Changing the Rules: Designers Who Shape What Gets Built | Seattle, WA
Harvard GSD - Surf Incubator, Wells Fargo Center, 999 Third Avenue, Suite 700, Seattle, Cambridge, MA
Join GSD community members in Seattle, WA, for the second installment of theGSD Alumni Lecture Series. Sponsored by theGSD Alumni Counciland theHarvard Club of Seattle, this panel brings together four GSD alumni who have changed the rules governing what gets built through model-building codes, municipal administration, policy analysis, and elected office. These distinguished practitioners will discuss what prompted them to move beyond individual projects, what this change cost them in time and career momentum, and how others can get involved. Q&A to follow. Refreshments will be served. Special thanks toDarren Chang (MArch ’08)of Darren Vinci Architecture & Design for organizing and toMelissa Alexander (MAUD ’13), Data Visualization Principal at Blue Cottage of CannonDesign, for moderating. Questions? ContactDevelopment & Alumni Relations. Susan Jones (MArch ’88) is the founder of atelierjones LLC. atelierjones has been a national leader in designing and building early mass timber buildings in the US since 2012. She represented AIA National on the ICC Tall Wood Building Committee to adopt the tall mass timber code in the 2021-2024 code cycles. In 2025, atelierjones represented the…