Design, Construction
![Chromasphere, light fixture sculpture that illuminate the new Podium sports complex in Spokane. By WSU architecture professor Taiji Miyasaka and Seattle artist and engineer Clayton Binkley](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/04/2022summer-last-words-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Organic and geometric, reclaimed
![Front of Washington State University's Vogel Plant Biosciences Building showing windows](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/01/2022spring-betwixt-between-1-198x198.jpg)
The betwixt and between of energy-efficient buildings
![A kitchen redesigned by Tanna Edler](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2022/01/2022spring-designing-women-1-198x198.jpg)
Designing women
Significantly Washington
![Lake Quinault Lodge](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2021/04/2021summer-classic-buildings-thumb-198x198.jpg)
Twelve more significant buildings of Washington state
The Washington Classic Buildings project, led by Washington State University faculty, selected 235 structures across the state for the Society of Architectural Historian’s Archipedia. Below are 12 examples of that list.
Read more about the Washington Classic Buildings.
Lake Quinault Lodge, Quinault
J. Philip Gruen/SAH Archipedia
Nestled in the Olympic National Forest, the rustic, timber-framed, V-shaped Lake Quinault Lodge draws upon Colonial Revival traditions and features natural wood-stained shingles, gabled ends, dormers, and a cupola. Built … » More …
![Pedro Castro](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/10/2020winter-five-building-new-directions-2-198x198.jpg)
Building on new directions
![Tobias Jimenez](https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/902/2020/07/2020fall-building-empowerment-thumbnail-198x198.jpg)
The building of social empowerment
Tobias Jimenez spent his childhood in the type of settlement that he and his colleague Sean Anderson are now striving to improve.
The structures “have no electricity,” Jimenez says. “None have potable water. They’re not connected to the sewer. It’s not sanitary.”
Jimenez (’17 Arch., ’19 M.Arch.) was born in Pasco but moved to Colima, Mexico, with his parents as an infant. They raised him in an informal settlement— “like a favela,” he explains—on the city’s outskirts. “You’re focusing on surviving. You’re spending most of your time and energy trying to meet your basic needs. Living there is one of the reasons I decided to … » More …
Gallery: Designs from informal
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