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Washington Architects

  • Profile: Nils Finne, AIA

    Nils Finne, AIA, has long exemplified the highly skilled regional practitioner. Based in Seattle, he draws on Asian, Scandinavian, and mid-century modernist influences in work that distills the environmental and cultural currents of the contemporary Pacific Northwest.

     
  • Peter Q. Bohlin

    ra50: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

    Bohlin Cywinski Jackson explores the nuances of place, people, and how things are made.

     
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    ra50: Cutler Anderson Architects

    Cutler Anderson has mastered the art of timeless design.

     
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    ra50: Miller Hull Partnership

    Miller Hull's concern for the environment anticipated by decades the profession's current interest in sustainability.

     
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    ra50: Mithun

    Mithun designs regionally appropriate homes witha sustainable twist.

     
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    ra50: Olson Kundig Architects

    Olson Kundig’s houses move comfortably between art, nature, and architecture.

     
  • top firm: the miller|hull partnership

    No region of the United States has a stronger, more deeply rooted, or more characteristically regional modernist architecture than the Pacific Northwest.

     
  • jay janette, aia, and david goldberg, aia

    Seattle-based Mithun always considered itself a regional firm with a strong focus on residential planning and design work, but in 2008 the collective opened a San Francisco office in a move forward as a more diverse and, it hopes, recession-proof company.

     
  • a clear logic

    Eric Cobb's focus is on structure, simplicity, and surprise. His houses respond to the topology of the land while engaging it lightly. They're often thrust over a steep slope or wetland and rotated toward a chosen view—and not always the predictable one. Materials are abstract, durable, readily...

     
  • change agent

    Chapin knows that the loose edges of towns, with their mind-numbing mazes of streets, cannot be improved simply by sending out talented architects. Innovative solutions must come from better planning.

     
 
 
 
 
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