Montana 12 by Architecture Building Culture (Reina Solunaya)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
Garthwick Neighborhood 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 meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Tuesday, June 18. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Tour of Marshall Elementary and McLoughlin Middle School
As part of the CSI Education Series from the Oregon chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute, attendees on this tour of Marshall Elementary and McLoughlin Middle School in Vancouver, designed by LSW Architects and part of CSI's Learning and Libations series, can learn about the complexity of joining cross-laminated timber with Tilt-up Concrete panels as well as the coordination involved with properly locating mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. The tour will be led by Larry Curran of Skanska, the schools' general contractor. Skanksa Trailer near 5802 Macarthur Boulevard, Vancouver, Washington. 3PM Tuesday, June 18. $10 ($5 for students).
Sprouting a Green School
Green and high-performance school buildings offer students and teachers healthy and productive learning spaces and deliver cost avoidance on utility expenses to put money back into classrooms. Delivering a green school requires an integrated design process, agreement of project goals, dynamic team communication and utilizing absolute energy targets to design and construct. During this interactive discussion, the second in the 2019 Growing A Green School discussion series from AIA Portland's Green Schools Committee, panelists will discuss stakeholder engagement, building assessment, design process, and technology applications used to guide their green school design projects. Moderated by Glumac chief sustainability strategist Nicole Isle, the panel will also include Energy Trust of Oregon outreach manager Elin Shepard, Oh Planning + Design principal Deb France, and Bassetti Architecture principal Joe Echeverri. Gensler, 811 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 300. 5PM Tuesday, June 18. Free.
InProcess: Pigeon Toe Ceramics and Architecture Building Culture
As part of the InProcess quarterly lecture series presented by AIA Portland, which explores the creative process of local architects, designers, makers, and creators, come presentations from Lisa Jones of Pigeon Toe Ceramics and Brian Cavanaugh of Architecture Building Culture. With an aversion to the excess of mass-produced goods, Jones formed Pigeon Toe in 2008 fresh out of art school with a vision to create uniquely beautiful objects grounded in American crafts and manufacturing. Her work has been featured in publications from Dwell and the New York Times to Sunset. With over 25 years of experience, Cavanaugh's firm has designed a variety of residential, hospitality and mixed-use projects around the Pacific Rim, winning local, regional/state and national awards from the AIA as well as the 2012 AIA Young Architects Award and the 2014 ABC AIA Northwest & Pacific Region Emerging Firm of the Year Award. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 5:30 PM Tuesday, June 18. Free.
Broadway and Mid-Town Tour
Beginning in the 1890s, the area downtown between Southwest Broadway and Ninth Avenue underwent a dramatic change from a residential neighborhood on the edge of town to a bustling commercial and cultural district. This Architectural Heritage Center tour takes a look at what are today some of the most well recognized and architecturally significant buildings in the city. Attendees will see the work of some of the premier Portland architects of the early 20th century, including A. E. Doyle, John V. Bennes and Morris Whitehouse, while also hearing stories about the city’s first public library and one-time park blocks that were lost to development. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Thursday, June 20. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Material Transparency PechaKucha
Hosted by the Oregon chapter of the International Interior Design Association, this event will include a rapid PechaKucha-style event (wherein presenters can show 20 slides for 20 seconds each) featuring subject experts who will cover a variety of topics including material transparency resources, software tools, and updates from local sustainability organizations. The presentations will provide a quick overview of how the Architecture and Design community can include material declarations into specifications, gain access to software and resources becoming standard in the industry. Grit Building Solutions, 919 SW Taylor Street, #800. 5:30PM Thursday, June 20. $20 (free for IIDA members and students).
Historic Laurelhurst Walking Tour
Laurelhurst is one of the most architecturally distinctive neighborhoods in Portland. With beginnings as a planned streetcar suburb, this area has a high concentration of early 20th century Arts and Crafts-influenced residences as well as some grand Colonial Revivals. This Positively Portland walking tour will include several landmark residences, including the the Doyle/Albee House (1913) and the Green/Bitar Mansion (1928). Tour begins at Petit Provence, 3420 NE Sandy Boulevard. 10AM Friday, June 21. $15.
Build Small, Live Large: ADU Tour
A self-guided tour of 17 accessory dwelling units sprinkled throughout the Portland area. Now in its sixth year, the tour is also a chance to meet the homeowners, builders, and designers who built them. Tour begins at Caravan - The Tiny House Hotel, 5009 NE 11th Avenue. 10AM Saturday, June 22. $30.
Historic Downtown Gresham Tour
The village of Gresham, originally known as "Campground", was a stop-over place for pioneers on the Oregon Trail in the last stage of their epic journey from the East. The village was later named for the US Postmaster who granted the small village a post office. By the turn of the 20th century the interurban railway connected Gresham to Portland and the population grew quickly. We'll start the walk with a tour of the Gresham Historical Society and then have a walk around downtown to look at the remaining historic commercial and residential buildings and speculate on what may be the future of this growing city. Tour begins at Gresham Historical Society, 410 N Main Avenue. 10AM Saturday, June 22. $15.
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 Saturday, June 22. $20 ($12 for AHC 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, June 22. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Montgomery Street Residences Lecture and Tour
The Pacific Northwest regional chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art plays host to a combined lecture, tour and drawing class over consecutive days. The event will begin with a lecture on French-American architecture by Stephen Chrisman, a principal at New York's Ferguson & Shamamian. The ensuing day's tour will focus on historic period houses from the era of American Beaux Arts eclecticism, beginning with a private viewing of the A.J. Lewthwaite house, desugbed in the French Renaissance Louis XVI style by Albert Parr & Francis Ward of San Francisco and completed in 1926. Other residences on the tour will include the circa-1922 Tudor-style Max S. Hirsch residence by Ellis Lawrence, the elegant Jacobethan-style Leon Hirsch residence from 1922 by Sutton & Whitney, the Colonial-style William P. Hawley residence by Lawrence from 1927, A.E. Doyle's English Cottage-style Coleman Wheeler residence by from 1923, and Doyle's Jacobethan masterpiece, the Frank J. Cobb residence from 1917. Lecture will be held at Emerick Architects, 321 SW Fourth Avenue, Suite 200. 5PM Saturday, June 22. Tour begins at 1715 SW Montgomery Drive. 10:30AM Sunday, June 23. Free.
Portland Heights and Vista Avenue Tour
This Architectural Heritage Center tour explores Portland Heights, a mostly residential Southwest Portland neighborhood with Vista Avenue running through its center. It was once a very difficult area to build in, or even get to, before it became a popular residential district, as transportation options increased in Portland during the late 19th century. Today the mixture of homes, ranging in style from Colonial Revival to Art Deco, is a veritable “who’s who” of Portland architects and their masterworks. Attendees will see homes designed by the likes of A.E. Doyle, Emil Schacht, Edgar Lazarus, and Morris Whitehouse. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Tuesday, June 25. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Garden + Lecture Series: Steve Bloom
As Part of the Portland Japanese Garden's Garden + Lecture Series, CEO Steve Bloom will share insights and stories from his recently-completed residency in Japan and beyond. During six months in late 2018 and early 2019, Bloom visited gardens and arts organizations in Japan, Singapore, Brazil, China, and the United Kingdom: telling the story of the Garden, building new connections, and seeking opportunities for collaboration and exchange. He’ll reflect on what he learned and on new ways that the Garden can build on its role of facilitating understanding to make the world a more tranquil and peaceful place. Portland Japanese Garden, 611 SW Kingston Avenue. 4:30PM Tuesday, June 25. $20 ($15 for Portland Japanese Garden members).
Cascadia Clusters: Building By and For the Homeless
The Oregon chapter of Architects Without Borders welcomes Rafael Toma Solano, project manager and trainer with Cascadia Clusters, a nonprofit general contractor that trains homeless individuals in framing, roofing, insulating, and finish carpentry. Solano will discuss Cascadia Clusters' role in the development of Agape Village, a self-governed community of tiny homes for the houseless, and other local projects, and will highlight design and building lessons learned, as well as the goals and process of Cascadia Clusters' training program. AIA Center for Architecture, 403 NW 11th Avenue. 6PM Wednesday, June 26. Free.
Refresh at Providence Park
Originally Multnomah Field, the stadium now known as Providence Park has been a part of the Portland cityscape since 1893. It first became a stadium in 1923 in a design by the great A.E. Doyle, and has undergone numerous name changes and renovations through the years. The latest update, designed by Allied Works, includes a multi-tier, vertical wall that puts viewers on top of the action, enhancing the stadium’s already legendary atmosphere. This Architecture Foundation of Oregon fundraiser offers a stadium tour and the chance to hear about the re-design of this Portland icon from Providence Park’s new Duracell Deck. Providence Park, 1844 SW Morrison Street. 4:30 PM Thursday, June 27. $60 ($45 for AFO members, $15 for volunteers in the AFO's Architects In Schools program).
Lair Hill Neighborhood Tour
It turns out that Lair Hill is not named for a hill. Named for pioneering Portland lawyer and newspaper editor William Lair Hill, this residential neighborhood and subject of an Architectural Heritage Center tour is one of Portland’s oldest. Lair Hill contains a fascinating mix of historic homes, along with notable buildings significant for their connections to the city’s early immigrant populations. It’s also a neighborhood that was impacted by urban renewal and freeway development. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 6PM Thursday, June 27. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
South Park Blocks 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. 10AM Saturday, June 29. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
Willamette Heights Neighborhood Tour
Some of Portland’s most notable architects, including Emil Schacht, designed homes in Willamette Heights, an area that borders the site of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition. This Architectural Heritage Center tour is strenuous walk through this hilly neighborhood. Tour meetup location revealed with ticket purchase. 10AM Saturday, June 29. $20 ($12 for AHC members).
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