Last year's Portland Winter Light Festival (Brian Libby)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
Walking Tour: Luxury Hotels in Downtown Portland
Today Portland's venerable group of historic hotels has been joined by several contemporary newcomers. This Positively Portland Walking Tour will start at the classic Heathman Hotel and continue through downtown viewing several more distinctive hotel lobbies before ending at the historic Multnomah Hotel, now part of the Embassy Suites chain. Included in the tour will be comments about the architecture and history of the hotels visited. Tour begins outside lobby of Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway. 1PM Friday, February 1. $15.
Howard S. Wright: Building Pathways
As part of the PSU School of Architecture's Fridays@4 lecture series, alumni Arielle Baune and Rachel Stehly will describe their roles at Howard S. Wright, a general contractor doing business in the Pacific Northwest for over 130 years. Perhaps most notably, the company is currently overseeing reconstruction of the landmark Michael Graves-designed Portland Building. The presentation will provide a glimpse into construction project management including an overview of the company, daily responsibilities, and project case studies. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, 1914 SW Park Avenue. 4PM Friday, February 1. Free.
Portland Practices: A Conversation on Equity, Inclusion, and Action in Architecture
A panel of architectural practitioners and representatives from local design advocacy groups will gather for a wide-ranging panel discussion on reshaping professional practice and studio culture toward equity, inclusion, and political engagement. Participants include architect Amanda Petretti of Studio Petretti, UO Portland Architecture program director Brook Muller, architect Jennifer Wright of Richard Brown Architects (and a member of the AIA Portland Committee on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, UO Portland Architecture Program professor Justin Fowler, architect Kelly Chanopas of ZGF Architects (also a member of the AIAPCEDI), Seattle architect Kristin Kelsey of Herman Miller Architecture (also a UO professor), and Diversity In Design's Sun Joo Kim and Téjara Brown. University of Oregon, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. 5PM Friday, February 1. Free.
Visualizing the Sacred: Herman Brookman, FAIA and Portland’s Congregation Beth Israel
Acclaimed Portland architect Herman Brookman (1891 - 1973) arrived in the early 1920s from New York and was responsible for designing several landmark buildings including the former Frank Estate, Fir Acres, which now part of the Lewis & Clark College campus, as well as the Harry A. Green residence in the Laurelhurst neighborhood. His most impressive project, however, turned out to be the only synagogue Brookman ever designed: Temple Beth Israel (1928) in Northwest Portland. In this Architectural Heritage Center lecture, architectural historian Henry Kunowski will provide an in-depth look at Brookman's designs for Congregation Beth Israel, providing insight into Brookman's life and career along the way. In 2017, Kunowski co-curated with Kenneth Helphand, FASLA and Philip H. Knight emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, an exhibit of Brookman's Temple Beth Israel drawings first displayed at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and in 2018 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, February 2. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Walking Tour: Cast Iron and Classics in Downtown Portland
This Positively Portland Walking Tour along First, Second and Third Avenues from Salmon Street to Oak Street features some of the best surviving examples of Portland's cast iron architecture in one of the earliest National Register districts in the city. Included in the tour are several Classical Revival buildings that defined the image of the city in the early 20th century. Located between the waterfront and city center, this neighborhood has experienced a renaissance in recent decades and is the home to several notable Portland hotels, shopping destinations and dining venues. Tour begins outside Starbucks, 910 SW Second Avenue. 1PM Saturday, February 2. $15.
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. 10AM Tuesday, February 5. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Designing for Nonprofits: A Lesson in Listening
Lisa McClellan, a principal at Scott|Edwards Architecture, will discuss approaches to designing buildings for nonprofit clients. McClellan received her master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1995 and promptly drove across the country to rural Pennsylvania, where she designed housing for farmworkers while serving as a Design Corps fellow. Over the past 20 years, her work has explored the power of architecture to promote a mission, build communities and enrich lives — resulting in more than 40 successful projects for non-profit housing, healthcare, social service and economic development clients. University of Oregon, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. 5:30PM Tuesday, February 5. Free.
Carbon12 Tour
A tour of Carbon12, designed by Path Architecture and developed by Kaiser Group. The building is currently the tallest in the United States framed with cross-laminated timber. In the past, Portland’s building code restricted wood-framed buildings to 65 feet. Carbon12 received code approval based on an overriding state-based workaround, but codes have since changed to make this type of building more possible to become commonplace. “To make an impact around environmentally conscious construction, you have to start with the big idea,” Path and Kaiser Group's Ben Kaiser told Architect magazine. 12 NE Fremont Street. 12PM Wednesday, February 6. Free.
2019 IIDA Oregon NEXT Breakfast
The Oregon Chapter of the International Interior Design Association hosts this annual breakfast keynote featuring insights of thought leaders from the design industry and beyond. This year's event will feature three speakers: Wieden + Kennedy creative direcotr Dan Viens; Traci Sym, principal at Plus & Greater Than; and Timberview Productions founder Laura E. Hall. Multnomah Athletic Club, 1849 SW Salmon Street. 7:30AM Thursday, February 7. $65 ($55 for American Institute of Architects or American Society of Interior Design members, $45 for IIDA members, $15 for students, $10 for IIDA-member students).
Portland Winter Light Festival
The fourth annual Portland Winter Light Festival is a city-wide event showcasing illuminated art installations, vibrant performances, and stunning kinetic fire sculptures throughout the city. The festival will be divided into three zones—in the Central Eastside near OMSI, downtown at Salmon Springs and the World Trade Center, downtown around Portland State University and the South Park Blocks—with additional sites in the Pearl District, Alberta Street, Mississippi Avenue, and Cathedral Park. Various locations. 6PM Thursday-Saturday, February 7-9. Free.
Design Museum Mornings: Illuminating a Cultural Icon
Our ability to control and manipulate light has steadily improved with time, and new technologies have allowed for ever greater creative freedom within lighting design. Crafting a story with light requires an architectural comprehension of space, and an ability to construct a narrative through a non-traditional medium. Through manipulation of space, light, and time, we can create beacons that welcome, inform, and impart a tangible cultural experience from an ephemeral source. As part of Design Museum Portland's Design Museum Mornings talk series, Luma Lighting Design principal Zachary Suchara will discuss lighting for the newly-renovated Japanese Garden Cultural Village, a $33.5 million cultural-campus addition to the Portland Japanese Garden designed by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (with local firm Hacker as architect of record). Suchara will outline how light was used to transform this new iconic landmark within the garden, and how theses effects shape the visitor’s experience. PAE Consulting Engineers, 522 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 1500. 8:30AM Friday, February 8. $10 (free for Design Museum Portland members).
Ridhi D’Cruz: Place-Based Empowerment
As part of the CPID Talks series from the Center for Public Interest Design at the Portland State University School of Architecture, comes from this lecture from Ridhi D’Cruz, a placemaking consultant, sociocultural anthropologist, and permaculture educator who is the co-executive director of City Repair. D’Cruz will speak on creative placemaking as a catalyst for empowerment, exploring roles of power and privilege in that process. Through City Repair, she has supported initiatives in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion, capacity building, houseless advocacy, and cultural sustainability. She is also a passionate herbalist, urban wildcrafter, natural building and participatory technology enthusiast, animal lover, and urban permaculture homesteader. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, 1914 SW Park Avenue, Room 217. 12PM Friday, February 8. Free.
Walking Tour: Sacred Spaces - Northwest Portland
In the late 19th century, Northwest Portland was the most prestigious neighborhood in the city. Today, numerous well-preserved historic residences and apartment buildings contribute to the distinctive character of the community. Situated in close proximity in this high-density area are several worship spaces built during the Portland boom years of 1890 to 1930. Each of these buildings displays a distinctive period revival style from that era. This Positively Portland Walking Tour will view four of these sacred spaces (including their interiors) and discuss about the history and architecture of each: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, the former First Christian Science Church and Temple Beth-Israel Synagogue. Tour begins at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Avenue. 1PM Friday, February 8. $15.
Molly Esteve: Topographies of Memory — Examining the Boundaries of Memorial Sites
As part of the PSU School of Architecture's Fridays@4 lecture series, master of architecture student and Center for Public Interest Design student-fellow Molly Esteve will report on her visits to Alabama, Spain, and France as recipient of the 2018 L. Rudolph Barton Travel Fellowship. During her time in these places, Esteve researched how three memorials spanning almost a century engage with and shape both territorial and temporal boundaries of memory. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, 1914 SW Park Avenue, Annex. 4PM Friday, February 8. Free.
Belluschi, Yeon, and the Northwest Regional Style
The Northwest Regional style of modern architecture has origins dating to at least the early 20th century, but it wasn't until the 1930s that it came into its own, thanks to the work of architect Pietro Belluschi and designer John Yeon. Yeon's Watzek House (1937) is often held as the gold standard of the style, which emphasized the integration of nature and building through the elegant use of local woods and lots of glass. In this talk, presenter Brian Libby (the same guy writing this calendar entry) explores the rich history of this architectural style, putting it into context with other mid-20th century architectural movements while also discussing several other practitioners of the Northwest Regional style, including Van Evera Bailey and John Storrs. In addition to writing the Portland Architecture blog, Libby has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, The Atlantic, Metropolis and Dwell, among others.This program is supported in part by a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is the first in a series of 2019 AHC education programs focused on Modernism. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, February 9. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Old Town Tour
The commercial district near the Skidmore Fountain and the oldest standing buildings in downtown comprise this tour of Portland’s only National Landmark Historic District. Visitors on this Architectural Heritage Center tour will see the work of Portland’s earliest architects, learning how cast iron played a central role in their designs and how the city developed so close to the river. Along the way, visitors will also learn about some beautiful but long-lost buildings while also seeing great examples of historic preservation. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Tuesday, February 12. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Roark Beisel: The Manifestation of Peace
As part of the PSU School of Architecture's Fridays@4 lecture series, undergraduate Roark Beisel will explain how the architecture in Hiroshima and Nagasaki has responded to the damage brought upon by World War Two. He will discuss how natural and human elements have manifested in the design of the new cities. The presentation will convey the temporal narrative of peace and togetherness that has manifested in these post-war cities. Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, 1914 SW Park Avenue, Annex. 4PM Friday, February 15. Free.
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