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January 2008





February


   
   
12 Honor Awards exhibition opening reception
14

Medical Design Forum The Future of Healthcare Design
10:00a-6:00p @ REI (222 Yale Ave)

15

 Medical Design Forum The Future of Healthcare Design
8:30a-4:00p @ REI (222 Yale Ave)
23

Saturday Seminar
Need an architect? AIA Seattle's Saturday Seminar can help answer this and other questions about what architects and clients can achieve together, and how to achieve the best value for an investment in the services available from professional architects.
9:30a-12:00p @ AIA Seattle (1911 1st Ave)
26

Is The World Getting Flat?
Many northwest architects are doing significant work nationally and abroad. How are northwest sensibilities relevant when working in other cultures and traditions? How are international sensibilities relevant when working in the northwest? AIA Seattle's Committtee on Design will address these questions during the next Design Salon, part of the Lost in Translation series. 2LUs
4-6pm @ AIA Seattle
26

COTE: Site Ecology
Join us for presentations and discussion of two projects that masterfully enhance their sites through restored site ecology and opportunities for public environmental education. 2LUs
4-6pm @ Mithun
27 Tour NW African American Museum with AIA Seattle
With expert guides from DKA, participants will tour and learn about the conversion of this historic building for its new use. 1.5 LUs/1.5 HSWs
For times follow the link above

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March


 6
 Submittal Deadline What Makes It GREEN? Top Ten Regional Green Awards 2008
Now in its tenth year, What Makes It GREEN? recognizes and celebrates the best green architecture and design in the Northwest and Pacific region.
 11 AIA Seattle/Northwest Home Open House Tour
We invite you to tour the Schleck & Delorme Residence by William Zimmerman Architects..
12:00-3:00p@ 4702 SW Findlay Street Seattle, WA 9813 FREE!
  
 19   Small Firm Management Series: Skill-Building for Small Firm Owners Register now!
Learn strategies for increasing productivity within this milieu of unpredictability, including case studies illustrating best practice models.
12:00-1:30p @ AIA Seattle,  $5 AIA Members/$20 Nonmembers  1.5 LUs
18 The World is NOT Flat Register now!
The case for regionalism: Is it a restrictive “local idiom” from which architecture must “liberate itself”, or is it a way of thinking, open to multiple expressions?
4:00-6:00p @ AIA Seattle,  $5 AIA Members/$20 Nonmembers  2 LUs
20 Reflections on the AIA Honor Awards: The role of ethics and aesthetics Register now!
2007 Honor Awards roundtable. Join the Practice and Ethics Committee and others to discuss the issues raised by the jurors and participants regarding the 2007 honor awards.
12:00 to 2:00 pm, FREE! 2 LU’s.
 21   WASLA+AIA Emerging Professionals Happy Hour Series 2008
5:30-7:00pm @ SiteWorkshop, Free
24 Urban Design Committee: What's up on the Viaduct
A discussion with Jim Freise and Ralph Habosh
4:00-6:00pm @ AIA Seattle, 0 LUs, FREE! no RSVP required
 26 Small Firm Management Series: Skill-Building for Small Firm Owners Register now!
Rena Klein, FAIA presents processes for business planning in small firms where the demands of daily practice often leave little time for planning.
12:00-1:30pm @ AIA Seattle, $5.00 AIA Members/$20.00 Nonmembers (per session)  2LUs
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April


6

AIA National Top 10 Green Awards Reception RSVP now!
Meet the jurors and view all the submittal boards for the AIA National 2008 Top Ten Green Awards
6-9pm @ UW, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall, FREE!

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Regeneration 2008 Sustainability Forum Register now!
Join us as we focus on the intersection of nature and technology and how they can work together to create outstanding sustainable design.
9 LUs / 9 HSW more info, including times and prices, available above.
 8  Regeneration 2008 Sustainability Forum Register now!
Join us as we focus on the intersection of nature and technology and how they can work together to create outstanding sustainable design. Includes building tours of local case-studies.
more info, including times and prices, available above.
18 AIA/WASLA HAPPY HOUR Series
Presented by Young Architects Forum
5:30pm-7:00pm @ Jones & Jones, Free
22 Connection, Clarity, Care: The Three Cs for Successful Presentations   Register now!
(Presented by Connie Petersen)
This class will focus on tips for preparing, delivering, and relating to your audience so that you will be successful.
12:00pm-2:00pm (Brown Bag) @ AIA Seattle, $5 Members $20 Non-members, 2LU
 
   
   
   
   

 

 

MAY

 6

Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Historic Architecture  FULL
Using case studies, learn how architects and their consultants can take advantage of the information stored within the building model, how to create a detailed model for quantification and costing, and better ways to use BIM in an historic context. 
3:00-5:00pm @ AIA Seattle.  2LUs.  $5 members, $20 non-members.  Register here after April 10. 
 7 IBC Code Class: Non-Residential Accessible Design FULL; second class available here
Learn to confidently design code-compliant facilities.  Includes extensive code review. 
8:30-11:30am @ One Union Square boardroom.  3LUs/3HSW.  $60 members, $90 non-members. 
 8 Rethinking Design: Detailing the Integrated Design Process FULL
This presentation explores how to execute integrated design, how to built-form synergies in a group setting, and how to address the 2030 Challenge in the process.  
Noon-2:00 @ AIA Seattle.  2LUs.  $5 members, $20 non-members; includes box lunch!
13 Bellevue City Hall Tour Register Now!
SRG Partnership designed this award-winning project by transforming a non-descript office building into a state-of-the-art civic structure for the city of Bellevue. The design artfully interweaves these highly functional concerns with generous and elegant public spaces that welcome citizens to participate in their government.
10:00-11:30a @ Bellevue City Hall.  1.5LUs.  $5 members, $20 non-members.  
13  Bellevue Towers Tour  FULL
Bellevue Towers, a 1.2 million-square-foot mixed use development, is a joint venture of Portland-based GBD Architects and Bellevue-based MulvannyG2 Architecture. Through a wide range of innovative features, the project is proposed to reach a USGBC Gold rating for sustainable design and construction.
12:00-2pm @ Bellevue Towers.  1.5LUs.  $5 members, $20 non-members.  
15

Adaptive Reuse Lecture: Register Now!
Chicken Houses, Churches, and Change: Adaptive Re-use of Rural and Vernacular Buildings. Discover King County's innovative reuse of agricultural buildings.
4-6pm.  2LUs.  $5 members, $20 non-members.   
18 NW Home Tour: Rambler Redo
Come visit the home of Benjamin Liu and Frank Fuoco featured in the May issue of Northwest Home Magazine. Designed by Greg Bjarko of bjarko/serra architecture.
12:00p-3:00p @ 909 N. 101st Street in Greenwood, Free!
20 Housing Design: Whose Vision Counts?/ Lost in Translation Design Salon Register Now!
The creation of urban housing tackles many conflicting interests, with the results often unremarkable at best. Should commerce trump community? Does the market recognize and reward good design? What is good design and whose vision counts? Speakers include:  Ed Weinstein, Weinstein A+U; Jay Janette, Mithun; Sharon Coleman, Vulcan.
4:00-6:00pm.  @ Taste/SAM private dining room, 2LUs, $5members, $20 non-members
21

IBC Code Class: Non-Residential Accessible Design Register Now!  Due to high demand, AIA Seattle is offering a repeat of our May 7 class. Learn to confidently design code-compliant facilities.  Includes extensive code review. 
1:30p-4:30p @ REI,  3LUs/3HSW.  $60 members, $90 non-members. 

22 Adaptive Re-Use Lecture: Register Now!
Tour of the renovated Cadillac Hotel in Pioneer Square, and new home of th eKlondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.   
4-6pm @ Cadillac Hotel.  2LUs.  $5 members, $20 non-members.
29 Adaptive Re-Use Lecture: Register Now!
Adaptive re-use of East Kong Yick Building for the new Wing Luke Asian Museum. Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen presents the Wing Luke Museum, which recently finished raising the $23.2 million it needed to renovate its new home, the 1910-era East Kong Yick Building in the International District.
4-6pm.  2LUs.  $5 members, $20 non-members.   
31  AIA Seattle Honors Dinner Register Now!
Celebrate the achievements of new College of Fellows inductees, and recipients of the AIA Seattle Medal of Honor, Young Architect Award, and more. Festive attire.
6-10pm @ Palace Ballroom, $175/person

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JUNE

5 Design Throwdown
Presented by IDSA, co-presented by AIA Seattle.
6:00p @ Olympic Sculpture Park Pavilion, $10.00 AIA and IDSA members.
6

Is There Money Out There to Do That?: A Project Finance Toolkit for Architects and Developers Register Now!
This forum explores how to improve the economic viability of worthwhile, but seemingly financially unfeasible projects, by the use of innovative financing tools.
8:30a-5:00p @ REI Seattle, $160 members/$80 assoc. members/$30 students/$240 non-members,  8 LU / 4 HSW
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Saturday Seminar: How to Work With and Select an Architect Register Now!
Need an architect? AIA Seattle's Saturday Seminar can help answer this and other FAQs about what architects and clients can achieve together, and how to achieve the best value for an investment in the services available from professional architects.
9:30a-12:00p @ Rejuvenation (2910 1st Avenue S.), $15/person
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Tour: Weber Thompson Office Register Now!
Find out how designers utilized principles of sustainable design in the Terry Avenue Office Building, a 4-story, 40,000 square foot commercial structure located in South Lake Union.
12:00p-2:00p @ 225 Terry Ave N. Suite 200, $5 members/$25 non-members, 2 LUs
11 Biomimicry Lecture:Innovation Inspired by Nature Register Now!
Rose Tocke and a team of “biologists at the design table” will lead a journey of discovery through an evening lecture.
5:30-7:00p @ Seattle Public Library $5 AIA members/$10 ASLA & IDSA members/ $15 non-members, 1.5LUs
 12-13

Biomimicry Workshop  Register Now!
Hands-on activities to engage architects in biomimicry as a design methodology. The workshop will be led by the Biomimicry Guild, which consists of a networked team of design-savvy biologists who teach technical audiences an evolving methodology that incorporates nature’s design strategies into the design process. 
8:00a-5:00p @ Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center $260 members/$390 non-members, 13 LUs/13HSWs

   

 

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