As healthcare facilities work toward a more sustainable future, the adoption of clean energy and resilient design presents both opportunities and challenges. Sustainable Horizons: Advancing Healthcare Design for a Greener Future will explore how healthcare systems can integrate sustainability while balancing operational demands, financial constraints, and regulatory requirements. Through expert insights and real-world case studies, we’ll examine the technologies, policies, and strategies driving greener, more efficient healthcare environments.

How do we move from vision to reality in shaping the future of housing? AIA Seattle’s 2025 Housing Design Forum, Transformative Housing: From Policy to Practice, will examine timely housing opportunities and explore how we can continue laying the groundwork for meaningful change and a future of abundant, high-quality, diverse, and sustainable housing options in Seattle and beyond. The forum will take a critical yet hopeful look at what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next for housing policy and design. Join us June 16 at 415 Westlake in Seattle.

A&R Wildland Urban Interface | May 6

Code Pioneer Square URM Tour + Social Hour | May 8

WiD Coffee Hour | May 13

SPARC Primer for AI in Architecture | May 15

AADU Ace Interviews | May 16

SPARC Methow Valley Architecture Tour | May 17

SIAF Making Through Technology | May 21

AIA Northwest Washington (NWW) serves our members in North Puget Sound, supporting and promoting the design profession through educational programs and other activities. Check here for their latest updates.

This Month in Advocacy:  City Council receives interim missing middle housing legislation to comply with state law HB 1110.

AIA Seattle joins pro housing voices for Comp Plan – sign up to testify at the next hearing, multiple dates still ahead and we are here to support you. Check out our FAQ + Facts Doc: Information to Address Misconceptions About the One Seattle Comprehensive Plan.

Behind the Vision is our new 2025 communication series to provide our AIA Seattle community with information about activities that steward our mission, vision, and values forward.

This edition: Advocacy in Action. AIA Seattle engages in advocacy in support of our vision for equitable, resilient, thriving communities. With member input, we develop informed, clear and consistent positions in line with our mission, vision, values, and strategic imperatives.

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the TV series America ByDesign: Architecture to feature projects awarded through AIA Seattle’s Honor Awards program!

The series—currently featured on-air on CBS and streaming on aia.org and YouTube—is an exciting opportunity to further celebrate our design community and showcase our Honor Award-winning projects from Washington State!

AIA Seattle remains steadfast in its commitment to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in the architecture community. We aim to nurture universal inclusion and fairness for the diverse communities our work impacts. This imperative continues to guide and challenge us as we evolve our practices. Now more than ever, AIA Seattle reaffirms our dedication to putting our JE:DI commitments into practice to promote a robust pipeline that reflects the diversity of our community and inform the policies, systems, and people that shape our built environment.

AIA Seattle offers on-demand learning opportunities to expand the impact and accessibility of our programs. We encourage our members to take advantage of quality on-demand learning through our partnership with aecKnowledge, AIAU, and other chapters’ programming such as this year’s Housing Forum, Housing: A Stage For Life. Learn more about this and other on-demand opportunities here. And check out all of the major in-person, virtual continuing education programs and events we have on the schedule this year.