May 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.
May 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.
May 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.
May 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.
May 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
May 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.
May 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
May 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.
June 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
June 10: 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
June 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
June 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; 8:00a-3:00p @ Carkeek Park Environmental Learning Center $260 members/$390 non-members, 13 LUs
