Abraham Lincoln by George Fite Waters, 1928 (Wikimedia Commons)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
Portland Green Schools Committee Happy Hour
The mission of the Portland Green Schools Committee is to promote sustainability in school design and operation through advocacy and education of stakeholders about best practices for healthy and productive school facilities. At this introductory event, members will will discuss upcoming committee events and activities, learning and advocacy opportunities around green schools initiatives and the practices, policies and techniques being deployed locally and nationally to improve our school environments. Bridgeport Brewing, 1313 NW Marshall Street. 4:30PM Thursday, August 16. Free.
Emerging Professionals Committee Happy Hour
The Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architect's Emerging Professionals Committee hosts a regular happy hour series focused on how young (and not so young) professionals engage, collaborate, and implement design in different ways. This latest event, slated for the historic Film Exchange Building, will be hosted by three firms: Guggenheim Studio, Fosler Portland Architecture, and Dangermond Keane Architecture. 909 NW Ninth Avenue. 5:30PM Thursday, August 16. Free.
South Park Blocks Walking Tour
This eleven-block portion of the downtown area was first platted and donated to the City of Portland in 1852, transforming a fire break parcel into the most desirable residential area of its day, complete with schools, playgrounds, stately homes and places of worship. On this Architectural Heritage Center tour one can take a stroll through the groves of elms and recount some of the stories they would love to tell about the area’s history and architecture. The South Park Blocks stand alone as a place of revitalization, refreshment and cultural allure. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 6PM Thursday, August 16. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Design Museum Mornings: Historic Drones
Unmanned aerial systems, better known as drones, have arguably changed the way we see the world. Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, first developed drone aircraft in the 1990s to capture meteorological data over the oceans. The company's unique launch and recovery system was originally intended to be used on on boats, which lack the runway space for a typical flight vehicle launch or recovery. This “catch and release” system is also highly effective in remote land environments, like Olympic National Park in Washington, where Insitu drones are used in forest fire monitoring and detection. As part of Design Museum Mornings, an ongoing series from Design Museum Portland featuring short presentations by local thought leaders, an unnamed representative of Insitu will present the company's story. CENTRL Office West End, 1155 SW Morrison Street. 8:30AM Friday, August 17. $10 plus $2.61 service charge (free for Design Museum Portland members).
Historic Albina Tour
Once a separate city from Portland, Albina has a lengthy and diverse history – along with some fascinating architecture. This Architectural Heritage Center tour explores old Albina from stories of early proprietors and its development as a railroad town, to its transformation into the heart of Portland's African-American community and the impacts of urban renewal. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Saturday, August 18. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Hawthorne Neighborhood Tour
Originally known as U Street and later as Asylum Avenue, today Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard (named for a doctor Hawthorne who headed an asylum on the now namesake street) borders several of Portland’s most popular neighborhoods. This Architectural Heritage Center tour will explore both commercial and residential neighborhoods near Hawthorne in what was once a premier streetcar suburb on the city’s east side. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Tuesday, August 21. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Portland CSI Annual Golf Tournament
The Portland chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute hosts this annual golf tournament for the architecture, engineering and construction industry, which supports the CSI scholarship program in the process. The CI) is a non-profit association with over 13,000 members in 140 chapters nationwide, dedicated to creating standards and formats to improve construction documents and project delivery. Lewis River Golf Course, 3209 Old Lewis River Road, Woodland, WA. 10AM Thursday, August 23. $400 for a team of four ($100 individuals).
Boise Neighborhood and Mississippi Avenue Tour
The dramatic redevelopment occurring along Mississippi Avenue today is merely the latest chapter in the remarkable and unique history of this neighborhood. From an electric streetcar line to racially discriminatory real estate redlining, this tour explores the cultural and economic changes that have shaped Boise's built environment. Tour-goers will see examples of late-19th century working-class homes built primarily by Scandinavian, German, and Polish immigrants, not to mention a forgotten dance hall that once housed a temple of the Nation of Islam. 6PM Thursday, August 23. $20 ($12 for AHC Members).
Beaux Arts Portland Tour
This downtown Architectural Heritage Center tour explores the influence of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on Portland architecture of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Attendees will learn how American architects, including some from Portland, attended the school and started a trend in the U.S. emphasizing classical Greek and Roman designs, elaborate ornament, and heavy masonry – all used in a very formal manner. Stops on this tour include several of Portland’s most recognizable historic buildings and preservation success stories. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Saturday, August 25. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Sellwood Neighborhood Tour (Part II)
Before it was brought within Portland city limits in 1893, Sellwood was an independent, incorporated town. This tour, second in a series from the Architectural Heritage Center, examines an early boom era in the Sellwood neighborhood that occurred from 1900 - 1930. The history of the area is filled with interesting stories, including the development of Oaks Park and the Olmsted parks plan, a one-time horseracing track, the construction of churches and a community center, and the rise of the 13th Avenue business district. The tour takes attendees through a section of the original Sellwood tract where one can see a variety of houses and commercial buildings, some dating back to the town’s earliest days. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 6PM Thursday, July 9. 10AM Saturday, August 25. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Historic Downtown Milwaukie Walking Tour
Milwaukie, Oregon was settled by pioneers coming west on the Oregon Trail in the late 1840s and early 1850s. The first settlers established lumber and grist mills and later several families established prosperous fruit orchards. Milwaukie and other Willamette River settlements lost out to Portland in the competition to become the major city on the Willamette by the early 1860s. Through most of the 19th century, Milwaukie was a semi-isolated rural enclave that depended on the ferry or rough wagon trails for connection to Portland and other communities. Milwaukie as a community did not grow until the coming of the electrified interurban railway in the 1890s. As this Positively Portland Walking Tour will reveal, the early 21st century has brought more residential growth and the beginnings of downtown re-development, with the downtown home to creative businesses like Dark Horse Comics. The MAX light rail is now spurring more commercial and residential development. Tour begins at Milwaukie City Hall, 10722 SE Main Street. 10AM Saturday, August 25. $15.
King's Hill Historic District Tour
Many of Portland’s most notable late 19th and early 20th century architects designed homes in the hilly King's Hill, a National Register Historic District, featured on this Architectural Heritage Center tour. The neighborhood is also known for its wonderful landscape architecture, serving as a gateway to Washington Park. Tour meets at the staircase near the entrance to Washington Park on SW Park Place. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Tuesday, August 28. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
ENGAGE: Be a Community Builder!
The AIA Portland chapter's Committee on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion hosts an evening of networking and conversation with representatives from groups like Girls Inc., the Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Architects in Schools program, and the Living Future Institute's JUST program describing their work, their volunteer needs and how one can help them meet their goals. American Institute of Architeccts Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 5:30PM Wednesday, August 29. Free.
Pearl District Walking Tour - A Century of Preservation and 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 recent 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 revealed with ticket purchase. 6PM Thursday, August 30. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
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