AIGA Postcard Exchange
Join us for a year-end postcard exchange! We're on a mission to brighten these short, winter days with a little bit of joy via snail mail. Join AIGA Portland for […]
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Thermal Continuity of the Building Skin
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January 2021 Monthly Meeting Time: Jan 5 2021 - 12:00pm - 1:15pm Meeting Title: Thermal Continuity of the Building Skin: Detail-Level Insight into The Balance of Thermal Separation and Structural Support Location: Live […]
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Competition Kickoff Meeting: Los Angeles Low Rise Housing Design Challenge
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email [email protected] for the Zoom link
We're looking for architects, designers, landscape architects and engineers to join us on Zoom to get started on AWB's entry for Low Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles. This design challenge, organized by the Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles, asks architects and landscape architects to help imagine thoughtful new models of low-rise, multi-unit housing informed by community input and concern for affordability, flexibility, sustainability, and public health.
We plan to form a team from the group that attends the meeting, but a commitment to the longer-term work is not necessary for participation in the kickoff. If you can work cross-platform in Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, and/or Rhino, that will be helpful to the team effort, going forward.
Before the meeting, please review the project brief and familiarize yourself with the material on the Low Rise website.
Urban Design Panel: Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge
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What could the future Burnside Bridge look like? Portland’s aging downtown bridges are not expected to withstand a major earthquake. That’s why Multnomah County is taking the lead on making […]
Kalama Elementary School Tour
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Nestled in the hillside of its community, Kalama Elementary School is a new K-5 replacement elementary school that attempts to answer the question, “How do you create a new contemporary […]
We have a Winner! Virtual BINGO – January Chapter Meeting
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We have a Winner! Join us for virtual B - I - N - G - O!
Fat-Free Gracewriting
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Wimpy writing just doesn't get results! Gracewriting® teaches you to write with power by being clear, concise and correct. We help you write with grace by putting your reader's needs first.
In today’s lightning-fast business environment, no one has time to read wordy emails, confusing reports or jargon-filled letters. It’s just good business to write succinctly and correctly, creating energized documents that connect with the reader.This Graceworks workshop involves a lot more than putting pen to paper. We interact. We experience. We compete. What does that have to do with better writing? Everything! Be ready to be big and bold as you experience Gracewriting®.
Learning Objectives
Make the Human Connection® by putting your reader first. It’s not about you; it’s all about them!
Tap into the power of the English language by replacing weak verbs, nouns and adjectives with strong action verbs. Powerful language is persuasive language.
Write to express ideas in a simple, clear manner by eliminating time-wasters like unnecessary.
Keynote Speaker
Judy Straalsund, Freedom Finder with Graceworks, has served firms ranging from HOK and Skanska to Hewlett Packard and the Portable Sanitation Association (i.e., the “Porta-Potty” folks) for more than 20 years. Providing creative solutions for a variety of programs, Judy is a dynamic combination of experienced presentation coach, corporate trainer, artistic director, and mountaineering guide. She’s a born leader who helps people achieve their best.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Judy also heads up our Gracewriting® Division. A published author and playwright, Judy is a master storyteller who also provides copyediting and quality assurance services for firms like Kodak, Nike and Intel. To top it off, she’s a trained practitioner of Whole Brain® Thinking and would love to talk with you about writing proposals with your whole brain!
Judy is geeky about everything from prepositions and punctuation to persuasive writing and corporate presentations. She’d love to help you find your inner geek too!
Tickets
$0.00 Member Registration
$15.00 Non-Member Registration
AIA Oregon 2030 Working Group
Virtual Event
Join AIA Oregon for a discussion on how Oregon firms are tracking and meeting Architecture 2030 goals through AIA’s Design Data Exchange (DDx) reporting tool. The AIA 2030 Commitment is […]
Healthcare, the Built Environment, and the Surfaces that Surround Us
Virtual Event
Register NOW to receive your virtual invitation LINK to join us for a Continuing Education opportunity from Wilsonart and EB Bradley Company Thursday, January 21st from 12pm- 1pm with product sharing from Wilsonart Engineered Surfaces. CEU […]
IIDA Oregon Chapter – 2021 NCIDQ Roundtable_Tickets
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Considering taking the NCIDQ exam? Come learn from our Oregon NCIDQ Ambassador! This virtual presentation will provide an overview of the NCIDQ Exam, including eligibility, application and in-depth review of […]
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South Portland, South Auditorium, and the Architecture of Postwar Ambition
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South Portland, South Auditorium, and the Architecture of Postwar Ambition
01/23/2021 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PT
Category
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Admission
$15.00
Description
FREE for AHC Members! (must log in to your account when registering)
South Portland, on the edge of downtown, is perhaps the most potent example of how architecture makes the image of the city. At first a transitional neighborhood, the area became the site of the city's first implemented urban renewal project, South Auditorium. More than eighty acres were condemned and cleared by the then-new Portland Development Commission. The resulting buildings introduced a new, modernist form of urbanism that forever changed the cityscape. While historians sometimes discuss South Auditorium as a local example of American postwar city planning trends, relatively few give attention to the ways that architecture shaped decision-making, and how South Auditorium was a unique kind of urban renewal rooted not in perceived urban problems, but in urban ambitions.
Alexander Benjamin Craghead will relate an unconventional, cultural history of South Portland's architecture, revealing collisions of power, imagination, and urban self-image. Craghead is a historian of technology, representation, and landscape, and holds a Ph.D. in architecture from U.C. Berkeley, where he presently teaches in the program in American Studies. Alex's talk will place a significant emphasis on four distinct ways that architecture in South Portland both shaped, and was shaped by, postwar notions of what makes a good city. You will learn how opportunism and architectural anxieties led to urban renewal, how the city's ambitions fit within the context of national trends and regional rivalries, and how Portland's civic leaders sought to make South Auditorium a re-founding that would change the city's image both for itself and for the outside world. Throughout, architecture was virtually personified, as if it sat in a seat of power alongside planners, developers, city commissioners, and mayors, shaping decisions at every level.
This talk is in conjunction with our current exhibit South Portland and the Long Shadow of Urban Renewal.
Image: Promotional view of Portland Center, part of the South Auditorium Urban Renewal Area. c.1965. AHC Library.
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Meet our Van Evera Bailey Fellows!
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You're invited to a special lunchtime event to celebrate AFO's latest Van Evera Bailey Fellow and hear from last year's fellows about their projects! Please join us at this event […]