Sarah Haase (she/her) is an architect and project manager passionate about advocating for a more socially and culturally conscious built environment. Originally from Germany, Sarah moved to Seattle after graduating with her B. Arch and Minor in Leadership + Social Change from Virginia Tech. Sarah’s range of past projects include designing and building a carbon fiber biomimetic research pavilion, developing collaborative workplace strategies for a cancer research facility, detailing the Masjid al-Haram expansion in Makkah, and theorizing sustainable Olympic Park legacies. At Schemata, she is working with clients such as public housing authorities, social service providers, cohousing communities, and public transit agencies.

A generalist and a strategist, Sarah believes the best designs come from deeply engaging with the context of the projects’ communities and environment. She enjoys getting to know and researching the needs of the client and the users, understanding the relevant industry, and envisioning the future needs of those that will be interacting with the spaces.

She aims to make accessible to all the power and privilege of design both in her Schemata projects and through community work. She has been an organizer and chairperson for the annual Seattle Design Festival, served on the board of AIA Seattle’s design advocacy organization Design in Public, is active in the Housing Development Consortium, and facilitates youth design workshops with the Seattle Architecture Foundation. She served on the 2018 AIA Seattle Honor Awards Young Voices Selection Panel and received AIA Seattle’s Young Architect Award in 2020.

Sarah also enjoys competitive tennis, mountain biking, hiking, scuba diving, traveling, skiing, exploring, and learning.