Docomomo Wewa

Susan Boyle

Principal | BOLA Architecture + Planning

Susan Boyle is a preservation architect, architectural historian, and principal of BOLA Architecture + Planning, Seattle. In her early career she served on the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board and the Seattle Architectural Foundation board, and co-founded a local design periodical, Arcade. More recently she helped establish DocomomoWEWA, a non-profit chapter of an international Modernist advocacy group. She lives on Vashon Island and remain active in historic preservation. Her current work involves landmark nominations and preservation planning for a downtown Seattle hotel, a military museum, restoration of a Chinese immigrant family home, and historic research on the mid-century Japanese garden in the Seattle Arboretum.

Andrew Phillips

Principal | SMR Architects

Architects. Andrew’s ability to see the potential in every structure makes him extremely adept at his specialties of historic preservation and adaptive reuse. He brings in-depth knowledge of the requirements involved with historic structures and building on historic sites as well as a desire to provide good design for end users of the affordable housing projects. Andrew has contributed to many of SMR’s most successful housing projects, listed in the relevant project examples below. Andrew received his BS in Environmental Design, Texas A&M University and was the recipient of the Valle Scholarship for Scandinavian Exchange, from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden