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 Landscape R.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 |