We are proud to announce the induction of four outstanding individuals into the College of Built Environments Roll of Honor. This year’s distinguished honorees are:

• Ms. L. Jane Hastings
• Mr. Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr.
• Professor David E. Miller
• Professor Anne Vernez Moudon

The Roll of Honor recognizes individuals whose careers have had a lasting impact on the built environment, particularly in architecture, urban planning, and design. These honorees are celebrated for their leadership, innovation, and profound contributions to the region’s landscape.

2025 Honorees

Jane Hastings (1928-2024)

For over forty years, from 1959 to 2002, Jane Hastings led one of the earliest and most successful woman-owned independent architectural practices in the Northwest. She was also deeply involved in professional organizations, community service and teaching, and over the course of her career served as a professional leader nationally and internationally.
Lois Jane Hastings decided to be an architect during her childhood and never wavered from her chosen career path. She graduated from the UW with her B. Arch. degree with honors in 1952 and received the Alpha Rho Chi Medal which recognizes leadership, service and “promise of professional merit.” Having supported herself through school by working at Boeing, in 1954 she took a position with the U.S. Army that also allowed her to explore the architecture of Europe. Hastings began her own architectural practice in 1959 while working part-time, then practiced as L. Jane Hastings, Architect, beginning in 1961.

Her early work was primarily residential including single-family homes, multi-family housing and small office buildings, with the residential designs winning recognition from the Seattle Times/AIA Home of the Month program (a program she had helped to start before opening her own office). In 1974 she formed the Hastings Group, a larger firm that took on more than 500 projects including residential, commercial, educational and infrastructure projects. She was named a Fellow in the AIA in 1980.

Throughout her career Hastings served the architectural profession in a variety of ways, beginning with managing volunteers at the AIA Pavilion at the 1962 World’s Fair, serving on the AIA Seattle Board of Directors (1967-70) and as chapter president (1975), then on the national AIA Board of Directors (1982-84, 1986), and as Vice President (1978-87) and Secretary-General (1988) of the International Union of Women Architects.

In 1992, she became the first woman chancellor of the AIA College of Fellows. Other contributions included managing and teaching in the Architectural Drafting Program at Seattle Central Community College (1969-80), service on the City of Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board (1980-83), and on the Design and Construction Review Board for the Seattle Public School System. In 1995 Hastings was recognized with the AIA Seattle Medal. In 2002, she was the first recipient of the AIA Northwest & Pacific Regional Medal of Honor. Her memoir, The Woman in the Room, was published in 2023.

Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr. (1920-1981)

Benjamin F. McAdoo, Jr., was the first Black architect to operate a long-term practice in the region. He was also a significant spokesperson in the fight for Civil Rights in Seattle.

Benjamin McAdoo received his B.Arch. from UW in 1946. He opened his architectural practice in 1947 and was among the leaders in the development of the Northwest regional version of Modernism. After 1949 his designs received frequent recognition through the Seattle Times/AIA Home of the Month program, including the Hochberg residence, Mercer Island (1954), the Ota residence, Seattle (1956) and the Hage residence, Seattle (1956). McAdoo’s own house, Bothell (1958), was also extensively covered. McAdoo was the developer and designer of the Ben-Mar Apartments, Seattle (1954), the first FHA-insured multifamily residential apartment complex in Seattle and one of the very first to welcome tenants of any ethnicity. He was also responsible for the design of several Seventh-Day Adventist churches in Seattle and across the Northwest. In 1954 McAdoo unsuccessfully ran for a position in the Washington State Legislature. In 1956 he served a one-year term as president of the local chapter of the NAACP; he would serve a second term in 1966.

In 1962, McAdoo accepted an appointment to lead a housing program in Jamaica for USAID and was responsible for the construction of about 800 concrete block homes. He subsequently worked in Washington DC, for the general Services Administration in Washington DC (including work on the Kennedy Center), before returning to Seattle in 1964. By 1968 he had resumed his practice and received larger design commissions including the King County Central Blood Bank, Southcenter Branch (1970), University of Washington’s Ethnic Cultural Center (1972; destroyed), Seattle Forward Thrust projects such as Fire Station No. 29 (West Seattle, 1972) and Queen Anne Pool (1978), and Seafirst Branch Banks in Wedgwood (1972), Rainier Beach (1973), and Lake Hills, Bellevue (1975).

In addition to his practice, he was a leader in the effort by Seattle’s Black community to secure more opportunities in construction projects. From 1974 to 1979, he broadcast a weekly radio commentary on social issues, often focusing on the challenges faced by ethnic minorities.

Over the course of his career, before his death in 1981 at age 60, McAdoo was responsible for over 400 designs, encompassing residential, institutional and commercial architecture. At the same time, he was an advocate and a role model who helped open the doors for more inclusive design and construction professions.

David E. Miller (born 1944)

Dave Miller is founding partner of the Miller|Hull Partnership in Seattle and a Professor Emeritus of the UW Department of Architecture where he taught from 1990 to 2021, and served as Chair from 2007 to 2015.

Dave Miller received his B.Arch. from Washington State University in 1968, then worked in Brasilia as a Peace Corps volunteer. He received his M.Arch. at the University of Illinois in 1972. In 1980, Miller and Robert Hull opened the Miller|Hull Partnership. Under the partners’ leadership, Miller|Hull emerged as one of the most important architecture firms in the Pacific Northwest. Miller|Hull has received over 350 design awards for local, national, and international projects including housing, infrastructure, commercial and institutional buildings, and U.S. embassies.

Professor Miller was the lead designer or co-designer on roughly 50 of these projects, including: the Point Roberts Border Station, Point Roberts WA (1997); 1310 E. Union Condominiums, Seattle (2001); South Lake Union Discovery Center, Seattle (2005); 156 W. Superior Condominiums, Chicago (2006); Gorton/Bounds Bunkhouse, Decatur Island WA (2019); U.S. Embassy Campus, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2023); and Pike Place Market, Seattle, MarketFront (2017), Overlook Walk (2024).

In 1990, after teaching occasional design studios, Miller became an Associate Professor in the UW Department of Architecture; he was promoted to Professor 1998. He served as Department 2007- 2015. During these years Miller lectured at over twenty American universities and held distinguished visiting professorships at the University of Oregon and the University of Maryland. Miller’s book, Toward a New Regionalism: Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest (UW Press: 2005) presented his approach to design, emphasizing the tectonic and humanistic foundations for the sustainability in the built environment. Miller retired from teaching in 2021.

Miller was named an AIA Fellow in 1994. Miller|Hull received the national AIA Architecture Firm Award, the AIA’s highest award for architectural practice, in 2003. Miller and partner Robert Robert Hull were co-recipients of the WSU Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2007.

Anne Vernez Moudon (1945-2025)

Anne Vernez Moudon was an internationally known urban designer who taught at UW from 1981 to 2015 and continued to carry out research thereafter. Her research, publications, teaching and service helped improve the human experience of cities by addressing urban form, transportation, human health, and the ways in which cities support a robust pedestrian environment.

Moudon was born in Switzerland and studied at the School of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne (EPFL) and at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her B.Arch. in 1969. After professional experience in Colombia and New York, she joined the faculty at MIT in 1975 focusing on housing. She completed her D.Sc.(now Ph.D.) at EPFL in 1987.

In 1981, Moudon came to UW, teaching urban design; she rose through the ranks becoming a (full) Professor in 1987, with appointments in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design & Planning. From 1986 to 1993 she served as the director of the CBE Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Urban Design.

During her UW career Moudon’s interwoven research and teaching focused on the urban character of communities (with Seattle as a frequent subject of study). Her first book Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco (MIT, 1986) was based on research that also served as one foundation for “form-based codes” that foster continuity between traditional and contemporary building forms. She also pursued research on “streets as a public good”; her edited collection, Public Streets for Public Use (Columbia University, 1987), included chapters by UW faculty, Seattle professionals, and internationally known urban planners and designers.

Over her career, Moudon became internationally recognized as an expert on the pedestrian environment and was frequently included on design teams for street and other infrastructure projects. She was a leader in forming the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) in 1996, and she served as its first president (1997-2002). In the 1990s, Moudon pioneered the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to explore street networks, pedestrian activity and urban form. At UW she established the Urban Form Lab (UFL), taking on wide-ranging research projects addressing human behavior in the urban environment while engaging numerous faculty and students in a variety of UW departments. She co-edited the book Monitoring Urban Land Supply with GIS: Theory, Practice, and Parcel-based Applications (Wiley, 2000). Moudon shared her research with students in urban design courses such as “Reading the City,” “Urban Form,” and others. Moudon retired from teaching in 2015, but continued to lead the UFL until the early 2020s. Moudon passed away in Paris, France, in 2025.

“The College of Built Environments is proud to induct these four extraordinary individuals into the Roll of Honor. Their contributions have shaped not only the physical spaces around us but also the fabric of our communities. Jane Hastings, a trailblazer for women in architecture; Benjamin McAdoo, a champion for inclusivity in design; Dave Miller, a leader in sustainable architecture; and Anne Moudon, whose work has redefined research on urban form. Their contributions embody the values of leadership, innovation, and social impact that inspire us to continue pushing boundaries and creating spaces for a better future,” said Ken Yocom, Dean of the College of Built Environments.