Model Ideas

Model Ideas

Unlike models of finished buildings, this exhibition displays three-dimensional expressions of design thinking.

  • Shattuck Hall Room 235 (map)
Old Growth Architecture Exhibit

Old Growth Architecture Exhibit

Using artifacts and library materials from the Bosco-Milligan Foundation Collections, this exhibit will explore the use of wood in our region’s architecture, from pioneer days through the 1960s. Visitors will learn how important and prevalent wood was both economical and a source of shelter. You’ll also find that wood was once used for just about everything from plumbing fixtures to siding, and quite literally, everything in-between.

Free to members
$3 for general public

  • Architecture Heritage Center (map)
Street Seats Design Competition

Street Seats Design Competition

Designers from across the country will participate in a juried competition for a Street Seats freestanding pavilion to be created and installed during the 2013 Portland Design Festival.

  • Center for Architecture (map)
Perspective: The Moment Through a Lens

Perspective: The Moment Through a Lens

The first annual Center For Architecture photography exhibition features the work of local photographers Laurie Black, Richard Lishner, Michael Mather, David Papazian, and Josh Partee. The exhibit explores natural and built environments concerning the practice of framing urban visualscapes.

  • Center for Architecture (map)
Opening Night Party

Opening Night Party

The Opening Night Party will feature food, drinks and entertainment by Dig-A-Pony, Sweet Hereafter, and the Bye and Bye: three local establishments with a focus on Portland Design. 

  • Center for Architecture (map)
Architectural Details: Photography Tour

Architectural Details: Photography Tour

Explore Portland's striking building facades and architectural details through your camera lens! This two-hour walking tour will commence at the Center for Architecture, and will then guide you to the most photo-friendly structures around NW Portland.

Portland Open-Space Sequence

Portland Open-Space Sequence

The event will celebrate the famed landscape architect Lawrence Halprin’s “Portland Open-Space Sequence” – a series of four urban fountain plazas that culminate in the dramatic Forecourt Fountain(now called Keller Fountain) – described by New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable as “one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance”.

  • Location TBD (map)
The Future of the Portland Building

The Future of the Portland Building

Peter Meijer and Becca Cavell, co-founders of the Oregon Chapter of DoCoMoMo and leaders of two Portland architecture firms, will reprise a debate they first presented at a Modernism symposium in Florida earlier this year.

 

Designers' Confluence

Designers' Confluence

Please join us for a discussion with Los Angeles based, award winning designer Cory Grosser, SERA's Director of Interior Design Lisa Zangerle, and Principal Landscape Designer Mauricio Villarreal of Place.  Our guest speakers from multi-disciplinary design professions will discuss the importance of collaboration throughout the design process. A panel discussion will embrace the benefits of varying professional and cultural experiences which promote a more diverse perspective in designing for our region's changing culture and environment.

Please visit the Eventbrite page to RSVP. 

IIDA Members $10 

Student $5 

Non-Member $15

  • Ecotrust Building (map)
What is EGD today?

What is EGD today?

Join us for a presentation featuring a retrospective of environmental graphic design including prominent designers and projects.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland.

  • PSU, Smith Memorial Student Union, RM 236 (map)
Bright Idea: Lighting Design Discussion

Bright Idea: Lighting Design Discussion

Shaping space with light, playing with the qualities of transparency, refraction, reflection and color spectrum, this feature of lighting designs from regional artists, designers and makers will lead into and through the darkest months of the year.

  • Oregon College of Art and Craft (map)
Davis Street Residency: Featuring Jason Sturgill

Davis Street Residency: Featuring Jason Sturgill

MoCC is pleased to feature Jason Sturgill for October's Davis Street Residency. Join us at The Gallery Story, Museum of Contemporary Craft.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • The Gallery Store, Museum of Contemporary Craft (map)
Make It Happen: Randy Hunt on Design, Entrepreneurship, and Etsy

Make It Happen: Randy Hunt on Design, Entrepreneurship, and Etsy

Randy Hunt is the Creative Director at Etsy, where he leads a team of designers creating the end-to-end experience, both online and off. Hunt feels strongly that designers must be able to build what they design, a perspective that fits naturally with Etsy’s culture of making and the love of craftsmanship.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • Bison Building, Applied Craft + Design Studio (map)
Foundations In Type

Foundations In Type

Typography, the art of making language visible, has been central to the design trade since Gutenberg. But too many designers working today lack a formal education in typography. In this 90-minute workshop--with Barbara Scott of Scott Group and Final Eyes--we'll revisit the foundations, to help you design with greater purpose, clarity, and elegance.

Admission is free to members and students. 

$10 suggested donation for the general public. 

  • Center for Architecture (map)
Dissecting Design Presented by The Portland Advertising Federation

Dissecting Design Presented by The Portland Advertising Federation

Dissecting Design seeks to understand how great design is achieved using processes and design systems that take us from an understanding of client or consumer need to initial designs to iteration to the production of the final product.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • EcoTrust Building (map)
AFO Honored Citizen Dinner

AFO Honored Citizen Dinner

Join 600 colleagues to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of Benson Industries, an Oregon company that is a sought-after provider of custom systems for some of Oregon's and the world's most intricate and interesting buildings.

  • Oregon Convention Center (map)
Music as Universal Language

Music as Universal Language

Mark Ray (owner and executive creative director of NORTH, founder of Undertow Music Collective) and Dave Allen (NORTH’s Director of Interactive Strategies and bassist for post-punk band Gang of Four) will head up a panel discussing, among other things.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • NORTH HQ (map)
Ziba Panel Series: The Future of Retail

Ziba Panel Series: The Future of Retail

Businesses of all kinds are considering a shift from the commodity-oriented selling of goods to a more service-oriented selling of experiences. How will designers play a role in shaping retail’s future, and designing for it?

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • Ziba Auditorium (map)
Blurred Lines

Blurred Lines

A three-day immersive, interactive experience, Blurred Lines features installations by the region’s leading design studios, each creating interactions that incorporate light, sound, images, motion, culture and history.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • Refuge (map)
Film: “Pool Party” by Beth Aala

Film: “Pool Party” by Beth Aala

Beth Aala’s debut documentary is an inspiring and enjoyable tale of an urban renewal success story, charting an inevitable journey from decay to gentrification to commercialization.

  • Center for Architecture (map)
Design --> Community ---> Design

Design --> Community ---> Design

This Pecha Kucha style event is part of ASLA's reoccurring "Urban Green" series. The evening will bring together local designers of community projects to discuss the essential elements of their work and how design impacts communities.

  • Jack London Pub (map)
Designing Women Panel Discussion and Pecha Kucha

Designing Women Panel Discussion and Pecha Kucha

Co-sponsored by Bitch Magazine and Museum of Contemporary Craft, this event is a two-fold investigation into conversations relating to women in the field of design, both as creators and as consumers.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • Museum of Contemporary Craft (map)
Design on a Dime: How Artists and Designers Are Growing Economies, Cultures, and Equity in American Cities Quickly and Cheaply

Design on a Dime: How Artists and Designers Are Growing Economies, Cultures, and Equity in American Cities Quickly and Cheaply

Friday Forums give complex subjects relevance and clarity, and keep Oregonians informed about the most pressing issues of our time. City Club welcomes members and nonmembers to Friday Forums.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • The Governor Hotel (map)
75 Years of Creative Outdoors Gallery Show

75 Years of Creative Outdoors Gallery Show

Columbia Sportswear has been a part of the Portland design community for 75 years since 1938 and has created and produced some innovative technologies in the outdoor world, from hats, to ski jackets, to fishing vests. We want to celebrate Columbia’s artistic and talented design by curating a show that expresses our outdoor creativity.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • One Grand Gallery (map)
The Shape of Story

The Shape of Story

"The Shape of Story" is a technological framework designed to capture and visualize audience feedback in a theater setting. When coupled with content that encourages civic engagement, this technology has the potential to advance the role of journalism to share stories and information and to identify potential shifts in sentiments. Within a moderated setting, this framework can facilitate conversation and discourse to empower the community to have a voice on a local or national issue.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • Hollywood Theatre (map)
Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE

Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE

The evening will feature risk-taking 8 storytellers that you'll recognize from the design world including ADAM ARNOLD, KATE BINGAMAN-BURT, ARTHUR BRADFORD, NICOLE J. GEORGES, LEATHER STORRS and more announced soon!

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • Secret Society Ballroom (map)
Design Matters: A Tour of Exceptional Portland Homes

Design Matters: A Tour of Exceptional Portland Homes

This year's Design Matters: A Tour of Exceptional Portland Homes is focusing on small and smart homes designed by Portland Architects.  This one of a kind tour provides design enthusiasts with a rare glimpse into unique area residences designed by Architects. 

  • Center for Architecture (map)
The Future of Our Past: Annual Heritage Auction

The Future of Our Past: Annual Heritage Auction

Join us for an exciting evening honoring Portland's architectural achievements and the effort to protect them for future generations. Be a part of saving the architectural legacy of our city at our largest annual fundraiser. It is a fun evening and is considered the annual reunion for area preservationists.  The silent auction includes antiques, collectables, experiences and services for all budgets. The oral auction boasts local, regional and international getaways.

 

  • Melody Ballroom (map)
WeMake Celebrates

WeMake Celebrates

Join us to celebrate the process of making, the spirit of community and design in action. Proceeds from this event will go to support All Hands Raised First Octave, a grant to raise money for arts and music education in the under-served Portland and Multnomah schools.

Event listed in cooperation with our partners at Design Week Portland. 

  • Sandbox Studio (map)
The Art of Weaving: From Nepal, Pakistan, Turkey and Afghanistan

The Art of Weaving: From Nepal, Pakistan, Turkey and Afghanistan

Using handwoven carpets and textiles for hands-on demonstration, Atelier Lapchi along with an expert in contemporary weaving will give an informative talk on the different weaving techniques used in carpet production, as well as on the quality and sustainability of the materials used, dyes and dying techniques and how these practices vary from country to country.

Live the Revolution

Live the Revolution

In its fourth year, Live the Revolution is the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s annual evening of live storytelling to celebrate bicycling culture and design. Whether finding the perfect balance of form and function in a new bicycle frame, or crafting routes to work around existing bicycle facilities and infrastructure, bicyclists have deep, lived experience of design.

  • Clinton Street Theater (map)
An Evening With the Jury

An Evening With the Jury

An Evening With the Jury provides both members and the public to meeting leading architects from around the country and learn more about their work and their approach to design.

  • Center for Architecture (map)
Architecture Design Awards

Architecture Design Awards

Celebrate the best in Oregon architectural design at the 2013 AIA Portland Design Awards. Each year, AIA Portland assembles a nationally renowned group of architects to jury projects submitted by architecture firms across Oregon. Join us at the LeftBank Annex as winners are announced and toasted by the jury and their peers. Stay for the Portland Design Festival Closing Night Party!

Tickets will be available at www.aiaportland.org on 9/3

  • Leftbank Annex (map)
Closing Party

Closing Party

Join us at Leftbank Annex for Portland’s “festival season” after-party!

  • The Leftbank Annex (map)
Iñaki Alday: UNCLAD Lecture Series Presented by PSU School of Architecture

Iñaki Alday: UNCLAD Lecture Series Presented by PSU School of Architecture

Iñaki Alday is founder and principal with Margarita Jover of aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje, a multidisciplinary practice based in Barcelona, dedicated to the creation of public spaces, landscapes, and buildings, and focused on the integration of scales, non-traditional programs, and social and environmental ethics.

  • Shattuck Hall Annex (map)