Portland Hotel (Greetings From Portland)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
AIA Historic Resources Committee
Committee members will offer design advice for new six-story 60,000 square foot mixed-use office building in the NW 13th Avenue National Register Historic District, with underground parking for 40 vehicles and a rooftop deck also proposed. AIA/Portland, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 12PM Wednesday, March 16. Free.
Memory, Loss, And Salvation: Union Station(S), The Portland Hotel, And Henry Villard
During Portland’s Gilded Age, railway magnate Henry Villard planned to bestow on the city both a world-class hotel and the largest train station in the world. This Architectural Heritage Center lecture by writer and historian Alexander Benjamin Craghead explores the troubled story of Villard’s buildings: the Grand Central Passenger Station, the Hotel Portland, and Union Station. Their stories are a fascinating mixture of loss of public memory, forces of destruction, neglect, and preservation, the ironies of urban history, and the controversies over architectural authorship. Craghead, a doctoral candidate research at the University of California Berkeley, is also the author of Portland’s Railway Palaces: The Architectural Patronage of Henry Villard, forthcoming from the History Press in 2016. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, March 19. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Additions & Alterations of Existing Buildings in Portland
In the first of a two-part continuing education presentation on codes, Samir Mokashi of Code Unlimited will give an overview of his company’s recent experiences on additions and alterations to multiple buildings in the City of Portland. Mokashi offers perspective about the changes to how the city views these projects as well as a primer on additional requirements that are being added to the code. Attendees can learn to determine ways to identify pitfalls and create strategies that avoid these common mistakes. Sample projects will include a broad range of building types, varying construction materials and cost considerations, as well as code considerations; accessibility, energy conservations, seismic triggers, and working without permits. AIA/Portland, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 12PM Wednesday, March 23rd. $70 ($50 for associate AIA members, $30 for AIA members).
Growing Seoul: Rethinking the South Korean Landscape through Urban Agriculture
In 2012, Mayor Park Won-Soon declared densely developed Seoul, South Korea the next "Agro City," and himself demonstrated rice planting in the central public plaza. In this monthly Architects Without Borders meeting, Lindsay Burnette, a Fulbright junior researcher and AWB Steering Committee member, will explore the convergence of political trends and historical roots shaping today's "green landscapes" in Seoul. She'll examine three approaches to building urban agriculture: government initiatives, grassroots movements, and landscape architecture and design. AIA/Portland, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 6PM Wednesday, March 23rd. Free.
The Bungalow In Portland: An Historic Overview
The bungalow in its many forms was Portland's most popular house type in the decades leading up to World War II. Neighborhoods all around the city contain clusters of these beautiful yet often modest homes. Bungalows were quite modern for their time, but they were also affordable enough to make home buying a reality for working and middle class Portlanders. In this Architectural Heritage Center lecture, University of Oregon adjunct historic preservation professor Tom Hubka will explore the exotic and complex sources behind the development and popularity of the common bungalow house. This illustrated talk will include an analysis of the arts and crafts movement and the development of the craftsman/bungalow style as well as the role of local builders in creating Portland's most popular form of the bungalow. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, March 26. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Last Sundays at the Watzek House
The UO John Yeon Center for Architecture and the Landscape invites you to Last Sundays at Portland's only National Historic Landmark residence, the Aubrey Watzek House. Completed in 1937, the home's bold yet timeless synthesis of many traditions of residential architecture into a refined new language became an important inspiration for the Northwest Style of Modernism. Published widely and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art next to such icons as Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, the house has influenced generations of architects. Watzek House, 1061 SW Skyline Boulevard. 1PM Sunday, March 27. $20-30 sliding scale (free for Yeon Center members and students).
Code, Comfort, and Cost: Dynamic Challenge of Atriums
In this second of a two-part continuing education presentation on codes, PSamir Mokashi of Code Unlimited and Vai Potnis of EnergyTech Unlimited will discuss the multi-dimensional design personalities of atriums. Through natural ventilation, night flush systems, smoke evacuation, confluence of distinct spatial elements, and operating as vibrant community spaces, atriums create dynamic challenges in design and interpretation of building code, energy code, and mechanical code. This presentation will examine the regulations, historical design solutions, and how the multiple programmatic requirements influence or do not influence each other — as well as the final solutions. AIA/Portland, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 12PM Wednesday, March 30th. $70 ($50 for associate AIA members, $30 for AIA members).
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