Ignacio, Colorado

Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum

The Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum was developed to preserve and share the heritage of a native people who have inhabited present-day Colorado, Utah and New Mexico for millennia.

Winner of the Society of American Registered Architects | New York Council's Design Award of Honor, the Center tells the Tribe’s story so that future generations will know what it is to be Ute, and so that visitors will come to appreciate the Ute’s rich culture.

    Above: Photo by Scott Smith

Seattle, Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington Intellectual House

Springing from the longhouse style traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, this cultural center provides a learning and gathering space for Native American students, faculty, and staff on the campus of the University of Washington.

    Photo Credit: Western Ventures Construction Photo Credit: Western Ventures Construction

Bainbridge Island, Washington

Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial Committee

Bainbridge Island Japanese-American Exclusion Memorial

Bainbridge Island, just west of Seattle, was the first site of the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps at the beginning of World War II. Jones & Jones worked with the Japanese-American community of Bainbridge Island and the City of Bainbridge Island to design a memorial and visitor center telling the story of this tragic episode in American history.

   

Corvallis, Oregon

Oregon State University

Centro Cultural César Chávez

The César Chávez Cultural Center provides a gathering place for Latin American students, faculty and alumni on campus.

The design employs heavy walls, sun-drenched color, light and shadow, courtyards and plazas—elements universal to the structures of Mesoamerican cultures and contemporary Latin American art and architecture—as its cultural expressions.

       

Santa Ynez, California

Santa Ynez Chumash Cultural Center

Jones & Jones is providing programming, design, and development services to the Tribe for their cultural center/museum, commercial development, and community park. The Museum will share the native community’s rich history, culture, and traditions with the visiting public through exhibitions, classes, native gardens, and educational programs. The design celebrates Chumash architectural heritage and cultural-landscape features while providing a safe home for repatriated cultural resources.

Seattle, Washington

Northwest Native Canoe Center

The Northwest Native Canoe Center—knit within Seattle’s new Lake Union Park—will celebrate the canoe culture that is dominant among the Pacific Northwest coastal tribes.

The design by Jones & Jones juxtaposes contemporary materials with traditional structure and form and hints at the rhythm of traditional Native American longhouses. Modern curtain wall glazing systems will stand in stark contrast to adzed cedar planks and log beams. Sloped living roofs, covered in native camas flowers, will help blend the structure into the landscape. A sandy beach will link the land to the water. The Center emphasizes the importance of Native American culture in Seattle’s history and contemporary life.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Dickinson College Jim Thorpe Center

The Jim Thorpe Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, will be a cultural center, exhibition space, and teaching environment organized around Native American history, identity, and contemporary life.

Located on the historic campus of Dickinson College, this new facility will serve as a gathering place for Native American students, faculty, and staff as well as a community-wide venue for exhibits, lectures, and programming.

The museum component presents static and rotating exhibitions that explore indigenous cultures across North America, with particular attention to the region’s history and the legacy of the nearby Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Exhibits will address themes of resilience, sovereignty, education, and cultural revitalization. More than a static display space, it will function as a living cultural hub supporting student leadership, hosting visiting artists and scholars, and fostering dialogue around Native American issues past and present.