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July 2017
Extraordinary Playscapes: Family Fun Day
In conjunction with our Exhibit Extraordinary Playscapes we are inviting families to join us in a day of creative play. Read more
Built Environment Mayoral Candidates Forum
Seattle will have a new mayor next year, and the built environment of our city is under stress like never before. How do the candidates propose to accommodate the 3,125 new Seattleites who arrive each month while addressing the homelessness crisis? How do they hope to grow our city while preserving the quality of life for all residents? Join us for our quadrennial Built Environment Mayoral Candidates Forum to learn more about the candidates and their views on these and…
Small Firm Essentials: Four Ways to Maximize Profit
This highly interactive 4-hour workshop describes essential actions necessary to becoming more profitable – controlling scope creep, improving work processes, balancing staff skill with work types, and understanding how to figure out what to charge. Practical methods for addressing each of these issues will be introduced, including important risk management concepts and the use of key financial performance indicators. Ample time will be provided for knowledge exchange with colleagues and for interactive exercises designed to apply workshop concepts to each…
A City To Love: Visions of a Public Realm w/ Urban Design Forum
Seattle is comprised of 14,000 acres of rights-of-way, over 25% of our urban environment. How can we better leverage the potential of these spaces to make our city more livable as it rapidly grows denser? As Runstad Fellows, a group of built environment thought leaders, faculty from the UW College of Built Environment and students pursuing Master of Science in Real Estate traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to study how they more fully utilize their rights-of-way and the design, policy and governance strategies they’ve employed to do so. Join us for a presentation of their findings and what they might mean for Seattle. Read more
Density & Affordable Housing: Info Session on Seattle’s HALA/MHA and D/ADU Proposals
Seattle is moving forward with city-wide proposed zoning changes to increase density as a way to mitigate escalating housing costs and provide more affordable housing. What will this look like “on the ground”? As an architect, your informed opinion is important in the call for responses (by August 7) to the MHA Draft Environmental Impact Study. Read more
August 2017
Committee Meeting: Diversity Roundtable
The AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable meets every first Tuesday. Read more
Happy Hour with Young Architects Forum + Women in Design
The AIA Seattle Happy Hour Series is a monthly gathering presented by the Young Architects Forum and Women in Design committees to encourage connections within the Seattle design community. This year’s happy hours will highlight the role of chance in the design of each host firms’ project and practice. Read more
2017 Materials Matter – Just Do It: Strategies for Projects
Session 4 of the Materials Matter series, Just Do It: Strategies for Projects, presents frameworks for integrating knowledge of environmental and human health impacts from material substances into projects. It explores strategies at play when materials decisions are driven by clients, rating-systems, firms, and even individual initiative. Case studies share lessons learned from on the ground experiences, and speakers candidly discuss the different perspectives and motivators of project team members. Materials Matter is co-presented by Puget Sound Chapter CSI. Individual session…
Applying Nature’s Solutions to Building Design with Biomimicry w/ COTE
Are you among the majority of the design industry in that you’re interested in learning from nature to develop innovative design solutions but aren’t sure where to start? Join us to learn the real steps for how to apply biomimicry to building design. Read more
2017 AIA NWWA / AGC Scholarship Golf Tournament
Join the Northwest Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Associated General Contractors Northern District as we host the 2017 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
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
2017 Materials Matter – Beyond Transparency: Legality, Advocacy + Practice
Session 5 of the Material Matter series, Beyond Transparency: Legality, Advocacy + Practice, explores the intersection of the “why” and the “how.” Why pursue healthy material selection as a primary value? How does this value system get implemented in practice, and what are the challenges and risks? Exploring local social and environmental justice issues will help clarify the ‘bigger picture’ impacts that manufacturers, firm and client values have on human and environmental health. Unpacking the legal/contractual risks involved with material transparency…
CANCELED: Committee Meeting: Women In Design
Happy Summer! Instead of our regularly scheduled meeting, please join us on Saturday August 27 for a work party at Lease Crutcher Lewis, where we will assemble our Power Pose booth for the Seattle Design Festival. We could use a couple extra hands – let us know if you can make it: womenindesign@aiaseattle.temp312.kinsta.cloud
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
Seattle Design Festival 2017 – Block Party
The Seattle Design Festival Block Party is a two-day street fair celebrating the powerful ways design affects our lives. This fun outdoor event serves as the kickoff to the two-week Seattle Design Festival (September 9-22, 2017) and is an opportunity for the design community and the public to come together and interact through large-scale design installations, performances, and design activities all centered around the Festival’s 2017 theme, Design POWER. The installations are designed to be enjoyed by people of all ages, sizes,…
Seattle Design Festival 2017 – Block Party
The Seattle Design Festival Block Party is a two-day street fair celebrating the powerful ways design affects our lives. This fun outdoor event serves as the kickoff to the two-week Seattle Design Festival (September 9-22, 2017) and is an opportunity for the design community and the public to come together and interact through large-scale design installations, performances, and design activities all centered around the Festival’s 2017 theme, Design POWER. The installations are designed to be enjoyed by people of all ages, sizes,…
The Power of Community Engagement in Design of our Urban Fabric
The general public is concerned about population growth, transformation of our urban fabric, and community identity. There are questions about equity, access to affordable housing for families, access to adequate public transportation, and access to jobs. Sam Assefa, Director of Seattle’s Office of Planning & Community Development (OPCD), will discuss the City’s approach to neighborhood planning, issues of density, zoning, and land use, and impacts of the Housing Affordability & Livability Agenda (HALA) as recommendations are incorporated into neighborhood upzones across the city. The program will include a question and answer session where attendees can ask questions about issues that affect their neighborhoods and the communities in which they live and work. Read more
Seattle Design Festival 2017 – Design Discussion
The Seattle Design Festival Design Discussions are a series of curated interactive workshops, panel discussions and demonstrations exploring the POWER of design. These discussions will bring together technology design leaders, design educators, artists, activist and urbanists to examine how design thinking can amplify, inform and inspire POWERful change for individuals and humanity as a whole. Find out more about the Knowledge is POWER Design Discussion on the Design in Public website.
Happy Hour with Young Architects Forum + Women in Design
The AIA Seattle Happy Hour Series is a monthly gathering presented by the Young Architects Forum and Women in Design committees to encourage connections within the Seattle design community. This year’s happy hours will highlight the role of chance in the design of each host firms’ project and practice. Read more
Resilient Power: Adapting To Risk In A Changing Seattle
As a member of the global 100 Resilient Cities grant funded by the Rockefeller Center, Seattle is committed to becoming more resilient to the social, economic and physical challenges of our century. Individuals, business, communities & systems within a city designed with the capacity to survive, adapt and grow regardless of chronic stresses and acute shocks will empower regions to flourish. Read more
Enter the Fray: How Architects & Designers can be POWERful Advocates
Architects and designers are uniquely positioned to advocate for vital urban spaces and design elements that contribute to healthy, livable communities. They are also well-suited to work towards community consensus on controversial issues: they are good listeners, they work collaboratively in groups, they look at all ideas, and they are effective problem-solvers. But too often architects step back from involvement in public policy decision-making. Can architecture and design instead be viewed as lenses through which public problems can be solved?…
Seattle Design Festival 2017 – Design Discussion
The Seattle Design Festival Design Discussions are a series of curated interactive workshops, panel discussions and demonstrations exploring the POWER of design. These discussions will bring together technology design leaders, design educators, artists, activist and urbanists to examine how design thinking can amplify, inform and inspire POWERful change for individuals and humanity as a whole. Find out more about the emOWERing Commumnities Design Discussion on the Design in Public website.
2017 Honor Awards – Submissions Early Bird Deadline
Your viewpoint is more important than the photograph. Show us your thinking. Show us what is behind the marketing image; reveal the relationships and ideas that inform your design. Read more
AIA Seattle Laddership Summer Event
Join all Laddership groups at a Design Festival event on Thursday, September 21. Read more
Seattle Design Festival 2017 – Closing Party
Join us for an evening celebration to close out the two-week Seattle Design Festival (exploring POWER, September 9-22) and recognize the many people and organizations who make it possible. Featuring music, light fare, drinks, dancing, design and more. Presented by Design in Public, a strategic initiative of AIA Seattle, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects. $25 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds. RSVP here. Find out more about the festival on the Design in Public…
Ask an Architect: Navigating Your Building Project
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? Read more
2017 Honor Awards – Submissions Final Deadline
Your viewpoint is more important than the photograph. Show us your thinking. Show us what is behind the marketing image; reveal the relationships and ideas that inform your design. Read more
AIA Disaster Assistance Program Building Evaluator Training
AIA Disaster Assistance Program utilizes volunteers and mutual aid resources to provide professional engineers, architects and certified building inspectors to assist local governments by doing post-disaster building evaluations. The training program for Building Evaluators is currently managed by the California… Read more
October 2017
Women & The City: a networking event for women shaping Seattle
Join AIA Seattle Women in Design, WASLA, and the APA Women & Planning Division for an event about the women shaping our city! Read more
Reveal: High-Performance Energy Label w/ COTE
Join Vincent Martinez from Architecture 2030 and Jack Newman from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) to learn more about how ILFI’s Reveal energy label can provide third-party verification for meeting the 2030 Challenge Targets. Read more
Code Evolutions – Altered States: How Do Seattle Codes Impact Your Alteration Projects?
This session of our Code Evolutions series will examine the codes and regulations that apply to renovation and remodeling projects. Session topics will include rules governing alterations to conditions such as egress; fire separations; structural, mechanical and lighting systems; and more. The Seattle code “substantial alterations” concept will be reviewed in depth. Read more
Happy Hour with Young Architects Forum + Women in Design
The AIA Seattle Happy Hour Series is a monthly gathering presented by the Young Architects Forum and Women in Design committees to encourage connections within the Seattle design community. This year’s happy hours will highlight the role of chance in the design of each host firms projects and practice. Read more
UPDATED: Urban Design Forum 2018 Brainstorm
How are the region and the city urbanizing? How should they be? Who is moving into the city? Who is being displaced? Can gentrification be inclusive and equitable? How is technology transforming mobility? How is city housing policy manipulating the private market? When will Seattle build out a decent bike network? Read more
Tour of the new Burke Museum w/ YAF
Join AIA Seattle Young Architect Forum on a tour of the new Burke Museum! Read more
Ask An Architect: Navigating Your Building Project
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? Read more
