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Wednesday, May 8

Thursday, May 9

Friday, May 10 Schedule

7am-8am

Breakfast
Oxford Ballroom
Sponsored by
Precision Images

Please Note: Both Thursday and Friday there will be a smaller breakfast available at McMenamins, starting at 8am. If you special ordered food, that is where it will be available.


8:30am-10:00am

Featured Speaker - Brett Randall Jones, AIA
McMenamins Theater
Sponsored by
AGS Stainless
1.5 AIA LU|HSW

"Design & Impact: 9 Ways to Make Housing for People"

Developed and proven over four decades of multifamily housing design, David Baker Architects' “9 Ways” are design principles that provide a thoughtful framework for making better housing. Flexible and human-centric, these community-oriented strategies work together to elevate a building, improve wellness and stability, and support social bonds. With extensive examples from the firm’s housing portfolio, Principal Brett Randall Jones, AIA will illustrate these accessible and straightforward strategies, which range from the large-scale “Reweave the Urban Fabric” to the intimate “Get Personal.” These strategies address opportunities available to housing at all scales and across all regions, and result in buildings that increase the quality of living for residents and neighbors alike. 


10am-11:00am

Session 7 - Balancing Trauma-Informed Design, Long-Term Durability, and Target Value Design in PSH
Oxford 1
Sponsored by IMAGINiT
1 AIA LU|HSW

The demand for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) continues to increase throughout Oregon, resulting in new developments and conversions of existing properties. While designing through a trauma-informed lens is a top focus for design teams, minimizing deficiencies and long-term durability and working with a client's budget are also of the utmost concern. This session will address design choices that create durable and budget-friendly PSH properties while considering the lived experience of residents. Focusing on two ongoing projects, Cleveland Commons, a new PSH development in Bend, and Bridges on Broadway, a Project Turnkey and adaptive reuse of a former Red Lion hotel to PSH in Eugene. Presented by Briana Manfrass of Pinnacle Architecture and Gary North of R&H Construction

Session 8 - Housing production innovations to increase impact on our Housing Crisis
Oxford 2
Sponsored by James Hardie
1 AIA LU|Elective

Prefabricated, factory-built housing’s time has finally come. The ‘early adopters’ for the last decade have taken risks, innovated, experimented, tested, failed, and sometimes succeeded. Thanks to them we have learned a lot, and are now in a more advanced implementation phase. Success in addressing our housing crisis starts with architects, starts with design innovation, and I encourage architects to familiarize themselves with the possibilities, many that will be discussed and explained in this session. Our on-going housing crisis and our governor’s ambitious goals for 36,000 units/year will not be solved with the existing production methodology. Architects can lead housing innovation.
Presented by Stuart Emmons, AIA of Emmons Design

Session 9 - Path House, a volumetric mass timber solution for our housing crisis
McMenamins Father Luke Room
Sponsored by HL Stearns
1 AIA LU|HSW

Integrating the myriad benefits of mass timber, including environmental benefits and constructability, together with a patented Smart Cassette system - the Path House vision is to dramatically lower the cost of housing in North America. Our country is over 4 million housing units short today and the number is growing daily. We need to, finally, apply the benefits of industrialized manufacturing to our housing challenge, otherwise the chasm will continue to grow.
Presented by Benjamin Kaiser of LSW Architects


11:00am-12:00pm

Annual Member Meeting
McMenamins Theater
Sponsored by
Neidermeyer Risk Management, a division of HUB International

Join your colleagues and fellow members from around the state to hear updates from your Board leadership, “State of the State” update from EVP / CEO Heather Wilson, and answer any questions about the AIA24 Annual Meeting items. Come discuss the proposed AIA Bylaws changes that will affect membership categories and review the candidates for National office. Attendees can even become certified to vote at the AIA24 Annual Meeting as certified delegates! Don’t miss your chance to comment or represent.

Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, CEO/Executive Vice Present of AIA, will join us to offer previews of the AIA24 Conference on Architecture in June. You won't want to miss this opportunity to meet and greet the institute's CEO.

If you cannot attend the ODC in person, you can still register to attend the Member Meeting virtually.


12pm-1:30pm

Lunch/Mentor Madness Event
McMenamins Theater
Sponsored by Marvin

Participants of the AIA Oregon Mentor Madness event will gather together during this lunch period for an in-person session.


2:00pm-3:30pm

Featured Speaker - Jaime Torres Carmona, AIA LEED AP
Oxford Ballroom
1 AIA LU|HSW
Sponsored by
AEP Span

Canopy - Architecture for People and Place: Active advocacy in affordable housing

In Chicago there is a growing sense of urgency in addressing the ever-present shortage of good affordable housing options throughout the city. Our firm Canopy works at the junction between policy making and advocacy through the design of environmentally- and socially-equitable housing. Through key project case studies this presentation will provide current examples of how a "people and place" centered approach to architecture is transcending the ways in which we can address issues of safety, belonging, and the environment through projects like Oso Apartments, UNAH, Encuentro and others.