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Designers 4 Haiti
There are three immediate needs in Haiti: sustenance, health, and shelter. We can help with one of them.
Following the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 that struck just outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Seattle design community came together to see how we as a group could assist in the disaster relief efforts. In early February the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable, the AIA Seattle Disaster Preparedness Committee and Architects Without Borders-Seattle, held a meeting of engineers and architects to launch an effort supporting long-term earthquake recovery in Haiti, focusing specifically on how we as designers can help.
Teams of architects and engineers are working with a well-established NGO in Haiti called Hands On Disaster Response, which is serving as a liaison between the government of Haiti and the volunteers. The volunteers in Haiti are working to assess the buildings left standing, with a strong emphasis on providing professional resources to building owners/residents. These safety assessments are the first step to getting fearful residents out of tents and temporary housing and back in their homes.
As a design community we are gathering funds to support Seattle based Architects and Engineers who are able to travel to Haiti to help. These members of the design community will work with Hands on Disaster Response, assisting with building assessment and other design based needs.
Donations accepted on this page will be held till the end of June when they will be handed over as a larger collection. Please donate today and join other members of the design community to bring shelter back to the displaced people of Haiti.
*Architects Without Borders is acting as a conduit for the funds going to Haiti. 100% of the Funds donated on this page will go directly to helping this cause.
Happy New Year from the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable!
The AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable attracts, retains and empowers individuals of underrepresented backgrounds in the profession of architecture through scholarship, community service and activism. We embrace and celebrate diversity in all its facets and strive to provide opportunities for an ever-greater diversity of individuals to become registered architects, take advantage of leadership opportunities and influence our practices and our professional lives.
Congratulations to the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable for being recognized by the national American Institute of Architects (AIA) as one of four honorees across the country as part of it the 2010 Diversity Recognition Program. This program recognizes architects and AIA Chapters that are actively committed to increasing diversity and inclusion within the architecture profession. You can view the awarded submission by AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable here.
On February 2, 2010, the
We do know that donations are what are most needed and our services as architects will be useful in the months to come. AIA Seattle together with Architects Without Borders – Seattle has created a fund to collect donations. Please consider making a donation and showing your support on behalf of the
The AIA Seattle is not a 501(c)3 organization and cannot accept charitable donations. Architects Without Borders [AWB] –
To make a donation please use the link below:
Questions? Contact AIA Seattle staff liasion to the Diversity Roundtable, Stephanie Pure at stephaniep@aiaseattle.org
CHAIR
Guido Seaones-Perla 206-355-9984
STAFF
Stephanie Pure 206-448-4938 x 103
MEETINGS
This committee will meet the first Tuesday of every month from 4-5:30PM, at AIA Seattle.
For current educational classes and other events related to this committee, visit our Calendar.
The AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable would like to congratulate Rico Quirindongo AIA of DKA for being selected as a 2009-2010 member of the AIA Seattle Board of Directors.
RECENT EVENTS
2009 SUMMER SOLSTICE/JUNETEENTH EVENT
Many thanks to all who participated in the 2009 Summer Solstice! Special thanks in particular to scholarship donors DKA, Rolluda Architects, Guido Perla Architects, Lisa Richmond, Dinesh Kumar, Douglas Jennings AIA, atelierjones, and Suehiro Architecture. Also, thanks to Fred and Mariana Quarnstrom, ZDS Architects, University of Washington Foundation, the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable, and restaurants Zaina and Tutta Bella.
Missed the event? Please consider supporting the scholarships by making a tax-deductible contribution via the UW Foundation Website—click the name of the fund you wish to support below:
Denice Johnson Hunt Endowed Fund
Marga Rose Hancock Endowed Scholarship for Diversity
Congratulations to Jennifer Richter, the 2009 winner of the Marga Rose Hancock Endowed Scholarship for Diversity. Awarded to a graduate architecture student in the University of Washington's College of Built Environments, the scholarship supports academically meritorious and financially needy students, with a preference for underrepresented minorities. Jennifer, a graduate student at the UW, plans to use the funds to study in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2008 Children's Gingerbread House Design Competition
Thank you to Diversity Roundtable members Guido Seoanes-Perla Assoc. AIA, Kim Fong AIA, Leon Holloway Assoc. AIA, Doug Jennings AIA, and to UW CAUP Assistant Dean Abby Crossen for organizing the 2008 Gingerbread Design Competition on December 13, 2008 featuring 30 students from Robert Frost Elementary School. Many thanks to of University of Washington College for Built Environments for hosting the event, to Robert Frost Elementary Principal Sue Anne Sullivan for her cooperation, and to Dion Kuhlka and Angela Khuon Abbott for volunteering."
Celebrating Women in Architecture
Thanks to the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable, the Association for Women in Architecture, Jan Gleason FAIA, University of Washington Capital Projects Office, the University of Washington College of Built Environments, Mithun, NOMA Northwest, Belt Collins, and everyone who participated and contributed to the Celebrating Women in Architecture event this week! Thanks to Suzanne Zahr Fleming AIA and Ashley Richardson of ZDS Architects for their hard work in producing the Women in Architecture slide presentation (download as pdf).
LINKS
AIA Seattle Diversity Scholarships at UW CAUP
NW NOMA: Northwest Chapter of the National Organization for Minority Architects
Noted black architect and educator Max Bond Jr. FAIA died at 73 on Feb. 18
A brief history
Beginning in 1986, a group comprising David Fukui AIA, Johnpaul Jones FAIA, Tom Kubota AIA, Marga Rose Hancock Hon. AIA, and Mel Streeter AIA began meeting informally, usually over breakfast at Lowell's in the Market. By 1990, the group formalized as the AIA Seattle Minority Membership Committee, and grew to include Steve Arai AIA, Nancy Callery AIA, Keli Hagen Assoc AIA, Denice Hunt AIA, Donald King FAIA, Rena Klein FAIA, Teresa Rodriguez AIA, Sharon E. Sutton FAIA, and Jim Suehiro AIA – among others. The group organized itself around a commitment to bring diversity into the architecture profession. The effort of Roundtable members has made a sustained contribution to AIA Seattle leadership, with several Roundtable alumni/ae among AIA Seattle Presidents and Board members, to AIA Seattle programming through the annual Summer Solstice event, and to bringing youth from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds into the profession through K-12 activism and scholarship and other support for students at University of Washington College of Architecture and Planning. The Roundtable also has an ongoing influence in the AIA national Diversity agenda – including hosting the AIA national Diversity Conference in Seattle August 1997.
