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Graham Baba
Architects Sets the Bar for Restaurant Design CEP Alumna Sylvia
Tatman-Burruss Finishes Year with AmeriCorps VISTA TiLT Volunteers Design
and Build for Aloha Inn Transitional Housing Program Kundig Book, Houses 2, Available for Pre-Sale from
Princeton Architectural Press Jim Olson: Architecture for Art Retrospective Mona Johnston Presents Master's Thesis at SAF

Graham Baba
Architects Sets the Bar for Restaurant Design

Kolstrand Building in Ballard
Jim Graham and Brett Baba (MArch '85) of Graham Baba Architects are rapidly defining
the hottest in Seattle restaurant design. Projects such as Ballard's Walrus
and the Carpenter are receiving national acclaim for the architects' "place-making"
magic. See more photos and information from the article in the Seattle Times.
CEP Alumna Sylvia
Tatman-Burruss Finishes Year with AmeriCorps VISTA

Photo from Ajo, AZ - "bee keeper.jpg"
CEP Alumna Sylvia
Tatman-Burruss Finishes Year with AmeriCorps VISTA Sylvia Tatman-Burruss (BA ’10, Community, Environment and
Planning) spent her first year after graduation as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer
working fulltime with the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) in Ajo,
Arizona. Sylvia's work supported ISDA’s mission of designing and implementing
environmental, cultural, real estate and development projects intended to
preserve and enrich the environment, culture and economy of the Sonoran Desert.
Sylvia recently sent lively and engaging “field notes," which we have reproduced with her permission in .pdf format. Read Sylvia's dispatch...
TiLT Volunteers Design
and Build for Aloha Inn Transitional Housing Program
Completed Pavilions at Aloha Inn
TiLT Community Design received a grant
from the Department of Neighborhoods to complete an outdoor pavilion at the Aloha Inn Transitional Housing Shelter. The build team volunteers
included several UW Architecture graduates. The ribbon cutting for the
structure took place at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Aloha Inn on
May 21, 2011, by Bill Hallerman, Director of the Archdiocesan Housing
Authority.
TiLT Community Design is a grassroots coalition of designers,
artisans and builders based in Seattle, Washington. Established in 2007, TILT
and its members are emboldened by the notion that public art and architecture
can improve the lives of the less fortunate and affect positive social change. For
more information and photos of the projects, visit the TiLT Facebook page.
Kundig Book, Houses 2, Available for Pre-Sale from
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton
Architectural Press announced the upcoming release of Tom Kundig: Houses 2, a monograph featuring residences by Tom
Kundig (BA ’77, Environmental Design; MArch ’81), the award-winning architect
and partner of Olson Kundig Architects. In 248 pages featuring 17 homes, the
book demonstrates how Kundig is actively redefining the vocabulary of
architecture and his commitment to the experiential nature of space – branding
him as a unique figure among international practitioners. The book includes essays
by Juhani Pallasmaa (“The Reality of the Image: The Microcosms of Tom Kundig”)
and CBE dean Daniel S. Friedman (“Man of Steel: Tom Kundig and the Architecture
of Domestic Wonder"). This book follows the critically acclaimed Tom Kundig: Houses, published in 2006. Visit Princeton Architectural Press for ordering information.
Jim Olson: Architecture for Art Retrospective
“Architecture
for Art” is the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the career of Jim
Olson (BArch ’63), one of the Northwest’s most significant architects and
founder of the internationally recognized Seattle-based firm, Olson Kundig
Architects. “Architecture for Art” opens at Washington State University’s
Museum of Art in Pullman on September 30, 2011. Click for more on this exhibit.
Mona Johnston (MArch
’11) Presents Master's Thesis at SAF

The Battery Project:
Re-commissioning the Battery Street Tunnel as a Public Space Throughout Seattle’s history, the land around the Battery
Street Tunnel has been dramatically engineered and sculpted to reflect the
desires and dreams of the western city. With Seattle and the Washington State
Department of Transportation planning alternatives to the aging Alaskan Way
Viaduct, the Battery Street Tunnel will likely be decommissioned, filled and
sealed off. Mona Johnston presented her
visionary thesis, which explores the potential of a different fate for the
Tunnel, at the Seattle Architecture Foundation’s ‘Transitions’ Model Exhibit in
July. For more information, visit: http://space-city.net/index.php?s=mona+johnston
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