Rendering of Neuberger Hall renovation (Portland State University/Hacker)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
Hidden Alphabet District Walking Tour
Most people experience this historic neighborhood, also know locally as Nob Hill, strolling down 23rd or 21st Avenue, enjoying the high-density chic that this area is known for. On this Positively Portland walking tour attendees will join guide Eric Wheeler to look at some of the less known historic architectural landmarks of this area, including several landmark churches, residences, apartment buildings and even a park that define the more lightly trafficked corners of this historic NW Portland neighborhood. Tour begins at Parish of St Mark, 1025 NW 21st Avenue. 1PM Friday, February 16. $15.
Fridays@4: Reimagining Neuberger Hall
Portland State University's Neuberger Hall is undergoing a major renovation designed by Hacker Architects that will include seismic stability, accessibility, and hazmat abatement. As part of the PSU School of Architectutre's Fridays@4 series, Rashmi Vasavada, an associate with Hacker Architects, will discuss the process of redesigning and modernizing the structure, completed in 1969. Neuberger Hall is a significant structure for PSU students because it houses the offices of the registrar, financial aid and other critical services. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, SW Broadway and Hall Street. 4PM Friday, February 16. Free.
Pearl District Tour - Preservation in the Midst of Change
Over the last 20 years, the Pearl District has been transformed from industrial enclave and rail yards into one of Portland’s most popular residential, cultural and retail districts. A century ago, the area went through a similar transformation, from a working class housing area at the edge of a marsh to the city’s biggest industrial and warehousing area. Many of Portland’s best known architects of the period designed buildings for important local and national companies. Most of these buildings remain, with their exteriors intact, and new uses inside. But as the pending demolition of the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Feldman Building (a renovated old warehouse) reminds us, the current wave of development could threaten more historic buildings. Tour meetup location to be announced. 10AM Tuesday, February 20. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Docomomo Oregon Modern Mixer
This is a free social networking event for Docomomo (which stands for documentation and conservation of the modern movement) members, non-members, and modern design enthusiasts and advocates to converse with the chapter's board. One can get to know fellow members and non-members while learning about upcoming chapter events and programming, advocacy, and how to help move modern architecture's preservation forward. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside Street. 5:30PM Thursday, February 22. Free.
Fridays@4: Domestic Architecture in Times of Change
PSU School of Architecture adjunct faculty member Kateryna Malaia will discuss her research as a doctoral candidate in the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Malaia's current research is concentrated on the decade before and the decade after the sociopolitical rupture of the collapse of the USSR. She investigates the role of home in the creation of the post-Soviet condition, and asks how socioeconomic and political change transforms both dwellings and public ideas about home. Unlike urban public spaces, the spatiality and architecture of homes have not received the amount of attention they deserve in the context of this sociopolitical transformation. In this work, Malaia follows a different view: a revolution starts (and ends) at the “kitchen” and politics are produced and lived at home no less than in public. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, SW Broadway and Hall Street. 4PM Friday, February 23. Free.
Merchants and Markets Tour
Exploring the heart of Portland’s late-nineteenth century commercial district, this Architectural Heritage Center tour visits the Yamhill Historic District and nearby historic buildings of SW Second and Third Avenues. The route is packed with the names of prominent city pioneers who made their mark as merchants, developers and architects as well as providing some of the city’s finest examples of cast iron, Richardsonian Romanesque and Classical buildings. The tour also will visit the Willamette’s first bridge, the first public market, and the city's first Chinatown as we discuss how the district spearheaded the first preservation efforts for Portland’s downtown. Tour meetup location to be announced. 10AM Tuesday, February 27. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Architects Without Borders: Resilience Focus
This latest meeting of the Oregon chapter of Architects Without Borders kicks off a yearlong focus on the topic of resiliency, and asks: Can we prepare for disaster by pooling resources and tools through neighborhood-level tool libraries? Where can such facilities be housed and sited? The chapter has invited multiple organizations and agencies such as the Portland Office of Neighborhood Involvement, the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management, Portland Public Schools, Northeast Portland Tool Library, Mercy Corps, and Parents for Preparedness to discuss shared goals and how AWB can partner with them to build stronger communities. This new project will need volunteers with skills in areas such as graphics, community organizing, marketing, architecture, and landscape architecture. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 6PM Wednesday, February 28. Free.
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