Exhibits
Discover Your Inner Architect / Designer
To meet our goal of increasing public understanding and appreciation of architecture and design, SAF offers a wide variety of special events and exhibits designed to stimulate conversation and engage the community. From topical discussions to unique exhibitions, SAF provides opportunities to discover and understand architecture. For exhibits see below. For more information on events, click here.
Blueprints: 100 Years of Seattle Architecture
Boom and bust. Progress and preservation. World-class wants and homegrown needs. Many factors have had an effect on life in the Northwest during the past 100 years. Blueprints is a permanent exhibit illustrating the impact of architecture on the Northwest, and its relation to growth and change in the Seattle area. With an impressive collection of historical and contemporary photographs, drawings and artist renderings, original art, models, and building remnants, Blueprints reveals the sometimes complex, always fascinating, and occasionally antagonistic relationships linking designers and their projects with the churning mass of social, economic, political, and cultural forces that surround them.
The Blueprints exhibit is located at the SAF offices in the Rainier Square Atrium, 1333 5th Avenue, Third Level. With few exceptions, the exhibit and offices are open year-round, Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm and 9am to 1pm on tour days. On occasion, staff will close the exhibit for off-site meetings. Before making a special trip to see the exhibit, please call 206.667.9184 to confirm availability. SAF will make the exhibit available during off hours by special request.
2009 Exhibits
Representations: 12th Annual Model & Drawing Exhibit
- When:
- Friday, June 26 - Friday, July 31 2009; Hours: Mon- Sat from 10am - 2pm.
- Where:
- 1333 Fifth Ave (between Union and University) in Foster/White Gallery
- How Much:
- Free and Open to the Public.
Join us Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5pm for the Opening Reception. The event is free, but please RSVP to tracy@seattlearchitecture.org. The exhibit will also be open on 1st Thursday, July 2 from 5-8pm.
Our 2009 annual architecture exhibit has a new theme and an earlier date this year! Individuals, Firms and Students have submitted over 70 drawings, renderings and models to this year’s exhibit.
These are some of the questions we invite you to explore in this year’s exhibition…
Drawings and models are representations of the built environment, but they can also be seen as complete works in themselves, works that interact with our imagination in ways that perhaps no real building can. Can the vision they represent tell us something about the buildings we live in? Can they tell us something about the world we would like to live in? How do these representations reflect our environment and how do they differ? Can models and drawings provoke a search for meaning in our built environment?
The exhibit space is available for your event during closed hours. For more information, email Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest at tracy@seattlearchitecture.org or call the office at 206-667-9184.
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