See what they did there.
See what they did there. Images courtesy of Center for Architecture & Design

There's a new place to see and discuss architecture, design, and urban planning in Seattle. In fact, it's the only public venue for these dialogues and exhibitions, and it officially (but quietly) opened this week at 1010 Western Avenue—those people you see in the pictures got invited to the industry opening; the grand opening for the rest of us is March 5.

It's called Center for Architecture & Design, and it brings together the offices and efforts of AIA Seattle; Seattle Architecture Foundation; Design in Public, which organizes Seattle Design Festival every year (my profile of DiP's visionary leader, Susan Surface); and the statewide organization AIA Washington Council.

The first exhibition, open Tuesdays to Saturdays for free, is called FORM, and it features the speculative ideals of local designers: their models, their drawings, their schemes. This one's curated by SAF; you can drop in anytime.

Architectural design: Discuss.
Architectural design: Discuss.

Meanwhile, in architecture news, the traveling Louis Kahn exhibition, Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture, opens at Bellevue Arts Museum Friday. You'll be hearing more about that here soon, from Charles Mudede.