New Northwest: Residential Architecture in the Evergreen State

By Lauren Gallow

An illustrated survey of recently designed houses in and around Seattle reveals how local architects are reshaping Northwest Modernism to create homes that are deeply attuned to modern challenges and the diverse natural beauty of the region.

Throughout Washington state, a new generation of architect-designed homes is emerging, one that is unmistakably of and for the Pacific Northwest. This richly illustrated book, curated and authored by Seattle-based design journalist Lauren Gallow, highlights three dozen extraordinary homes in a range of scales, from artfully compact city dwellings and floating homes to immersive island retreats and mountain cabins. Each project reflects a clear, site-responsive approach, demonstrating how Seattle's designers are building with landscape, climate, and material integrity in mind to shape spaces that feel both contemporary and meaningfully connected to their surroundings.

Whether through the expressive use of wood, the inspired combination of old and new, or the integration of indoor and outdoor spaces, many of these designers build on the longstanding foundations of Northwest Modernism even as they reinterpret those principles for a new era. Exploring the design possibilities of smaller footprints, flexible forms, and sustainable strategies, these architects offer practical responses to housing pressures and the realities of a changing environment. Together, they illustrate a region committed to building responsibly without compromising beauty or craft.

With more than 300 photos alongside design firm profiles based on extensive interviews, New Northwest is an absorbing tour of contemporary residences in Washington state that offers insight into how each architect, whether an established or emerging practitioner, interprets the site, materials, and the lived experience of home. The result is a portrait of homes in a region whose landscape has long shaped its built identity, and which continues to evolve by the creative thinking of architects today.

Featured design firms:
Artisans Group Architecture + Planning
atelierjones
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
CAST architecture
chadbourne + doss architects
DeForest Architects
Drew Shawver Architecture and Design
Ecco Architecture and Design
Eerkes Architects
GO'C
Graham Baba Architects
Heliotrope Architects
Hoedemaker Pfeiffer
Hoshide Wanzer Architects + Interiors
Johnston Architects
Lauren Crocco Architecture & Design
Linework Architecture
McClellan Tellone
Mutuus Studio
mwworks
The Miller Hull Partnership
Okano Picard Studio
PBW Architects
rhō Architects
Signal Architecture + Research
SkB Architects
Stephenson Design Collective
Studio DIAA
Studio Nocturne
Studio Zerbey Architecture + Interiors
Suyama Peterson Deguchi
Syndicate Smith
Tokul
Trace Design
Ueda Design Studio
Wittman Estes

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773272799
• ISBN13: 9781773272795
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
• Length: 312 Pages