2023 AIAO Program Archive
Recordings and Documents from Past AIAO Events. You can see all AIA Oregon recordings at our Vimeo Page.
CE that was available at the time of presentation is not available for the recordings.
12.19.23
Urban Design Panel 12.19.23 - Montgomery Park to Hollywood (MP2H) NW Plan In this month’s Urban Design Panel, we hear from the City of Portland on the Montgomery Park to Hollywood (MP2H) NW Plan.
The MP2H NW Plan is a long-range plan for the area in Northwest Portland between NW Nicolai and Vaughn streets, west of Highway 30. The plan proposes to transition the industrial and employment area into a climate-friendly, transit-oriented future mixed-use district that includes opportunity for new employment, housing, and services. These changes would complement a planned extension of Portland Streetcar to Montgomery Park, via NW 23rd Avenue and NW Wilson/Roosevelt streets. In addition to new zoning regulations, the MP2H-NW Plan will apply the Design overlay zone to much of the area.
City staff are now creating a “character statement” for the plan area to help guide future projects that will be subject to design review. Staff is seeking feedback from the UDP, and other community members, on the draft character statement for the area.
Montgomery Park to Hollywood Transit and Land Use Development Study The broader website on the M2H Project at portland.gov
12.13.23
Digital Design Series - AIA Presents: Holst Holst Architecture presents their 2022 Oregon Architecture Awards Winners: Merit Award Recipient Hearth, and Honor Award Recipient Seaside Civic and Convention Center
12.06.23
Digital Design Series - AIA Presents: Fieldwork Design & Architecture Cornell Anderson and Tonia Hein, co-founders and principals at Portland, Oregon and Samsø, Denmark based Fieldwork, will discuss their Northwest Functional Neurology project, recipient of a 2022 AIA Oregon Architecture Awards Honor Award, as well as three other of their recent award-winning projects.
11.29.23
Digital Design Series - AIA Oregon Presents!: Waechter No matter the project type, Waechter Architecture endeavors to create clear, compelling, and cost-effective architecture that transforms complex conditions into buildings of elemental beauty and enduring value. Principal Ben Waechter, FAIA will present two of the firm’s critically acclaimed and award-winning projects, both completed in 2022: The Mississippi Workshop, Waechter’s mixed-use, mass timber headquarters in Portland, and Rockwood Village, a 224-unit affordable housing community in Gresham.
The presentation will share specific lessons from these projects, thoughts on designing successful workplace, mixed-use, and multifamily housing projects, and equally, insights into Waechter’s creative process and firm-wide commitment to clarity.
11.21.23
November Urban Design Panel In this presentation we will get an update on the I-5 Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR), presented by IBR Assistant Program Administrator Ray Mabey and Nolan Lienhart on the urban design team.
The Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) program is currently studying the regionally endorsed Modified Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act to better understand the potential benefits and impacts. The Modified LPA proposes conceptual elements to be studied and may be further refined as a result of the environmental evaluation and public input.
The IBR team has initiated a holistic conceptual urban design process to reflect the IBR program's Purpose and Need and Vision and Values as informed by the Equity and Climate Frameworks and the community's values and priorities.
11.16.23
Small Firms Exchange Monthly Meeting - Tailoring your message to your multiple client types Julie Flattery, copywriter/marketing consultant and founder of Deconstructed Workshops, will be presenting on strategies small firms can employ to tailor your message to your multiple client types. With a background working in a variety of architecture firms leading their marketing & business development efforts, Julie brings a wealth of experience on how to verbally communicate your unique value. Deconstructed Workshops is best known for its signature workshop, The Art of Proposal Creation, which aims to empower individuals & staff to uplevel their skills around responding succinctly & successfully to RFP/Q’s.
11.15.23
Digital Design Series - AIA Oregon Presents!: SRG Partnership The new 50,000 gsf STEAM building on the growing Oregon State University-Cascades campus in Bend, Oregon serves as the prototype for future net-zero campus expansion, beginning implementation of OSU’-Cs Long-Range Development Plan and providing an adaptable and scalable framework for future buildings. The design, with a daylight-tuned façade and a mass timber structure, solidifies OSU-Cascades’ identity in Bend. Informed by the unique topography of its site, the building’s dynamic indoor/outdoor environment supports numerous activities and events, engaging people through classroom, laboratory and maker spaces, as well as a formal amphitheater and an informal cascading plaza for gathering. Highly flexible interior academic spaces are organized on a modular grid, which will allow for future program adaptation and redistribution.
11.08.23
COTE Digital Design Series 11.08.23 - PAE Living Building and SERA Office Remodel: Post Occupancy & Lessons Learned Join us for results and lessons learned from the first year of operation at the PAE Living Building. The world’s first developer-driven Living Building, the PAE Living Building is a 5-story, 58,500 square foot mixed use building that demonstrates replicable and cost-effective solutions for sustainable design in Oregon. Learn the challenges and surprises the first year of operation offered, and how to remove barriers to entry for future highly sustainable projects.
Then learn about SERA’s post-occupancy efforts after a year of working in their new human-centered, high performance office on the top floor of the Galleria. To date, SERA’s office has secured a LEED Platinum certification and is also in pursuit of WELL certification, Living Building Core certification including the ambitious Materials Petal, and ILFI Zero Carbon certification. Beyond covering lessons learned about the office’s performance one year in, including efforts to calibrate its novel mixed-mode ventilation system and delivering on the office’s dashboard, this presentation will also speak to a series of change management and post-occupancy efforts that have been deployed to continuously learn forward in this living laboratory of workspace.
10.19.23
Small Firms Exchange Monthly Meeting - Brayn Consulting Tax Incentives for Small Architecture Firms As businesses strive to maximize their bottom line, tax saving opportunities are becoming increasingly important. This course is specifically designed to assist small architecture firms in identifying if they qualify for the R&D Tax Credit, 179D Energy Efficient Commercial Building Deduction and the Employee Retention Tax Credit. Attendees will learn about the history of these tax incentives and what legislatives changes have taken place and where the tax incentives are headed in the future and how your firm can capitalize on them.
10.17.23
Urban Design Panel 10.17.23 - Central City Task Force Listening Session For the Portland Urban Design Panel’s October 17th meeting, we host a listening session to support the revitalization of downtown Portland and neighboring areas for Governor Kotek’s Portland Central City Task Force, facilitated by members of UDP’s Executive Committee.
10.09.23
Green Champion Summit 2023 - Marlon Blackwell AIA Oregon was pleased to host Marlon Blackwell, FAIA as our Green Champion Summit keynote during Sustainable Building Week, October 9 - 13, 2023 - a week of cross-disciplinary education to solve climate imperatives.
On October 9, Marlon discussed how his firm culture and architectural approach work to accomplish common goals between client and community, achieving elegant design as a civil right. He utilized case studies from his firm's award-winning portfolio to illustrate the process of inclusion that leads to resilience.
9.27.23
Digital Design Series - AIA Oregon Presents: Scott Edwards Architecture Scott Edwards Architecture present their Architecture Headquarters project, recipient of a 2022 Oregon Architecture Awards Merit Award. As a company focused on architectural design, Scott Edwards Architecture tapped the firm’s existing knowledge and engaged staff with a company-wide charette process to design a headquarters that is purposeful in its commitment to preserve, innovate, and connect to people and place. The building is both meaningful for the occupants as a comfortable workplace and an important addition to the neighborhood as a beacon of forward-looking design. Everything from the kitchen functionality to the roof deck to workstation sizing and layout is a direct result of active discovery—'moments’ like the feature stair and associated sitting areas encourage staff to linger, connect, share ideas, and pause at times throughout the workday to build in some whitespace for deeper thought.
Learn what drove SEA’s decision to renovate and add to the firm’s existing office, rather than move to a new location, and how the use of mass timber helped integrate old and new. The presentation will also explore the project’s sustainability strategies, a case study for code appeal that helped maintain the design vision, and how intentional design elements throughout the headquarters promote staff well-being.
9.14.23
InProcess Lecture - East County Library Project Holst and PAE will be co-presenting the New East County Library project in Gresham.
The East County Flagship Library will be a 95,000 sf new space aiming to provide the community with diverse services and spaces. This presentation will discuss the design strategy and components of the project. A key element of planning for the design was community engagement through multiple charettes in which top concerns and desires could be voiced. In addition to a traditional library space, the project also contains the potential for unique community uses like a maker space, audio and video production space, and large area for cultural celebrations.
Sustainability was a top concern for both the community and the project team. The project is aiming for LEED Gold and is using passive house principles and relevant parts of the materials elements of the Living Building Challenge to create a resilient, low carbon, and energy-efficient building. The presentation will dive deep into all three challenges to explain how the team addressed each in the design.
9.13.23
COTE Digital Design Series - Innovations and Operations: Developments in Sustainable Precast Precast concrete is a durable, resilient material that can provide many benefits to efficient, sustainable structures in the long term. While concrete does have an upfront CO2 impact, the precast industry is working to reduce GHG emissions and increase the efficiency of its products. This presentation will discuss technical innovations to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete and examine current process improvements that are pushing the industry forward to a more sustainable future.
9.06.23
Digital Design Series AIA Oregon Presents: Linden, Brown Architecture
Gradient House and Studio - 2022 Oregon Architecture Awards Honor Award Recipient
Gradient House and Studio transforms a postwar house in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland into a timely and sophisticated live work campus. United by a shared roof and material palette, the house and studio frame a courtyard that overlooks the iconic St. Johns Bridge, the Willamette River, and West Hills. Home to a young family with a thriving design business, Gradient provides a true live/work balance, with strong connections to neighbors and the landscape, following the natural topography of the site. Though the new house and studio more than double the size of the original house, the scale of the surrounding neighborhood is maintained.
This presentation will describe the design process, owner/architect/contractor team relationship and how that effected the final design and execution of the project.
8.17 & 8.18.23
Future Vision 2023 Future Vision is a two day virtual symposium that brings industry professionals together to discuss topics about equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), their importance relative to the health of the industry and develop tools necessary to promote equity in the profession.
This year’s theme was ELEVATE (How do we elevate EDI in design to new heights, what will it take to get us there?)
8.17.12
Session 1 - Five Women Architects Discuss Female Leadership in the AEC industry This panel moderated by current AIA Oregon President Kaley Fought, will engage and discuss female leadership in the AEC Industry through various female perspectives. The panel will discuss how some Portland firm’s female leaders are addressing and incorporating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusive concepts and practices into their firm culture and design. Attendees will hear and learn from 7 female architects including AIA 99TH President Emily Grandstaff-Rice along other female leaders from firms of various sizes, to address the many different ways and possibilities to advocate for women leadership in AEC, and actively address social and gender equity within the profession of architecture.
Session 2 - Female leadership in Sustainability: How Project Pivot is helping Architects Rethink Sustainability Julie McEvoy Baines and Erin Lauer, co-founders of Project Pivot, will discuss their roles as female sustainability consultant and how they help architects rethink sustainability and equity within practice. The panel moderated by AIA Small Firm Exchange (SFx) local and State representative Jennifer Wright, AIA, will explore and discuss female leadership in sustainability. The course will help attendees learn how Julie and Erin co-founded Project Pivot and along those lines, they will discuss where their personal interests and skill sets overlap towards incorporating sustainability in their practice as well as how they are both aiming to create a wider impact within the profession.
8.18.23
Session 1 - Rethinking the Pipeline Between Academia and the Practice of Architecture This panel will engage and discuss the “Pipeline between academia and architectural practice” through the concept of EDI. Eight design professionals including practicing architects, professors of Architecture, and young emerging professionals, will discuss how and why architects and educators need to rethink the pipeline between Academia and practice. The discussion will center around the importance of Design Justice and EDI methods that can empower, improve, and lead to building a better pipeline between getting an architectural education and practicing in the built environment.
Session 2 - Deaf Space: Accessibility through the Lenses of Two Deaf Designers This course is a workshop panel where the panelists will be discussing deaf space and accessibility and sharing their journey in design. Panelist will discuss the challenges that come with being a deaf designer and the many ways architects and educators can improve accessibility in the built environment. Attendees will be able to learn sign language and resources available to architects. The course will further discuss the importance of accessibility in architecture and how accessibility consultants, individuals with a disability, and JEDI efforts can become catalyst in helping create spaces that are more inclusive, accessible, joyful, equitable, and just.
8.15.23
Urban Design Panel: Waterfront Vancouver USA – Transformation of Shorefront Industrial Property This presentation by Matt Grady will provide slides from the previous industrial uses at the 32 acre project site and then unveil the challenges and issues in developing the site into a thriving new 21-city block neighborhood complete with residential, hotels, retail, office, restaurants and a shoreline park.
7.26.23
Digital Design Series - AIA Oregon Presents: Hacker Architects
“Remaking Brutalist Buildings – Salem Public Library“
Renewing Brutalist buildings dating back to the 1960s has become a sweet spot of the Hacker design practice—a challenging mix of sustainable, renewal, and creative problem solving that really hinges on the power of collaborative, holistic design. In the US, the widespread embrace of Brutalist architecture was a reaction to events of the time. Amidst an institutional building boom and a decade of social upheaval, the monolithic, fortified nature of Brutalism had a pragmatic appeal for growing colleges, universities, as well as municipal governments.
A half-a-century-later, these defensive and inwardly focused buildings represent the antithesis of the open, flexible environments Hacker designs today. And as they near the end of their first life cycles, these concrete behemoths pose significant challenges for their institutional and government owners. While sustainability and lean budgets argue for renovation rather than replacement, reimagining these libraries, government halls, classroom buildings, and other facilities for the next 50 years is a daunting task.
We’ll highlight key tactics we apply to make the most of renovation and deferred maintenance budgets when repositioning Brutalist structures for the future.
7.12.23
COTE Digital Design Series - Trifecta of Carbon Commitments You may know about AIA 2030, but what about MEP 2040 and SE 2050? Join our discussion and learn how Oregon firms are leading the way to net zero carbon through these national commitments led by American Institute of Architects, Carbon Leadership Forum and Structural Engineering Institute.
If your firm is just beginning to discuss ways to reduce carbon in design, or if your firm is already a full-fledged signatory, this webinar is for you. Panelists will share how they advocate for these commitments, their experience conducting analysis and how the reporting process is informing the way they design. Learn how to turn your firm’s carbon commitments into action!
6.20.23
June Urban Design Panel: UO Urban Design Studio - Future Visions for Downtown Portland This spring, the Urban Design Studio at the University of Oregon focused on future visions for Downtown Portland with specific attention given to the waterfront area. Under the leadership of Prof. Nico Larco, AIA, Lora Lillard (City of Portland, Parks and Recreation), and Mark Raggett (GBD Architects), the studio worked with the City of Portland, Prosper Portland, community stakeholders, and various design firms to address the impacts COVID has had on the City and challenges and opportunities that exist in the urban core. Student proposals investigated new visions for the waterfront and opportunities to reconnect with the river, to add housing in the area, and to create thriving neighborhood centers.
6.15.23
AIAO Small Firms Exchange June 2023 Meeting “The Power of Video for Small Firm Marketing”
Darguin Fortuna, AIA is a founding principal of Flow Design Architects, based in Salem, Massachusetts. The firm’s use of video storytelling & their YouTube channel has led to many opportunities for community outreach, project connections & retaining talented staff. Last year Flow Design Architects won the 2022 AIA Film Challenge People’s Choice Awards with their short film “The Change We See”.
Darquin will share the journey towards winning this award, the impact of being involved with the AIA at a National level with the Young Architects Forum & SFx and what resources he has used to make video a main segment of his firm’s outreach.
6.14.23
Digital Design Series - AIA Oregon Presents - Opsis Architects discuss the HONOR AWARD winning Leodis V. McDaniel School and the MERIT AWARD winning Idaho Central Credit Union Arena from the 2022 Oregon Architecture Awards.
5.25.23
Thursday Roundtable - Demystifying Fellowship Join our EVP / CEO, Heather Wilson, as she presents the path to AIA Fellowship. Fellows of the Institute are licensed AIA members who have maintained their membership for 10 consecutive years. AIA Fellows are recognized with the AIA’s highest membership honor for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society.
During the Demystifying session, you will learn about AIA Oregon’s Fellowship history and hear from some of our Chapter’s Fellows about the process and what you will need along the way. Even if you aren’t considering Fellowship this year, but think you might be interested in the future, THIS IS FOR YOU.
5.16.23
Urban Design Panel - UDP - Young Black Professionals (YBP) Workforce Housing Initiative Update The YBP Initiative, led by Bora Architecture & Interiors and Andersen Construction, in partnership with Self Enhancement Inc. (SEI) and HMS Development, is working to expand Portland as a home for young Black professionals interested in a career in the AEC industry. Their Professional Apprenticeship Program mentors high school and college graduates toward careers in construction management, architecture and engineering trades in Portland through supportive social impact objectives.
Project Partners Amy Donohue of Bora Architecture & Interiors and Joel Andersen of Andersen Construction last shared this work with the AIA community through a digital design series in 2021 and join the Urban Design Panel in May to give an update on this initiative and share the challenges and opportunities encountered in delivering this work.
5.10.23
COTE Digital Design Series - Oregon Design Awards 2030 Winner GBD Architects, KPFF, and Glumac discuss the 2022 Oregon Architecture Awards 2030 Award Winning Mill Creek Resiliency Building housing the Oregon State Treasury.
5.04.23
AIA Oregon's New HQ(s) Update Session 2 Your AIA Oregon Headquarters Task Force (HQTF) has been working exceptionally hard analyzing the results of the member survey issued at the end of last year, and now they’d like to share the results! This session is a repeat of the last session, for those who could make it on April 27th.
4.27.23
AIA Oregon's New HQ(s) Update Your AIA Oregon Headquarters Task Force (HQTF) has been working exceptionally hard analyzing the results of the member survey issued at the end of last year, and now they’d like to share the results!
4.25.23
SFx April Meeting - Jon Neidermeyer Join us this month for a conversation with Jon Niedermeyer, of Niedermeyer Risk Management (a Division of HUB International), who will talk about risk management, as well as programs and resources to be aware of for benefits, healthcare, retirement or succession.
4.18.23
Urban Design Panel - Launch of TriMet’s Regional TOD Plan TriMet’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) team has just published the agency’s first Regional Transit-Oriented Development Plan. Come join TOD Program Manager Guy Benn and TOD Design Manager Fiona Lyon as they share how the Plan will enable the agency to promote and deliver equitable development, increase ridership, provide essential housing, promote transit accessibility and deliver significant environmental, infrastructure, community, and economic benefits.
3.22.23
COTE DDS - 7 Steps to Cost Effective Zero Energy Join ZERO Coalition’s Technical Committee Co-chairs, Ryan Shanahan and Alex Boetzel, for an expert overview of their newest and best resource, the 7 Steps to Cost Effective Zero Energy for new buildings and the 7 Steps to Cost Effective Zero Energy Retrofits!
2.22.23
COTE Digital Design Series - 7 Steps to Cost Effective Zero Energy Join ZERO Coalition’s Technical Committee Co-chairs, Ryan Shanahan and Alex Boetzel, for an expert overview of their newest and best resource, the 7 Steps to Cost Effective Zero Energy for new buildings and the 7 Steps to Cost Effective Zero Energy Retrofits!
2.21.23
Urban Design Panel - The Future of Downtown Portland and the Downtown RUDAT Initiative The February 21st Urban Design Panel was an opportunity for input from all members on the important topic of the future of Downtown Portland and the Downtown RUDAT initiative. As an enhancement to our usual Q&A chat format following the presentation, we encouraged questions, ideas and initiatives in an interactive format.
The Downtown R/UDAT initiative presentation was kept intentionally short, as a description of the proposed/accepted study beginning summer 2023, to allow an extended discussion period. We see this as a chance for a verbal format more resembling public outreach than the familiar Q&A based panel presentation. The Urban Design Panel seeks to hear all voices, and sees this as an opportunity of early engagement with the RUDAT team from the unique perspective of our membership.
02.01.23
CoEDI Engage - “Breaking Barriers” with Rachel (Rahil) Zarpoush Rachel (Rahil) Zarpoush is a Technical Designer at Gensler Oakland, CA office. As a deaf designer, Rachel enjoys using her experience and skills to contribute to the inclusive design of commercial spaces and is currently working on aviation projects. Learn more about Rachel’s story as an emerging designer, her artistic journey from Iran to the U.S., and how she strives to open more doors for deaf designers in the AEC field.
01.17.23
Urban Design Panel: Climate-Responsive Urban Design Concepts - Climate Friendly, Equitable Communities What does a climate-friendly community look like? This session will provide examples of the types of development that would meet the new state Climate Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC) rule, for smaller as well as larger cities. Members of Oregon’s urban design community will walk through a number of existing and proposed urban design elements that would create a more dense and walkable community than might otherwise occur, which is the state’s intention in creating the rules.
01.11.23
Digital Design Series - “Mock Charette” Join Energy Trust and AIA Oregon for a panel discussion and an opportunity to see a “Mock Charette” that exemplifies years of best practices from design team experts in their chosen field. These experts have had the opportunity to engage with Energy Trust early in the planning process in order to maximize incentives and participate in impactful early design discussions. Panelists will represent professional roles equating to the recommended team members at an early design meeting, including the project owner, architect, engineer(s), Energy Trust representative, solar trade ally, energy modeler, and Commissioning (Cx) Agent for add-ons.