Summer Solstice 2013

AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable

16th Annual Summer Solstice/Juneteenth Celebration

Book Talk & Diversity by Design Exhibit Opening Reception

Friday June 14, 2013 at UW Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (3931 Brooklyn Avenue NE, Seattle)

The recently-opened ECC, designed by Roundtable past Chair Alex Rolluda, occupies the site of the original Center designed by Washington's first African American architect, Benjamin McAdoo (BArch UW 1946).

4pm Book Talk NEW ARCHITECTURE ON INDIGENOUS LANDS w/ authors Joy Monice Malnar & Frank VodvarkaPanelists Daniel Glenn, Bruce Haden, Henry Hawthorn, Johnpaul Jones, Marie-Odile Marceau, Brian McCormack, David McIntyre, Patrick Stewart, Alfred Waugh, Bob WeisenbachBooks available for purchase, thanks to Peter Miller Books5:30pm Opening reception, Diversity by Design: first annual exhibit of projects by local firms & offices expressing how diversity enriches design, also incorporating an illustrated history of the Diversity Roundtable (est. 1986). At UW ECC 6/14-28, with planned future displays at Bellevue City Hall, U. of Oregon, AIA NW+P Regional Conference 2013, AIA Convention 2014EXHIBIT PRIME SPONSOR: LMN ARCHITECTS

SUPPORTERS: Bassetti Architects, DKA Architecture, Jones & Jones, MulvannyG2, UW Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity

The celebration includes introduction of this year's recipient of support for UW Architecture studies from the Marga Rose Hancock Endowed Scholarship for Diversity, Gabrel Gonzales; and Jason Tran, recipient of the Mitsu & William O. Fukui Memorial Endowed Diversity Scholarship. Contributions requested to advance the Marga Rose Hancock Endowed Scholarship for Diversity, the Denice Johnson Hunt Endowed Fund, the Sharon Egretta Sutton Endowed Architecture Fellowship, & the Mitsu & William O. Fukui Memorial Endowed Diversity Scholarship: donate online.At the Solstice event: Diversity by Design exhibit; New Architecture on Indigenous Lands panel; ECC architect Alex Rolluda presents UW VP for Minority Affairs Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange with a plaque documenting the original ECC and its architect Benjamin McAdoo; Diversity Scholarship recipients Gabrel Gonzales & Jason Tran with Marga Rose Hancock & David Fukui; Roundtable veterans Donald King, Rico Quirindongo, Alex Rolluda, Johnpaul Jones, Davd Fukui