Tim Ingold (image courtesy L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy)
BY LUKE AREHART
Editor's note: this post begins what is planned as an every-other-week roundup of goings on in Portland's architecture and design communities. To submit an event, write to brianlibby@hotmail.com.
Mark Mack
With thirty years experience as an architect in California, Mark Mack's design sensibility, clarity of form, and simplicity of construction have earned him a highly notable reputation. Since 1993, Mack has been a Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Additionally, he has been a member of the visiting design faculty at Harvard University, Rice University, University of Chicago, and Sci-Arc. The lecture, part of UO's will cover the work of Mack Architect's over the last twenty-five years emphasizing international multifamily housing projects as well as the interrelation ship of teaching and practice. 5:30pm Tuesday, April 16, 2013, University of Oregon in Portland, White Stag Block, Event Room, 70 NW Couch Street. Free.
Placing Series: Tim Ingold
The influential anthropologist gives the fifth presentation
in the “Placing” lecture series, offered by the Department of Architecture at
Portland State University. The series will address the once-controversial
assertion that “architects create places, not spaces,” discussing the ways in
which the active processes of siting, locating, positioning and placing things
and people in the world are conceived and embodied in their work. 6pm Thursday,
April 18, 2013, Shattuck Hall Annex, corner of SW Broadway and Hall
Streets. www.pdx.edu/architecture,
503-725-8405. Free.
CraftPerspectives Lecture: Cassandra Coblentz
Taking its title from a passage of writing in Joan Didion’s
1979 essay “The White Album,” Los Angeles-based guest curator Cassandra
Coblentz employs Didon’s text as an evocative lens through which to view the
diverse body of artwork produced by nine distinguished Oregon-based artists who
have and continue to make remarkable contributions to the region’s cultural
landscape. 6:30-8:00pm Thursday April 18, 2013, Museum of Contemporary Craft,
724 NW Davis St, http://cal.pnca.edu/e/725,
503-223-2654. Free.
Demystifying the Renovation Process
A Panel Discussion with Robert Kraft of Kraft Custom
Construction and Wade Freitag of Craftsman Design and Renovation. Please bring
your questions and photos and get answers straight from the experts on a
variety of subjects, such as the pros and cons of do-it-yourself work; how to
balance your interest in historic preservation with the requirements of modern
building codes; and what to expect when working with a contractor. This program
offers insight that will help you approach your next project in an orderly
fashion and with the confidence to succeed. 10:00am-12:30pm Saturday, April 20, 2013, Architectural Heritage Center 701 SE Grand Avenue, http://www.visitahc.org/content/demystifying-renovation-process,
Members: $8 General Public: $15, pre-registration suggested.
Canstruction Gala Awards Ceremony
A celebration of the achievements of the Canstruction teams,
a place to recognize the event sponsors, and an opportunity to mingle with
others in the architecture, engineering and construction community. 5:00pm Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013, The Nines, 525 SW Morrison. To request a ticket email
Amber Corsen at canstruction@sda-portland.org by Wednesday, April 17th.
Strange Utility: Architecture Toward Other Ends
A symposium that seeks unexpected ways of defining “utility”
within and with respect to the built environment. This symposium will be
structured around a series of events and speakers who will provocatively
question the nature architecture’s utility—particularly its relation with art,
literature, the urban environment, and the sciences. The symposium seeks to
redefine architecture’s use value by exploring these unexpected uses of
architecture in order to expand our own understanding of it today, and imagine
what the utility of architecture may be in the future. Presented by Portland
State University School of Architecture and the Portland State University
Speakers Board. 4:00-8:30pm Friday, April 26, 2013, and 9:00am-5:00pm Saturday, April 27, Shattuck Hall Annex, corner of SW Broadway and Hall Streets, www.pdx.edu/architecture or call 503-725-8405. $15 before April 23 and $25 after April 23.
2013 Solar Winery Tour
The tour includes round trip transportation, lunch in a
vineyard, solar tours and wine tasting at three wineries. Pick-up from two
locations: Portland and Tigard. 10:00am-4:00pm Saturday, April 27, 2013. First pickup: 8:45am at Platt Electric parking lot, 322 SE Taylor St. Second Pick-up: 9:15am, Tualatin Park & Ride SW 72nd Avenue & Bridgeport Rd., Tualatin. Sign up online at
http://solaroregon.org/winery-tour/details-and-registration
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