Statue of Abe Lincoln (a.k.a. the AntiTrump), South Park Blocks (Wikimedia Commons)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
Vocabulary of Architecture
In this Architectural Heritage Center lecture, John Doyle will help demystify the language of architecture as it relates to buildings commonly found around the Portland area. After this session one will be able to impress your friends, family, co-workers, and contractors with newfound knowledge of architectural terms such as gambrel, oculus, lintel, corbel, and quoin. Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 10AM Saturday, February 16. $12 ($8 for AHC members).
Solar Homes Tour - Milwaukie
Solar Oregon kicks off its series of annual tours with this event in suburban Milwaukie. The tour will start from Kairos-Milwaukie United Church, where a slideshow called How to go Solar will be shown. Then will begin a walking tour to see three local homes and talk to homeowners who have made the decision to produce clean energy from their rooftops. Note that this is not a self-guided tour. Tour begins at Kairos-Milwaukie United Church, 4790 SE Logus Road, Milwaukie. 1PM Saturday, February 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 begins outside the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Avenue. 10AM Tuesday, February 19. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
LA-Más
As part of the University of Oregon College of Design's Design-Plus lecture series comes this talk from Elizabeth Timme and Chazandra Kern of LA-Más, a non-profit urban design organization based in Los Angeles that helps lower-income and under-served communities shape their future through policy and architecture. LA-Más supports communities that are often underserved or overlooked by traditional planning and design initiatives. Through meaningful engagement and design, LA-Más helps create much needed, local, contextual change throughout Los Angeles. University of Oregon, White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch Street. 5:30PM Tuesday, February 19. Free.
Woodburn Success High School Tour
The Association for Learning Environments, a nonprofit organization devoted to improving the places where children learn, offers this tour of the Woodburn Success High School, an alternative education program serving Woodburn School District students in grades 10 through 12. Students complete the same high school graduation requirements as the students attending any other Oregon high school and earn a standard high school diploma. Designed by Opsis Architecture and opened in 2018, the project is envisioned as a model for creating small learning communities with a commitment to developing positive and productive partnerships with families. Woodburn Success High School, 610 Young Street, Woodburn. 4PM Wednesday, February 20. $15 (free for ALE members).
Secret Societies in Downtown Portland - Walking Tour
Fraternal lodges, also known as secret societies, played an important social role in Portland in the early 20th century. These organizations not only provided an active social outlet in the pre-electronic age, but also offered a financial safety net before government programs fulfilled that need. This Positively Portland walking tour will view six of these architecturally significant and historic fraternal buildings and have a brief look inside several: the Masonic Temple (1927), now known as the Mark Building and part of the Portland Art Museum; the Odd Fellows Building (1925), now known as Chaucer Court; the Masonic Lodge (1907), now known as the Pythian Building; the Elks Temple (1923) - now part of the Sentinel Hotel; the Neighbors of Woodcraft (1928), now the Tiffany Center; and the Scottish Rite Masonic Center (1902). Tour begins at the Miller Gallery, Mark Building, Portland Art Museum 1119 SW Park Avenue. 1PM Friday, February 22. $15.
Topographies of Memory: Examining the Boundaries of Memorial Sites
This edition of the Fridays@4 lecture series from Portland State University's School of Archiecture features Molly Esteve, a master's degree candidate and fellow in the Center for Public Interest Design Student Fellow. As the recent recipient of the 2018 L. Rudolph Barton Travel Fellowship, Esteve visited Alabama, Spain, and France to research how three memorials in these places, spanning almost a century, engage with and shape both territorial and temporal boundaries of memory. Esteve quotes Iana Friedrich Silber, who wrote, "A boundary is a theoretically telling metaphor that can capture emergent realities and provide an answer to the search for a new language in place of the obsolete.” Portland State University, Shattuck Hall, 1914 SW Park Avenue, Annex. 4PM Friday, February 22. Free.
Adaptive Re-use in Produce Row - Walking Tour
For well over a hundred years the Central East Side Industrial District was a hub for wholesale food distribution throughout the Pacific Northwest. In recent years, as this Positively Portland walking tour will demonstrate, this area of abandoned warehouses and crumbling brick structures has been transformed into a magnet for forward-looking entrepreneurs and an important job generating center on the East Side. Tour begins at Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Avenue. 1PM Saturday, February 23. $15.
Downtown Portland's North End Tour
This Architectural Heritage Center tour explores the abundant architectural and cultural history in the downtown neighborhood wedged between Old Town and the Pearl District. Along the way attendees will see 19th century gems like the Mariner’s Home building, which has recently been rehabilitated and turned into the Society Hotel. One will also learn how the area became New Chinatown, and later Japantown, while seeing landmark buildings like Union Station, the US Custom House, and a historic fire station. Tour meetup location to be announced. 10AM Tuesday, February 26. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
COTE Greenbag: Holistic System Thinking With Energy, Emissions & Refrigerants
As part of the continuing COTE Greenbag lecture series, hosted by the Committee on the Environment from the American Institute of Architects' Portland chapter, comes this look at the interconnections with energy use, energy sources, emissions and refrigerants, and the real global impact of design strategies and decisions. This presentation starts with a look typical sustainable energy goals and moves through to advances in the marketplace. Presenters David Mead and Karina Hershberg of PAE Consulting Engineers will uncover analysis of true environmental effects and the responses industry-wide to different measurements and perspectives. PAE Consulting Engineers, 522 SW Fifth Ave, 15th Floor. 12PM Wednesday, February 27. Free.
Architects Without Borders: Wellhead Charrette
AWB-Oregon's school projects in developing countries often include a well with a hand pump that serves the neighboring community in addition to the school. The pump is typically surrounded by a concrete apron, but overflow water creates mud and erosion in the immediate area. February's chapter meeting will be a charrette that seeks design solutions to improve the wellhead area. Architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, NGO representatives, students, and others are invited to participate. Bring your favorite tools: sketch pads and pencils or computers and VR glasses. Non-designers who have experience using community water sources are especially needed to contribute to the brainstorming process. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 5:30PM Wednesday, February 27. Free.
DoCoMoMo Oregon Modern Mixer
At this meet-and-greet for existing and potential future members of the Oregon chapter of modernist-preservation organization DoCoMoMo, one can learn about upcoming DOCO_OR events and programming, advocacy, and volunteer opportunities. Abigail Hall, 813 SW Alder Street. 5:30PM Thursday, February 28. Free.
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