* To reserve lodging in the AIA Seattle block at the Tremont Hotel (single or double @ $159/night), call 888-627-8281 (early reservations strongly encouraged). A short walk from the Tremont, along Michigan Avenue's succession of design scenes, will take you to a stop for AIA Convention shuttles to McCormick Place and other Convention event venues.

* Plan to join your home-town colleagues, including home-grown celebrities receiving AIA national honors this year (see below) for the AIA Seattle Dinner Friday night at 312 Chicago, commencing with a no-host bar at 6:30pm. Click below to reserve (by June 4, please) @ $90/person, which includes a full-course meal with your choice of entrees, and wine with dinner.

* If you'd care to join the AIA Seattle Procession, plan to meet AIA Seattle President Kristen M. Scott AIA and 1st VP Peter David Greaves AIA Friday at 5:45pm at McCormick Place to join the AIA Seattle crowd in a festive, healthful, and architecturally rich procession departing from McCormick Place and arriving at 312 Chicago in time for a toast or two before dinner.

* Dine and celebrate with AIA Seattle-based recipients of national honors:
• Recipients of AIA 2004 national Honor Awards for Architecture:
. Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
. NBBJ
• AIA Seattle nominees advanced to the AIA College of Fellows
. Karen Braitmayer FAIA
. Bill Karst FAIA
. Tom Kundig FAIA
. Sheri Olson FAIA
. Norman Strong FAIA
• AIA Top Ten Green Award
. The Miller|Hull Partnership
• AIA Emerging Professionals Mentorship Award
… Grace H. Kim AIA
• Other esteemed colleagues/honorees

Other relevant references:
* AIA Convention program, schedule and registration
* AIA action: preview of business items and candidates to come before the membership at the AIA Annual Business Meeting at Chicago; review AIA Delegate Information
* Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"
* AIA Seattle Dinner attendee list