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AIA Committee on Design Conference Oct 6 – 9, 2016 Portland, Oregon AIA Committee on Design Conference Oct 6 – 9, 2016 Portland, Oregon 3 The AIA Committee on Design would like to acknowledge the following TABLE OF CONTENTS sponsors for their generous support of the 2016 AIA COD conference. Welcome Letter 7 PLATINUM Conference Co-Chairs 8 Conference Schedule 11 Tour Sites 21 Dining Recommendations 47 GOLD Notes 53 4 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR Dear COD Members, I am very excited to welcome you few days that will take us to a diverse to the City of Portland for this year’s range of projects, including Alvar domestic conference. Portland Aalto’s Mount Angel Library, recent currently enjoys the reputation as projects by some of Portland’s best one of the more livable and vibrant firms including, Allied Works, Skylab, cities in the country and recently was ZGF and Holst Architects and we will selected by Metropolis magazine as conclude with a visit to the almost one of the 10 best cities in the world. completed Japanese Pavilion by Kengo Kuma. The COD last visited Portland over 30 years ago, shortly after Michael I have really enjoyed the opportunity Graves’ iconic Portland Building was and honor to serve as the 2016 completed. Since the COD’s last visit, Chair of the COD and would like to Portland has undergone a major thank everyone who attended our transformation that has been guided international conference in Havana, by both the planning efforts of the the awards reception in Philadelphia 1970s and 1980s as well as a major and our conference here in Portland. investment in public transportation and alternative transportation I hope you enjoy the conference! infrastructure. I have been very grateful for the time and effort of our local co-chairs in organizing this conference. Doug Philip L. Laird, AIA, LEED AP Benson, FAIA, Jeff Yrazabal, AIA and President Dave Otte, AIA have put together a ARC / Architectural Resources tightly packed itinerary over the next Cambridge Inc. 6 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR WELCOME | 7 “I have seen a lot of scenery in my life, but I have seen nothing so tempting Conference Co-Chairs as a home for a man than this Oregon country. You have a basis here for civilization on its highest scale, and I am going to ask you a question which you may not like. Are you good enough to have this country in your possession? Have you got enough intelligence, imagination and cooperation among you to make the best use of these opportunities?” Lewis Mumford, address to the Portland City Club, 1938 We couldn’t be more excited to light-rail right through the middle of share our home with you. Walk downtown. These are bold ideas that Jeff Yrazabal, AIA, LEED BD+C Dave Otte, AIA down Portland’s streets or wander come from working together for the our Oregon countryside today and common good, and it is the legacy we Jeff is President at SRG with 17 Dave is a principal with Holst it isn’t hard to sense what Lewis are excited to help bridge to the next years of experience in architecture, Architecture with over 20 years Mumford was describing. From that generation of designers in our region. and has been a proud resident of of experience in the design and first decision in 1845 to create ever- Portland for his entire career. SRG is construction industry. Skilled in walkable 200-foot city blocks to Portland is not a place for remarkable currently designing several notable conceptual visioning, he pursues 2015 when we opened a major bridge buildings, but rather a city where projects in our region, including the elegant solutions to his clients’ for every conceivable mode of transit we build remarkable places. We are new Multnomah County Courthouse complex programmatic needs, other than the automobile, Portland the in-between from a multitude in downtown Portland, the Knight remaining dedicated to architecture does things differently in ways that of voices, the fabric knitted by Cancer Research Building for OHSU that is modern, appropriate, improve the built environment and generations of careful practitioners on the South Waterfront, and a and sustainable. enrich the human experience. that love their city and the land. So renovation and expansion of the join us as we take you on a tour of the iconic Hayward Field at the University Dave’s focus at Holst is social impact An important part of what makes past, present, and future of design of Oregon. by design, helping create affordable Portland unique is our interconnected in Portland. We hope you love it as housing and services for Oregon’s design community. It is this sense of much as we do. Jeff is a past AIA Portland President, most vulnerable citizens. He is also community that has always driven our AIA Portland Committee on the an active member of the architecture spirit of innovation and our unwavering Keep Portland Weird, Environment’s Co-Chair, and served community. After helping design collaboration. Because we have never as the Young Architect Regional the PDX Center for Architecture and been a city of riches, those before Director of the AIA Northwest & serving as an AIA Portland board us leveraged this collaboration Pacific Region. His work for both SRG member and volunteer, he was elected and began a legacy as a city of Jeff Yrazabal, AIA and the broader community focuses AIA Portland President in 2015. ideas. Preserve a pristine gorge for on advocacy, design excellence, generations to come. Build a waterfront and fostering strategic partnerships park instead of a highway. Turn a that will serve the built and natural parking lot into a piazza, and run Dave Otte, AIA environment for years to come. 8 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR CO-CHAIRS | 9 COMMITTEE THANK YOU Pacific Northwest College of Art MEMBERS Allied Works Dave Otte, AIA Tsilli Pines Holst Architecture Colleen Bastendorff Director, Program & Services Design Week Portland Doug Benson, FAIA Coordinator, AIA Portland Merryman Barnes Pioneer Courthouse Architects Anthony Belluschi, FAIA Square Jeff Yrazabel, AIA Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Portland Art Museum SRG Partnership Leslie Boll SERA Rod Ashley, AIA SRG Partnership Roderick Ashley Jon Schleuning, FAIA Architect BORA Founding Partner, GBD Architects SRG Partnership Hacker Skylab Architecture Robert Hastings, FAIA SRG Partnership, Inc Conference Agency Architect Tri Met Paddy Tillett, FAIA Schedule Robert Hoffman William Tripp, AIA AIA Executive Director, AIA Portland Br. Alcuin Walch, Mount Angel Abbey Holst Architecture Wieden+Kennedy Deborah Kafoury Commission Chair, William Wilson, AIA Multnomah County Works Partnership Lever Architecture Mike Zilis, ASLA MGA&D ZGF Brian Newman 10 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR SECTION | 11 2016 AIA COD Conference: Panel Introduction Day 1: Thursday, Oct 6 The story of Portland’s emergence in the early efforts to define our city's 6 AM as one of the nation’s most livable future and continues to be an active cities began as a collaborative participant today. 7 and spirited conversation among a dedicated group of architects, Multnomah County Commission planners, business people, politicians Chair Deborah Kafoury, 8 and citizens around issues of this Commissioner Kafoury grew up in place, livability and community in Portland where her parents held 9 the early 1970’s. So, it is appropriate public office. As a community activist, public service advocate that the Committee on Design’s 10 Portland Conference also begin and elected official, Commissioner with a conversation. Tonight five Kafoury has been at the center of our 11 individuals representing a similar community’s conversations about spectrum of interests and skills will livability and our future. engage in a discussion that will 12 PM briefly touch on the beginnings of Tsilli Pines, Tsilli is the co-founder and Director of Design Week our city’s transformation of the public 1 1 – 6 PM realm, move into a deeper discussion Portland, an annual event focused on Conference Registration of the significant work underway and Portland’s creative community across 2 Hotel Lucia all disciplines. She is also the host of its impacts, and end with thoughts 400 SW Broadway about the challenges we face in the Creative Mornings. Tsilli is an inspired 3 near and long term future. Tonight’s leader in efforts focused on Portland’s panelists are: emergence as a creative hub. 4 4 – 5:30 PM Robert Hastings, FAIA, As Agency Dave Otte, AIA, As a principal with COD Annual Meeting Architect for our local transit agency, Holst Architecture Dave is deeply 5 AIA, CFA Tri Met, Bob has been intimately involved in a diverse range of 5:30 – 8 PM involved in the development of the Portland projects from community 6 Welcoming Reception & Panel Discussion significant transit infrastructure that service facilities to affordable and Location: is a foundation of Portland’s livability. transitional housing across Portland. AIA Portland, Center for Architecture Dave is also a long time leader in 7 403 NW 11th Ave (corner of NW 11th & Flanders) Jon Schleuning, FAIA, Jon is the AIA Portland and was the principal founding partner of SRG Partnership architect of AIA Portland’s Center for 8 Dinner on your own Architects and was a key participant Architecture. (Suggestions included on p. 48) 9 PM 12 | 2016 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | PORTLAND, OR CONFERENCE SCHEDULE | 13 2016 AIA COD Conference Schedule Day 2: Friday, Oct 7 6 AM 7 7:30 – 11:30 AM 8 Pearl District Walking Tour Start at Hotel Lucia 9 400 SW Broadway 10 11 11:30 AM – 1 PM 12 PM Lunch Bridgeport Brewing Company, 1318 NW Northrup St 1 BUS / TRAVEL 1:15 – 2:30 PM 2 Cultural / Government District Walking Tour BUS / TRAVEL 3 3 – 5:30 PM South Waterfront District Walking Tour 4 5 BUS DROP-OFF AT HOTEL LUCIA 6 Dinner on your own (Suggestions included on p.