Space.City is an independent not for profit organization dedicated to spirited public discussion of art, architecture, urbanism and cultural issues in the spatial arts.

We are based in Seattle, WA.

Organized by a handful of volunteers and registered as a not-for-profit organization, Space.City is an independent architectural group.

Our focus and purpose is to inspirit a dialogue among architects, artists, and others involved in the culture of our city.

As an information hub for Seattle's architectural community and to keep our community active, Space.City maintains an email list to communicate local arts and architecture events. By this network we support Seattle's other architectural groups and design organizations -- A:BC (Action Better City), AIA and AIGA, Cornish, DocoMomo, Henry Gallery and other museums, Suyama Space and other alternative galleries, Seattle Architecture Foundation, and UW School of Architecture. We welcome new members and encourage involvement. Subscription is free. Join us.

Space.City has a twelve year history of hosting architectural lectures and other cultural events in Seattle. Since our formation in 1997, Space.City has presented talks by more than a dozen artists and architects whose ideas and contributions cover the spectrum of creative and critical thinking today. The colorful list includes Anderson Anderson, Tadao Ando, Cecil Balmond of ARUP, Shigeru Ban, Gunther Behnisch, Marlon Blackwell, Alison Brooks, Yung Ho Chang, Steve Christer of Studio Granda, Brad Cloepfil, Xaveer DeGeyter, Dietmar Eberle of Baumschlager & Eberle, Rafael Fajardo, Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Tony Fretton, Richard Gluckman, Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Toyo Ito, Vincent James, Einar Jarmund of Jarmund Vigsnæs As Arkitekter MNAL, Carlos Jimenez, Mathias Klotz, Kengo Kuma, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Eric Owen Moss, Tim McDonald of Onion Flats, Anthony Pellecchia of WPa, Gaetano Pesche, Joshua Price-Ramus of REX, Jesse Reiser, RIGGA, Michiel Riedijk of Neutelings Riedijk Architecten, Lindy Roy, Javier Sanchez of JSa, Brigitte Shim, Werner Sobek, John Stamets, Jarmund Vigsnaes, and William Zahner. We have also hosted numerous informal discussion 'salons', three urban design forum with Seattle's former mayor Paul Schell, and two panel style symposia, "Libraries of the Future" and "Surrogate Bodies".

Space.City works in partnership with Suyama Space. We thank Peter Miller Books, Greg Bishop, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, 4Culture, and the Allen Foundation for the Arts for their continued support.

 

 

This fall Space.City hosts the lecture series Urban Acupuncture. Michael Maltzan of Michael Maltzan Architects speaks Thursday November 19. His is the third lecture in a series featuring three award-winning architects presenting projects of strategic urban intervention. Tim McDonald of Onion Flats spoke on Monday September 28, Javier Sanchez of JSa captivated us on Tuesday October 27.

Lecture tickets are available for $10 at Peter Miller Architecture and Design Books, 1930 1st Avenue (at Virginia St.) in Seattle. Tickets are also available via brownpapertickets Tickets will be $15 at the door.

Our lectures take place at Seattle Central Library at 6:30. A reception follows.

Michael Maltzan Architecture (MMA) is an architecture and urban design practice committed to the creation of progressive, transformative experiences that chart new trajectories for architecture, urbanism, and the public realm. Led by Michael Maltzan, FAIA, the practice is dedicated to the design and construction of projects for the arts and education which engage their context and community. Through a shared belief in the role architecture can play in the contemporary city, this work has created new connections and catalyzed change across a range of scales, programs, and contexts from MoMA to Skid Row.

see www.mmaltzan.com

Space.City wholeheartedly thanks NAC for their sponsorship of Tim McDonald/Onion Flats, Walsh Construction, Miller/Hull Partnership and Mahlum for their sponsorship of Javier Sanchez and Schuchart Dow for thier sponsorship of Michael Maltzan.

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