SEATTLE DESIGN IN ACTION

Throughout the city's history, Seattle design activism has engaged architects & planners with public processes shaping the urban form.  Many observe the lasting imprint of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition & the 1962 Seattle World's Fair as formative phenomena, & the influence of Allied Arts of Seattle.  Postings here document programs of urban vision:
* Action: Better City I (1967-68)
* BLUEPRINT: for Architecture (1978-88)
* The Gang of Five (1981-82)
* ARCADE (1981-present)
* space.city (1997-present)
* action: better city II (1998-2004)

In April 2013 and January 2014, veteran participants in these programs shared reflections of the impact of design in action on their communities and their careers:   then+NOW. 

Autumn 2014 University of Washington Press release:  Stirring Up Seattle:  Allied Arts in the Civic LandscapeR.M. CAMPBELL, photographs by ROGER SCHREIBER

Book Launch

Monday November 10, 2014 7:30pm @ Town Hall

Allied Arts Panel "Seattle's Civic, Artistic History"

David Brewster (moderator), R.M. Campbell, Mary Coney, Wes Uhlman