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AIA 2012 COTE Top Green Buildings Panel

Wednesday, September 26, 6:00 pm
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Join the University of Oregon in Portland Department of Architecture as we bring together leaders from the three Portland-based architectural firms who received the AIA 2012 COTE Top Ten Green Project award, Opsis Architecture, THA Architecture and Hennebery Eddy Architects. The [...]

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Opening Night Party

Thursday, September 27, 6:30 pm
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Join fellow design enthusiasts at the opening night party for the 2012 Portland Architecture + Design Festival! The night will provide a glimpse of the month’s myriad events and activities, including a homes tour, design awards, film screenings, lectures, and [...]

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GlassFab: Collaborations in Glass exhibition

Wednesday, October 3, 5:30 pm
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Bullseye Glass Company operates a research studio where architects, designers and artists from around the world execute leading-edge projects in kilnformed glass. In conjunction with AIA’s A+D Festival, Bullseye Gallery will present a survey of recent collaborations. The exhibition will [...]

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GlassFab: Collaborations in Glass

Wednesday, October 3, 5:30 pm
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Bullseye Glass Company operates a research studio where architects, designers and artists from around the world execute leading-edge projects in kilnformed glass. In conjunction with AIA’s A+D Festival, Bullseye Gallery will present a survey of recent collaborations. Join us for [...]

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Ecto-Paraprism, Installation by Jordan Tull

Thursday, October 4, 5:30 pm
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Ecto-Paraprism is a flexible crystalline facade that feeds off the existing core of AIA PDX. The installation explores transparency, reflection and ownership in a dynamic relationship between host architecture and parasitic intervention. Ecto-Paraprism redefines and dominates an existing structural facade to provide a [...]

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Lecture by Dan Wood of WORKac, New York

Thursday, October 4, 6:00 pm

Dan Wood is principal and co-founder of WORKac, a New York City-based firm developing architectural and urban planning projects that engage issues of culture and consciousness, nature and artifice, surrealism and pragmatism. The firm’s practice extends from the United States, to Russia, and China, [...]

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Electrifying Times: Streetcars and the Building of Portland

Saturday, October 6, 10:00 am
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“Better Living Through Electricity” Portland is often called the City of Bridges, but has recently been called Streetcar City. This is due not only to our new streetcars, but to preservation of many of the land patterns from the streetcar [...]

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IIDA October Forum – Perspectives in Design, A Panel Discussion

Monday, October 8, 5:30 pm

This is an opportunity to engage with local leaders in the field of design. A panel of compelling members of the Portland design community will be gathered to discuss the integral role collaboration plays in the emerging multi-disciplinary design industry.

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Film: Detroit Wild City

Tuesday, October 9, 6:00 pm
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French filmmaker Florent Tillon’s 2010 documentary Detroit Wild City (Detroit ville sauvage) offers a poetic portrait of the dystopian ‘Motor City’ where ‘grass is growing in parking lots’ and building after building is crumbling apart. The film shows suffocating images of the Renaissance [...]

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GoodWeave

Thursday, October 11, 5:00 pm
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Lapchi and Oregon Home Magazine are proud to host an evening with GoodWeave at Atelier Lapchi in Portland, with a special presentation and reception with GoodWeave Executive Director, Nina Smith. Also speaking at the open-to-the-public-event will be Lapchi Artistic Director, [...]

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Knowledgeable and Socially Responsible Purchasing in the Hand-woven Carpet Industry Bourbon and Beer Reception

Friday, October 12, 3:30 pm
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Presentation by Nina Smith, Executive Director, GoodWeave and Andrew Neave, Artistic Director of Lapchi, LLC. Bourbon and Beer reception to follow with Burnside Bourbon courtesy of local distillery, Eastide Distilling This important and thought-provoking presentation will cover key aspects to [...]

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Greek Revival Style in the Oregon Territory,1839-1859

Saturday, October 13, 10:00 am
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Humble as it was, the fledgling Oregon Territory participated in the international and national architectural style of the Greek Revival. The style was part of the continuum of the Renaissance, begun in Italy in the fifteenth century, continued through Europe [...]

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ASLA Oregon Design Awards

Saturday, October 13, 6:00 pm

ASLA OREGON CHAPTER 2012 DESIGN AWARDS The ASLA Oregon Design Awards program celebrates professional and student excellence by recognizing the firms, individuals and agencies responsible for outstanding works of landscape architecture and environmental planning that promote an enhanced quality of [...]

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Film: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

Tuesday, October 16, 6:00 pm
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The film traces the rise of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. Portrayed are Foster’s origins and how his dreams and influences inspired the design of [...]

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Material Computation, A Lecture by Achim Menges

Tuesday, October 16, 6:00 pm
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Join the University of Oregon in Portland Department of Architecture as we welcome Achim Menges, architect and professor at the Institute for Computational Design | University of Stuttgart. A pioneer in construction innovation, Achim Menges will discuss how material characteristics can drive architectural form. Rather [...]

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COTE PechaKucha – PNW: Sustainable Inspirations

Thursday, October 18, 5:30 pm
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Sustainability is rooted in place.  And the Northwest is our place.  Join the AIA Portland Committee on the Environment for a PechaKucha event that looks at what sustainability means to design professionals, community members, educators, artists, fathers, mothers, sons and [...]

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2012 IIDA IDEAwards

Thursday, October 18, 6:00 pm
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PSU Dept of Architecture: Lecture by Dave Heater of Ankrom Moisan

Friday, October 19, 4:00 pm

Each Friday at 4pm, the students, faculty and community of the Portland State University Department of Architecture converge on the Shattuck Hall Annex to hear the remarks of notable architects, artists, designers, landscape architects, academics and fellow students about their [...]

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17th Annual “Riches of a City” Heritage Auction 2012

Saturday, October 20, 7:00 pm
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A year-long celebration of the Twenty-Fifth anniversary of the Bosco Milligan Foundation begins on Saturday, October 20, at the Melody Ballroom, in Portland. The kick-off event is the annual “Riches of the City,” dinner/auction, which for 17 years has been [...]

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City Club Citizens Read

Monday, October 22, 6:30 pm
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The City Club Citizens Read October selection is Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture. Norman Foster is a phenomenon – as an architect, but also as an individual. He is responsible for a dozen or more of the most recognizable [...]

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Compositional Theories Presentation by Rick Potestio, AIA

Wednesday, October 24, 5:00 pm
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Compositional Theories – Underlying Principles Derived from Nature Local architect and AIA member, Rick Potestio will demonstrate the use of proportion, order, pattern, symmetry, and geometry in design composition using examples taken from nature, architecture, rug designs and his own artwork. [...]

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An Evening With the Jury

Thursday, October 25, 5:30 pm

Every year AIA Portland assembles a nationally renowned group of architects for its Design Awards program. An Evening With The Jury provides both members and the public an opportunity to meet leading architects from around the country and learn more [...]

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35 Milestones of Preservation in Oregon: A Celebration

Thursday, October 25, 5:30 pm
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This year the Historic Preservation League of Oregon turns 35 and they will mark the occasion with a celebration of 35 milestones that have shaped the historic preservation movement here in Oregon. From rehabilitation projects to citizen campaigns, legislation to [...]

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Build Small | Live Large Housing Summit

Friday, October 26, 8:00 am
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The 2012 Build Small | Live Large Housing Summit will gather leaders in the development, real estate, building and design sector from across the bioregion for an intensive day of inspiration, project case studies and peer-to-peer learning. Industry professionals will [...]

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PortlandDesignmiX/AIA Design Awards

Friday, October 26, 7:30 pm
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PortlandDesignmiX: an evening of celebration, conversation, food and spirits. Celebrate the best in local architectural design, then mingle through architectural follies* created by designers and artists. Tickets only $50 Who will you invite? 7:30 pm doors open 8:00 pm program [...]

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Architecture Foundation of Oregon 2012 Honored Citizen Dinner Honoring Phil & Penny Knight

Monday, October 29, 5:30 pm
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Phil and Penny Knight may well be our most generous and recognized contributors to Oregon’s designed and built environment. The Architecture Foundation of Oregon invites you to join in paying tribute to the Knights as AFO’s 2012 Honored Citizens. Recognizing [...]

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Film: Grand Paris

Tuesday, October 30, 6:00 pm
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In 2008, French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced his idea of Le Grand Paris. A resolutely ambitious project dreamt up by Sarkozy, Le Grand Paris calls for a sustainable, post-Kyoto ecological city embracing, rather than fighting, nature. The Paris of today [...]

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EcoDistricts Summit Keynote

Wednesday, October 31, 6:00 pm
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Carol Coletta, who was recently named as one of the world’s top-50 experts on urban innovation, will bring her fresh ideas to Portland as the keynote speaker at the 4th annual EcoDistricts Summit, hosted by the Portland Sustainability Institute. Coletta has dedicated her [...]

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