Thank you to all who joined us for the 2025 Architecture Alumni Awards. It was a joy to come together and celebrate the remarkable impact of our alumni community.
We were proud to honor four outstanding graduates in two …
Thank you to all who joined us for the 2025 Architecture Alumni Awards. It was a joy to come together and celebrate the remarkable impact of our alumni community.
We were proud to honor four outstanding graduates in two …
AIA Large Firm Roundtable Deans’ Forum
October 16th, 2024
AIA New York | Center for Architecture
This past October, I was invited to the AIA Large Firm Roundtable Deans’ Forum in New York City as the student representative of …
Congratulations to Trevin Thompson (M Arch 2025 candidate) and to the three other CBE students, Braedyn Reed, Kort Maeda, and Lela Cooper, on their recognition to the 2025 Husky 100. This prestigious recognition honors 100 …
Congratulations to Rico Quirindongo, AIA, for his recent recognition as one of Seattle Magazine’s Most Influential people in 2025. Rico graduated from our Master of Architecture program in 1999 and was awarded the UW Architecture Distinguished Alumni Award in
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Anthony Costa Heywood, known affectionately as Tony, passed away on November 18, 2024. He was the husband of renowned architect and University of Washington professor Astra Zarina, the founder of the UW Rome Center. A distinguished architect and one of …
Jim Donnette passed away on November 10, 2024, after a life marked by optimism, adventure, and dedication to teaching. Jim was an alumnus of the UW Master of Architecture program (1969) and a member of the UW Architecture faculty for …
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Congratulations to Best Practice (Ian Butcher, MArch 1999 and Kailin Gregga, BAAD 2002) whose Aspen Leaf Ranch design was published in The New York Times’ Living Small column. We caught up with Ian and Kailin to chat about Best Practice …
Daniel Simons (MArch 1998) and his fellow Principals at Bay Area-based David Baker Architects published an article in this month’s ARCHITECT magazine on the Nine Ways to Make Affordable Housing for People.…
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Professor Mehlika Inanici has been awarded the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) 2023 Leon Gaster Award. The Leon Gaster award is presented for the best paper included in the SLL Lighting Research & Technology Journal concerned with lighting applications, …
This year, 98 architects in the U.S. and beyond were elevated to the AIA College of Fellows, including Professors Ann Marie Borys and Kate Simonen. Nine of the department’s permanent and affiliate faculty are now AIA Fellows. In addition, …
The 2024 design exCHANGE exhibit is an annual exhibition of unbuilt projects by local Seattle architecture firms. The projects showcased are located in the Pacific Northwest region and all around the world.
This exhibit is free and open to …
Overseas, the exhibition “The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World” curated by Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima at the Toyota Museum of Art (Aichi, Japan) attracted a record 35,000+ visitors while on view October-December …
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Congratulations to our University of Washington National Organization of Minority Architects student chapter (NOMAS UW) who represented the College of Built Environments and the Department of Architecture at 2023’s NOMA National Conference. They participated in this year’s Barbara G. Laurie …
In Winter 2023, four interdisciplinary student teams in the Architecture 507 design studio explored development strategies at the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in the Central District. One of teams was recognized with the 2023 Planet Positive Award for Student Work…
We are proud to announce that UW AIAS is hosting the 2024 West Quad Conference, Bloom: Emerging Solutions for Urban Sustainability, in Seattle from April 4-7, 2024. This conference will welcome architecture students from around the western …
Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima curated/authored The Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the World, a major exhibition and fully-illustrated book currently at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. Five years in the …
Professor Rick Mohler was appointed Chair of the Department of Architecture in June 2023. Throughout his career he has promoted just, policy-driven cities, shaped by principled design, addressing all scales of urban experience through teaching, action research, professional practice, and …
Mike Mora (MArch 1994), a partner in Seattle-based Heliotrope Architects, had a recently completed remodel and addition to a landmarked Seattle home featured in the New York Times on September …
Associate Professor Tyler Sprague was one of five faculty from throughout North America recognized with a 2023 ACSA Timber Education Prize which honors courses that “seek to recognize effective and innovative curricula that create a stimulating and evidence-based
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MArch students Andrew Baltimore and Eric Luth were one of ten winning teams in the 2023 AIA/ACSA COTE Top Ten for Students Competition for their submission Watershed, completed in the Spring 2022 ARCH 508 Research studio with faculty Gundula …