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Architecture and PlanningWashington, United States2-10 Employees
UPWARD Architecture & Interiors is a small architecture and planning practice based in Seattle, Washington. Founded by architect Mark Ward, the firm operates as a collaborative team that blends design, business insight, and technical skill to deliver projects in hospitality, distillery and winery, manufacturing, adaptive reuse, and custom homes. The practice emphasizes meaningful client relationships and aims to reveal and organize clients’ ideas through customized problem solving rather than imposing a single approach. Its guiding principles include adaptive reuse of existing structures, promoting active design to discourage sedentary lifestyles, and creating quiet, dignified spaces. While the firm is rooted in the Seattle area, its work spans a range of project types that require thoughtful consideration of context, morphology, and user experience.