WHY HIRE AN ARCHITECT?
Whether you’re dreaming of a new home or planning a complex commercial development, the key to ensuring that your vision becomes reality is the same: Involve an architect early.

Architecture involves much more than buildings. Architects take your vision and give it form, explore its possibilities, raise it to new levels, and then integrate it into your building site and the community at large. They bring not only design, but solutions. For example, buildings currently account for over 40 percent of energy conservation in the U.S. Architects, using sustainable design practices, can help negate these effects. In fact, AIA members, through their Institute, have committed to making all new and renovated buildings carbon neutral by 2030. 

So tap the knowledge, efficiency, environmental awareness, and brilliant design that architects bring to any project. The sooner you bring an architect on board, the more fully your vision can be realized - even exceeding your own expectations.

AIA SEATTLE'S "ASK AN ARCHITECT" PROGRAM

LINKS
How Design Works
Understanding AIA Designations
Residential Architecture Terms

LOCAL RESOURCES
Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Washington Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects
American Society of Interior Designers Washington Chapter
Built Green

OTHER GREAT RESOURCES
From AIA New Hampshire
From AIA New Jersey
From AIA Wisconsin