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Shifting the Paradigm: How Middle Housing Can Grow Complete Neighborhoods
Middle housing has the potential to reshape neighborhoods. By prioritizing design quality, health, sustainability and connections alongside much needed housing production, Mithun’s zoning code work is creating pathways to greater public benefits.
Posted: 10.21.2025
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By integrating art into our multidisciplinary design practice, we increase our capacity to create beautiful, culturally relevant and wonderful places to live, learn, work and connect.
04.30.2026
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Celebrating 25 Years of Green Infrastructure Partnership in Seattle
Debra Guenther explores Mithun’s significant and sustained role in shaping Seattle’s green infrastructure transformation.
04.22.2026
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From Chemistry to Carbon: Why Healthy Materials Matter
Sustainable building must include a commitment to designing equally for human, climate and ecological health.
04.09.2026
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Kapuso at the Upper Yard: Housing as Equity and Climate Strategy
At one of San Francisco’s busiest transit hubs, 131 all-electric homes create a transit-supportive, low-carbon community that advances equity, sustainability and everyday belonging for residents and neighbors alike.
02.25.2026
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Practice, Projects and People: Mithun’s Summer Internship Program
A look behind the scenes of our summer internship experience with reflections from members of the 2025 cohort about program highlights, insights gained across disciplines and key takeaways they’ll leverage to create positive change in the world.
02.05.2026
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Advancing Student Wellbeing Through Data-Informed Design
Post-occupancy evaluations provide key insights to cultivate student health, belonging and learning outcomes in K-12 school projects.
10.13.2025
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Equity Is Central to Climate Action
Deb Guenther and Jared Green, editor of The Dirt, discuss the synergy between equity and climate action, with lessons learned from decades of research, projects and practice.
09.30.2025
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The University of Washington and Cascadia College’s shared Innovation Hall demonstrates how architecture connects institutions, people, places and nature.
06.24.2025
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Innovations in Affordable Urban Campus Housing
Universities are leveraging co-housing models and shared food preparation to better address affordability and the complex needs of today’s students.
05.29.2025
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Leveraging DeafSpace Principles and Mass Timber to Advance School Design
Tuned for the needs of Deaf and hard of hearing youth, design strategies at Washington School for the Deaf could benefit any learning environment.
04.01.2025
