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Join us on April 9th for an inspiring lecture by Seattle-based architect and mass timber pioneer Susan H. Jones, FAIA, celebrating the release of her new book, Light on Wood.
In this talk, Susan reflects on the personal and professional journey behind designing and building with mass timber. Light on Wood explores wood as both a traditional and forward-looking material—interweaving design practice, research, advocacy, and architecture’s role in addressing climate change. Through built work and lived experience, Susan shares how mass timber has reshaped not only her practice, but the future of the built environment.
Susan will highlight award-winning projects including CLT House, one of the first completed cross-laminated timber homes in the United States, where wood takes center stage as a material that is both nostalgic and visionary.
Join us next month for a wonderful lecture with Architect Nader Tehrani, graciously hosted at the Frye Art Museum!
oin us at The Shop – LMN Architects in Seattle’s Pioneer Square for an inspiring evening with award-winning architects Anne Marie Duvall Decker, FAIA, and Roy Decker, FAIA. Fresh from their New York Architectural League presentation, they’ll share strategies for creating public value, achieving design excellence with limited resources, and empowering communities through architecture. Discover insights from their new book, FOUNDATIONS, and enjoy a post-talk happy hour reception.
The unprecedented challenges of rapid urbanization, ecological instability, and widespread resource depletion are matched only by an exponentially increasing capacity for innovation in architectural thought and production. Emerging technologies, communications, and models of practice offer a new generation the ability to identify and transform the most pressing urban and ecological issues through design. AGENCY positions architectural design as a systemic instrumentation of material ecologies, social constituencies, political policies, and ethical thought, embracing a transformative role, and enabling new paradigms of cultural production.
Eric Höweler (b. Cali, Colombia) is an architect with over 20 years of experience in practice and an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is co-founder of Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a design-driven architecture practice and creative studio that believes design is an instrument for imagining and implementing change – social, cultural, technological, and environmental. Recent projects at Höweler + Yoon Architecture include 212 Stuart St, MIT Museum, and Lithos Hotel. Previously, Eric served as an Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, where he was the senior designer on the 118 story ICC Tower in Hong Kong. Höweler was a Senior Designer at Diller + Scofidio where he worked on institutional and cultural projects, such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Juilliard School/Lincoln Center in New York.
Chronicling the trajectory of an architect craving recognition, The Masterplan unfolds as a fictional reconstruction of an architectural dream blown to dust by bigger forces. When asked to design the capital of a young African republic, Rodrigo Tomás sees the opportunity of a lifetime. Eager to outshine his famous father he accepts, but he soon discovers that not all is what it seems…
