David Miller, FAIA

Principal, Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle, Washington

Regional Perspectives...and the work of Miller|Hull

Monday, December 5, 2005

6:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Max Abramovitz Distinguished Lecture

David E. Miller, FAIA is a founding partner of The Miller/Hull Partnership, a fifty person firm in Seattle, a tenured professor of architecture at the University of Washington and a former co-chair of the AIA Seattle Committee on the Environment. Miller/Hull is a fundamentally design oriented firm, emphasizing a rational design approach based on the culture, climate and building traditions of a place. The firm received the 2003 AIA Architecture Firm Award, which is given to one architectural design practice in the U.S. each year. Two monographs have been published on the firm's work; Ten Houses by Rockport Press, 1999 and Miller/Hull, Architects of the Pacific Northwest by Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. David Miller has also authored, Toward a New Regionalism , released in June 2005 (University of Washington Press). This book about sustainable design illuminates the history of a 'green trail' in the work of key Northwest architects. Discussed and illustrated are environmental strategies organized according to nature's most basic elements - earth, air, water, and fire and their underlying principles and forces.