Firms
ARC firms bring important research questions on cutting-edge concepts and best practices in the built environment fields; support emerging scholars and practitioners in leading this research; and create a professional community for the cross-fertilization of ideas and discussion of shared priorities across our sector.
DLR Group
DLR Group elevates the human experience through design. We understand the profound impact that education has on individuals’ futures and embrace our responsibility as designers to society and future generations by creating spaces and environments that foster structured learning and social experiences and celebrate diversity and inclusivity. We embrace each unique campus culture by using our 360-degree engagement process to fully understand users who will be impacted – including students, faculty, administration, staff, and visitors.
Contacts: Jim Beckett and B Sandborn
Mithun
Mithun is an integrated design firm dedicated to creating positive change in people’s lives. As a national practice with offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, we are a unified design studio with an open and collaborative spirit founded on a process of inquiry and listening. We are committed to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) as key expressions of our mission of Design for Positive Change.
Our team of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, urban designers and planners creates seamless experiences that are unique expressions of each client, community and place. We work in a wide range of typologies and scales – with a focus on urban environments and places where people live, work, and learn.
Building upon a rich history of research at the firm, Mithun R+D seeks to advance design knowledge and its application through internal embedded project research, external partnership opportunities and intellectual research pursuits.
Mithun is an internationally recognized leader in sustainability, combining exemplary design with a focus on building and site performance, human health and social equity. Our work has been recognized with hundreds of peer and industry awards including six AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten project honors and ranking among the nation’s top design firms.
Contacts: Dave Goldberg and Katie Stege
ZGF
ZGF is an award-winning architecture, interior design and urban planning firm with offices in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC and Vancouver, Canada. Since its founding five decades ago, the firm’s focus has always been integrating beauty, materiality and craft with stewardship of the natural and built environments. Their intentionally diverse portfolio spans healthcare and research facilities, academic buildings, mixed-use developments, corporate campuses, cultural centers, transportation facilities and ecodistricts.
Contacts: Todd Stine and Victoria Nichols
