Architect Charles Rose (Charles Rose Architects)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
Urban Design Panel: the Broadway Corridor
Please join AIA Portland, the American Planning Association – Oregon Chapter, and ASLA Oregon for a presentation and discussion about the future of the downtown Portland Post Office site and surrounding areas. Representatives of ZGF and Prosper Portland will provide an update on the background, process and priorities for redevelopment planning for the Broadway Corridor. Redevelopment of the Broadway Corridor is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to add to Portland’s economy and vitality and to deliver community benefits. The Broadway Corridor study area is approximately 32 acres and encompasses several Prosper Portland-owned properties, including the recently acquired 13.5-acre USPS Property and Union Station. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 12PM Tuesday, October 17. Free.
Integrated Thinking: Working Towards the City of the Future
The AIA Portland Committee on the Environment’s Green Champions Summit will tackle the city of the future with a focus on integrated thinking and approaches to sustainable design. Nico Larco, an associate professor at the University of Oregon and co-founder of the Sustainable Cities Initiative, will frame the conversation of integration between a variety of scales and disciplines. Speakers will also include Naomi Cole of EcoDistrits, Katie Zabrocki of PAE Engineers, and Charles Brucker of PLACE. Vestas, 1417 NW Everett Street. 5PM Tuesday, October 17. $5-35 (ticket cost breakdown not provided).
UO Fall Lecture Series: Charles Rose
After graduating from Princeton University and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Charles Rose established his Boston-based architectural practice with the intent to develop innovative yet contextually appropriate work. Early in his career, he worked with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, an experience that influenced his design philosophy of architecture that "sees the site." In over two decades, he has completed more than 50 buildings throughout the United States that have adhered to this credo. His award-winning buildings have been praised for their form, orientation to site, and carefully composed experiential sequences. Additionally, with increasing environmental concerns, clients are seeking the firm’s expertise in sustainability and zero net energy design and implementation—marking a new chapter of exploration. University of Oregon, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. 5:30PM Tuesday, October 17. Free.
ASHRAE Oregon chapter October meeting
The ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Oregon Chapter's meeting features presentation and discussion about the Advanced Energy Design Guides , one of the most popular publications in ASHRAE’s history with well over 500,000 copies in circulation. The presenter, Ronald Jarnagin, was one of the original committee members responsible for developing the guides. Ecotrust building, 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Second Floor. 5PM Thursday, October 19. $50 ($45 for ASHRAE members, $10 for students).
Design Museum Mornings: VR For The People
As part of the Design Museum Portland's Design Museum Mornings series, keynote speaker Shelley Midthun, executive director at Oregon Story Board, will explore the human-centric design of VR and how it allows for cross-disciplinary understanding through empathy and collaboration. Virtual/mixed reality technology represents a momentous shift in the world of design. As a tool, it broadens designers’ abilities immensely. It also presents a unique opportunity for connection between industries who have previously struggled to understand one another. Virtual reality takes its users beyond the imagined hypothetical design and submerges them in actual experience—whether that be the layout of a building or the feeling of a prosthetic limb. This accessible encounter makes design easier to understand and lays the groundwork for collaborative projects that would be otherwise infeasible. Iron Fireman Collective, 4784 SE 17th Avenue. 9AM Friday, October 20. $11.54 (free for Design Museum Portland members).
Fridays@4: Master of Architecture thesis manifestos
As part of the Portland State University School of Architecture's Fridays@4 lecture series, 25 master of architecture students will present manifestos representing the themes, questions, or proposals that will form the basis of their design theses. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, Broadway and Hall Street. 4PM Friday, October 20. Free.
The Bridges Of Bridge City: An Overview Of Portland’s Willamette River Crossings
We see them and cross them on a daily basis, but how much do you actually know about Portland’s bridges? This Architectural Heritage Center lecture examines the history, construction, and engineering of the city’s current Willamette River bridges and the structures that preceded them. Attendees will learn about some of the bridges' unique features and interesting details while presenter John Doyle shares images of current and past bridges. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, October 21. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Old Town tour
For those interested in history and architecture, no visit to a city is complete without seeing its Old Town – and Portland should be no exception. With a streetscape reminiscent of New York’s famed SoHo, Old Town contains one of the largest collections of cast-iron fronted buildings in the US, with most concentrated within the neighborhood near our famous Skidmore Fountain. On this fascinating tour, you’ll see the oldest standing buildings in downtown, while also learning about some of the city’s earliest architects and how cast-iron played a central role in their designs. You’ll see fine examples of historic preservation in action and also learn about some of the lost architectural gems that once lined the streets near the river. Tour meetup location to be announced. 10AM Tuesday, October 24. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
AIA Emerging Professionals Happy Hour
This month the Oregon chapter of Architects Without Borders is hosting the AIA Emerging Professionals Committee's monthly Happy Hour. The committee works to further the professional development of all Associate AIA members, students, and architects licensed under 10 years, through fellowship, education and supportive networking. AIA Center For Architecture, 401 NW 11th Avenue. 5:30PM Wednesday, October 25. Free.
Jury Critique Night
In preparation for the 2017 Portland Architecture Awards, the three-person Bay Area-based jury—Zoë Prillinger of OPA, Allison Williams of AGWms_studio, and William Leddy of LMS Architects— will be sharing their work and discussing their impressions of Portland design and of this year's Design Awards submissions. AIA Center For Architecture, 401 NW 11th Avenue. 5:30PM Thursday, October 26. $5 (free for students).
CPID Talks: Derv Heaney on responding to the housing crisis with design
Derv Heaney is a designer and researcher from Northern Ireland and currently works for the UK's leading youth charity, The Prince's Trust. She has been awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to travel to Finland, Sweden and the US to research new approaches to affordable housing. Heaney is the founder of The Holding Project, a social enterprise which will build 20 micro houses for young people on vacant land within Belfast city center. The project will focus on young people who are struggling to make ends meet within the social housing or private rent sector, and will offer them the chance to live on lower rent within the project for two to three years. At this Portland State University talk, she’ll be discussing her research interests and work on the Holding Project as part of the Center for Public Interest Design's CPID Talks series. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, Broadway and Hall Streets, Room 217. 12PM Friday, October 27. Free.
Researching the History of Your House
Have you ever wondered who lived in your house before you? Or maybe even who built it? What was your neighborhood like when your house was first built? How has it changed? Researching the history of your house can answer many of the questions you might have. In this Architectural Heritage Center workshop, Tibby O’Brien and Morgen Young will take attendees through the steps to uncover the history of one's vintage house (as well as most any other building). Using the latest online sources, local archives, and libraries, they will show that the process is not so mysterious when one knows what steps to follow and where to look. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, October 28. $12 ($8 for AHC members).
Garthwick neighborhood walking tour
Located just south of Sellwood and north of the Waverly Country Club, this hidden residential neighborhood provided a great outdoor laboratory for architects and builders working in the most popular residential styles of the 20th century. This Architectural Heritage Center tour explores one of Southeast Portland's lesser-known historic neighborhoods. Tour begins at SE 17th Avenue and Ochoco Street. 10AM Saturday, October 28. $12 ($8 for AHC members).
Last Sunday at the Watzek House
The University of Oregon's John Yeon Center for Architecture and the Landscape invites the public to tour Portland's only National Historic Landmark residence, the Aubrey Watzek House. Completed in 1937, the Watzek House'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. 11AM and 1PM Sunday, October 29. $20 (free for Yeon Center members and for students).
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