + SPARC: What Am I Paying For?! The Value Proposition of Architectural Services
This is the third event in the 2021 Business of Architecture series presented by AIA Seattle’s Women In Design Committee in collaboration with the Small Practice and Residential Committee (SPARC). Read more
CANCELLED – Committee Meeting: Committee on the Environment
**THIS MONTH’S MEETING IS CANCELLED.** Join AIA Seattle’s Committee on the Environment for its monthly meeting, taking place every third Tuesday. Open to AIA Seattle members and allied professions. Read more
**NEW DATE** Committee Meeting: Urban Design Forum
**NEW DATE** Join AIA Seattle’s Urban Design Forum for its monthly planning meeting, every fourth Wednesday. Open to architects and allied professionals. Read more
WID: Feriton Spur Park Expansion Site Tour
Join AIA Seattle’s Women in Design committee for a guided, in-person tour of the new Feriton Spur Park expansion in Kirkland. Read more
IN-PERSON AND ONLINE – Committee Meeting: Seattle International Architecture Forum
**THIS MONTH’S MEETING IN-PERSON AND ONLINE** Join AIA Seattle’s Seattle International Architecture Forum for its monthly meeting, welcoming architects and allied professionals. Read more
NWW: New Building Envelope Solutions
Join AIA Northwest Washington Section for a half-day webinar focusing on thermally efficient envelopes for new construction and renovation projects to meet more stringent energy codes and human safety and welfare requirements. Read more
Decoded | Seattle Land Use Roundup
This is the fifth session in the 2021 Decoded series presented by AIA Seattle’s Code Committee. This course is meant to provide a framework for better understanding and using the Land Use code for projects in Seattle. Participants will learn how to navigate the Land Use Code and find relevant information for their projects. Participants will also learn about potential constraints and where Land Use Code overlaps with Building Code. Examples and a case study will be explored to help…
December 2021
CANCELLED – Committee Meeting: Committee on Architecture for Education
**CANCELLED** The Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) meets the first Wednesday of the month, from 4:30-5:30pm. AIA Seattle members, allied members, and sponsors are encouraged to join, as well as professionals in the design community. Read more
**NEW DATE** Committee Meeting: Women in Design
Join AIA Seattle’s Women In Design committee for their monthly social and planning meeting. Read more
CANCELLED – Committee Meeting: Asian American Designers Union
**DECEMBER MEETING CANCELLED** Join AIA Seattle’s Asian American Designers Union for their monthly meeting, taking place the first Friday of every month at 12pm. Read more
