News from Swift
UW Runstad Department of Real Estate Advisory Board
Barbara Swift joins the multidisciplinary Advisory Board in 2019, continuing her work at the University of Washington as a community volunteer and advisor.
WSU Troy Hall Renovation AIA Seattle Award
The transformation of Troy Hall in the heart of the Pullman historic campus receives an award of Merit for Design. Designed with future campus plan changes in mind, the site integrates the historic campus landscape and creates a terrace adjoining a future central green.
ASLA 2018 Annual Meeting – Inside Swift Company
Gareth Loveridge and Barbara Swift share Swift Company’s approach to work, firm philosophy and practice in an ASLA “Inside the LA Studio” series presentation at the 2018 ASLA national convention in Philadelphia.
ASLA Ask Me Anything Online Interview
As part of the ASLA’s Emerging Professionals Committee, Barbara Swift participates as an invited guest in an online event, answering any and all questions. More information here.
Bullitt Foundation Grant
Barbara Swift, Thaisa Way and AP Hurd receive a Bullitt Foundation Thought Leadership and Innovation Grant in research, scholarship and action for the ”Leap Frog to a Shared ROW/Public Realms in the 22nd Century” research proposal.
DC Unbuilt Design Awards
Barbara Swift to join the 2018 Washington DC|AIA Unbuilt Work Competition jury for theoretical and commissioned work followed by an evening round table conversation at the District Architecture Center. See Unbuilt Washington Awards
Barbara Swift to Give AIA Resilience Thinking Forum Closing Keynote
Barbara Swift will provide the closing keynote address for the AIA Seattle’s Resilience Thinking: Places, Spaces, Communities to occur on December 11th in Seattle. The interactive full-day forum will focus on resilience within a socio-ecological framework with the goal of building sustained capacity for action.
Swift Company receives Honor Award from WASLA for the Sound Transit Lynnwood Link Extension
Swift Company is honored to receive the 2017 WASLA Honor Award for Analysis and Planning for the preliminary corridor planning and design for the Sound Transit Lynnwood Link Light Rail Extension. The eight mile corridor extends the wildly successful light rail system north from Northgate in Seattle to Lynnwood, Washington.