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2025 Alumni Awards Recap

 

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 …

Student Recap: AIA Large Firm Roundtable Deans’ Forum

 
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 …

Alum in The News: Rico Quirindongo

 

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

The life and legacy of Anthony Costa Heywood

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 …

ARCADE NW Launch

ARCADE NW is a non-profit community publishing house focused on projects related to art, design, and architecture.

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Alumni Featured in NY Times “Living Small”

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 …

design exCHANGE 2024

 

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 …

2024 AIA Seattle Awards

 

We are proud to announce that four members of the UW Architecture community have been recognized with an AIA Seattle Award this year!

“Each year, AIA Seattle celebrates leadership and achievement in design and the built environment through its …

UW M Arch students selected as finalists for the GRAY Awards


 
Furniture pieces designed and built by Master of Architecture students Morocco Branting and Jeremy Salesin in our 2023 Scan Design Furniture Studio have been selected as finalists in the GRAY Awards Student Design category.

The GRAY Awards is an …

UW Department of Architecture 2023 Fall Lecture Series

 


 

The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture
Bugesera, Rwanda

 

Seeking Abundance

Katie Swenson | MASS Design Group

 

Wednesday, November 8 5:30PM
147 Architecture Hall

 

Katie Swenson is a Senior Principal at MASS Design Group, where she

2023 Scan Design Foundation Visiting Professor: Søren Nielsen

 

2023 Scan Design Lecture Poster

 

Wednesday, October 04 5:30PM
147 Architecture Hall

 

Søren Nielsen is the 2023 Scan Design Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments. Søren is architect and co-owner of Vandkunsten Architects in Copenhagen,

Professor Rick Mohler Appointed Chair of the Department of Architecture

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 …

In Memory of Norman Pfeiffer, FAIA

Source: Pfeiffer Partners

 

The Department of Architecture is saddened to learn of the passing of one its most illustrious graduates, Norman Pfeiffer, FAIA. Norman was born in Seattle in 1940. His grandfather was a construction superintendent and Norman was …