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The Northwest Architectural League, doing business as ARCADE, is a nonprofit organization that produces a quarterly magazine about architecture and design in the Northwest.

ARCADE provides an independent voice for civic discussion and a platform to explore and promote quality design in the built environment. http://arcadejournal.com/public/mission.aspx

Founded on the conviction that design profoundly affects the world, ARCADE provides and encourages critical examination of the buildings, products, infrastructure and ideas that define the present and shape the future.

Organizational Leadership

Arcade is governed by a volunteer board of trustees representing the broad design community and those committed to design excellence.

ARCADE’s content is overseen by a volunteer editorial committee, which consists of several board members and additional community members.

goals are implemented by a full-time managing director and three part-time employees—an editor, a marketing coordinator and an editorial assistant.

Contributors:

Each issue of ARCADE is the result of a steadfast volunteer effort from a dedicated editorial committee, writers, artists and guest feature editors. The editor assembles content, recruiting a feature editor from the community to curate a series of pieces constituting the feature section of each issue.

Past contributors include:

Gary Lawrence – Urban Strategy Leader at ARUP, who has advised the Clinton Administration’s Council of Sustainable Development, http://arcadejournal.com/public/IssueContents.aspx?intIssue=1&intVolume=26

Lead Pencil Studio – celebrated Seattle practice creating projects in architecture and installation art and winners of the 2007 American Academy in Rome’s prestigious Rome Prize http://arcadejournal.com/public/IssueContents.aspx?intIssue=4&intVolume=25

Frances McCue – co-founder of Seattle’s Richard Hugo House http://arcadejournal.com/public/IssueContents.aspx?intIssue=4&intVolume=24


To keep the design fresh, ARCADE employs a new graphic designer for every volume (four issues).

ARCADE’s design has received national recognition, including repeat publication in PRINT’s Regional Design Annual and awards from the Society of Publication Designers.

Audience

In the next year, ARCADE will distribute 20,000 magazines to design professionals, educators, students and enthusiasts locally, nationally and internationally.

it will reach:

Architects, urban planners, policy makers, interior designers, landscape designers, real estate developers, contractors, graphic designers, artist, students, university instructors, civic leaders, design clients and the design-minded public

History

From its inception 26 years ago to the present, ARCADE’s production has been a labor of love; nearly all content is generated and coordinated by volunteers. The organization hired its first paid staff person in the summer of 2000. ARCADE now has three paid staff members in addition to its volunteer board of trustees and editorial committee.


In 1981 ARCADE was conceived and published by Catherine Barrett, Susan Boyle, Ann Hirschi and Trina Deines—architecture schoolmates and close friends to this day. They started the magazine because the Northwest didn’t have anything like it at the time; they wanted to continue the fecund dialogues that were part of their architectural education, including ongoing critical inquiry and a passion for visualizing their aggressive creativity. They simply wanted to give architecture in the Northwest a voice—to continue the conversation they began in school and galvanize a new one within the design community.

In 1993, ARCADE hit a few bumps in the proverbial road…

Architecture- and ARCADE-enthusiast Victoria Reed grew tired of opening her mailbox in anticipation of the latest issue of ARCADE only to find the cupboard bare. She investigated the missing magazine, discovering that it had gone into remission due to lack of funds, sheer exhaustion of its volunteers, etc. Vicki single-handedly set out to revive the publication. She solicited the creative talents of ARCADE’s last-known graphic designer, Ted Mader, and the help of others previously involved in developing the content.

ARCADE was reborn in September, 1996 and still thrives today.


Referances

www.arcadejournal.com

AIA Seattle 2005 honor awards

http://hovie.com/print_arcade.shtml

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/Charities/search_detail.aspx?charity_id=8795

http://www.nea.gov/Grants/recent/06grants/06AAE.php?CAT=Access&DIS=Design