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  • 2024 AIA Seattle Awards

    January 20, 2024

      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 member awards program, which recognizes individual leadership and achievement in design and the built environment…


  • Faculty Led Exhibits Abroad and in the United States

    January 20, 2024

    Mood-Vironment | South RenderingMood-Vironment | Birds Eye RenderingMood-Vironment | North Interior RenderingThe Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the WorldThe Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the WorldThe Wright Imperial Hotel at 100: Frank Lloyd Wright and the WorldPrevious imageNext image Overseas, the exhibition “The Wright Imperial Hotel at…


  • UW M Arch students selected as finalists for the GRAY Awards

    January 15, 2024

      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 international competition recognizing creative excellence & outstanding work happening around the world. Read more about…


  • Modern Architecture Activism: The Life and Work of Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr.

    January 15, 2024

    University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Center Rendering, 1970, Courtesy Seattle TimesMcAdoo House, 1958, Bothell, WA, Courtesy Puget Sound Regional ArchivesWedgwood Bank, 1972, Seattle, WA, Courtesy Tyler SpraguePrevious imageNext image This exhibit showcases the modern architectural designs and social activism of Benjamin F. McAdoo Jr. (1920-1981) - a graduate of the University of Washington, Department of…


  • UW Student Chapter Competes in 2023’s NOMA National Conference

    November 8, 2023

    NOMAS UW 2023 National Conference Team Photo

    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 Student Design Competition, one of the highlights of the conference held in October in Portland.


  • Students Receive 2023 Planet Positive Award from Metropolis Magazine

    November 8, 2023

    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 from Metropolis Magazine. The team consisted of: Bryce Boho (Architecture), William Flanagan (Architecture), Lu He…