Each year, AIA Seattle celebrates leadership and achievement in design and the built environment at the local and national level through its member awards program, PARTI. Honorees are nominated by their peers and selected by the Fellows & Honors Committee each year to acknowledge excellence and strengthen ties between architects and the many professions that partner with them to make a difference through design. Learn more about the Honorees here and join us April 22 at Town Hall Seattle.

Are you a seasoned professional who is considering applying for AIA Fellowship? The deadline to complete nomination form to be considered for component nomination is this Sunday March 16. Candidates for the College of Fellows must be nominated by either their assigned component or by a petition By completing our nomination process, you are putting yourself forward for component nomination and you’ll have the support of our amazing Fellows + Honors Committee, who will coach you through the submission process.

Mass Timber’s Portland Happy Hour | March 25

YAF + WiD’s Call for Happy Hour Host Firms | Deadline April 1

YAF’s Licensing Workshop Series | April 2

DRT + SIAF + NOMA NW Social Hour | April 16

Look to our events calendar for committee meetings and other upcoming events.

This Month in Advocacy: Social housing funding approved – voters opt for 1A over 1B! AIA Seattle joins pro housing voices for Comp Plan – sign up to testify at the next hearing, multiple dates ahead and we are here to support you. And join Bellevue Missing Middle info sessions – February 24, 27 or March 3.

AIA Northwest Washington (NWW) serves our members in North Puget Sound, supporting and promoting the design profession through educational programs and other activities. Check here for their latest updates.

Join AIA NWW for their Mount Vernon Library Commons: Tour and Lessons from a Publicly Bid Passive House Project | March 27

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the TV series America ByDesign: Architecture to feature projects awarded through AIA Seattle’s Honor Awards program!

The series—currently featured on-air on CBS and streaming on aia.org and YouTube—is an exciting opportunity to further celebrate our design community and showcase our Honor Award-winning projects from Washington State!

Behind the Vision is our new 2025 communication series to provide our AIA Seattle community with information about activities that steward our mission, vision, and values forward. First up – we share what’s behind our mission, vision and values driven move to a new space when the lease expires at the Center in October 2025. We are incredibly appreciative of the two taskforces, many members, and the board who have thoughtfully informed these decisions the last few years and are currently working to find AIA Seattle + SDF’s next home.

AIA Seattle remains steadfast in its commitment to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in the architecture community. We aim to nurture universal inclusion and fairness for the diverse communities our work impacts. This imperative continues to guide and challenge us as we evolve our practices. Now more than ever, AIA Seattle reaffirms our dedication to putting our JE:DI commitments into practice to promote a robust pipeline that reflects the diversity of our community and inform the policies, systems, and people that shape our built environment.

AIA Seattle offers on-demand learning opportunities to expand the impact and accessibility of our programs. We encourage our members to take advantage of quality on-demand learning through our partnership with aecKnowledge, AIAU, and other chapters’ programming such as this year’s Housing Forum, Housing: A Stage For Life. Learn more about this and other on-demand opportunities here. And check out all of the major in-person, virtual continuing education programs and events we have on the schedule this year.