Mark Hinshaw FAIA

Mark L. Hinshaw FAIA, FAICP (BArch University of Oklahoma '70, MUP Hunter College/CUNY '72) has had an influential career spanning architecture, urban planning, and journalism.  His election to the AIA College of Fellows in 1994 recognized the unique professional fusion that had made him effective as Bellevue's City Architect during the formative decade of his tenure there, beginning in 1982.  He served as AIA Seattle President 1992-93, assisting in preparations for celebrating the 100th anniversary of AIA Seattle's 1894 founding, including a range of programs highlighting a century of activities by local architects, a MOHAI exhibit "Blueprints: 100 Years of Seattle Architecture," and publication of Shaping Seattle Architecture:  A Guide to the Architects.

More recently in a consulting practice that spans design and planning as Director of Urban Design with LMN Architects and beginning in 2015 with Walker Macy and overseeing the urban design of Yesler Terrace with Seattle Housing Authority, he has gained increasing prominence and regard as a speaker and writer, in a variety of local, national, and international media.  While his popular column in The Seattle Times brought Seattleites a fresh look at the phenomena of their own city, designers from around the nation and the world have gained their impressions of Seattle's urban achievements from his writings in Architecture, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, and other professional journals.  Mark has described the influences that have shaped his unique way of looking at cities, as observer and problem-solver, in a wide-ranging view that spans the urban horizon "from public policy to social psychology."

In addition to his consulting in communities throughout the Northwest, Mark Hinshaw has published and lectured widely on the subject of urban design in publications including Crosscut and Post Alley.

Selected Publications:
- Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis (APA Press, 1999)
- "Community by Design," The Seattle Times 10/21/01
- True Urbanism: Living In and Near the Center (APA Press, 2007)
- Crosscut
- In TRANSITion: Urban Design Quality
- The Power of Public Space (August 2017)
- "How a Devoted Urbanist Ended up Living in a Tiny Town -- in Italy" (DJC 11/9/17)
- Design Review: A Guide for Municipal Governments (Chicago: Planners Press, August 2018)
- Mark L. Hinshaw