TEAM COORDINATION MEETING: Monday, June 1st from 6-7 at Miller Community Center on Capitol Hill. (http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Centers/Miller/directions.htm).
School and Vocational Training Center
San Miguel Escobar, Guatemala
Architects without Borders-Seattle has been asked to collaborate on the design of a new school complex and vocational training center in San Miguel Escobar, Guatemala. We will be working with the community of [...]
Design Making Change Exhibition: March 17th to April 30th, AIA Seattle (1911 1st Ave.). Opening Reception on April 2nd.
Come Join us for the opening of this Exhibit on April 2nd from 5 to 7pm at the AIA Seattle. AWB-Seattle projects are featured. For more more information, please see the poster. Spread the [...]
Hurricane Katrina Relief Work
Ninth Ward, New Orleans
AIA Seattle and Kevin Daniels invite you to join a group of fellow architects and preservationists as they head down to the Big Easy to work on damaged historic home in the Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans.
When: April 13th – 19th
Where: New Orleans
Why: Hurricane [...]
More information here.
Rebuild a historic home in New Orleans in October: Seattle developer Kevin Daniels, board member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will be taking a group of architects and developers to New Orleans October 6-10 to rebuild a historic home. Informational meeting September 23, 5:30, First United Methodist Church. If you would [...]
When: Tuesday, July 8th, 4pm to 6pm
Where: AIA Seattle, 1911 1st Ave.
Please join co-sponsors AIA Seattle and AWB-Seattle for this very important presentation on recovery work in New Orleans.
Although the immediate need is for disaster relief, there will be a need for technical assistance in the near future. This will include damage assessment, planning and rebuilding. An Architects Without Borders – Seattle board member, Paul Wu, will be meeting with the Deputy Council from the Chinese Emabassy on Monday to talk further about [...]
AWB-Seattle has been approached by the Banda Aceh Peace Resource Center to provide concept design for a visitors center and to assist with masterplanning for a peace park to commemorate the 2005 peace agreement between separatists and the Indonesian government and to provide a memorial for victims of the Tsunami and [...]
When: Saturday March 15th 2008, 10am-1pm
Habitat will provide lunch
RSVP to Rachael: rachaelm@bergerpartnership.com
Sick of Drawing?!
Then join a team of AWB’ers for the Design Build Challenge – Displaced Populations Seattle 2008. A 3-day design build challenge where the team chooses a local organization (from a given contact list) with a community design need. The team will collaborate with the organization, prepare a design [...]