Portland Architecture

JANUARY 27, 2022

Julia Mollner ( Carleton Hart Architecture ). . BY LUKE AREHART. Continuing our now-multiyear series in which local architects talk about their inspirations, influences and key moments from their careers, the latest edition of The Architect's Questionnaire features Julia Mollner, a project architect and associate at Carleton Hart Architecture for the past six years.

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Portland Architecture

JANUARY 5, 2022

Michelle Black and Brian Carleton ( KLiK Concepts ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. For quite a while now, I've been meaning to check in with Carleton Hart Architecture , and for a variety of reasons. I first met co-founder Brian Carleton just over 20 years ago, when I was working at the local American Institute of Architects chapter and he was the chapter's president for a year.

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Portland Architecture

APRIL 6, 2021

Lobby of the renovated J.K. Gill Building ( Brian Libby ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. If you're like me, the name J.K. Gill is both familiar and unfamiliar. When I was growing up in Oregon in the 1980s, the company had about 30 stores across four western states and was a familiar presence in malls and on main street around the state. By that time, the longtime family business had been sold and its longtime flagship, downtown at SW Fifth and Stark, was already in the process of being rented out.

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Portland Architecture

APRIL 29, 2021

Quang Truong ( Anna Shakotko ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. Architect Quang Truong has long been one of my favorite design thinkers in Portland. And that's before he wrote the world's first book about composite materials in architecture, became a Portland State University professor, and founded a software company to visualize complex zoning codes. Raised in the Portland area, Truong originally came here with his family as a Vietnamese refugee.

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Portland Architecture

MAY 21, 2021

PSU assistant professor Laila Seewang ( Portland State University ). BY BRIAN LIBBY. . This spring, Portland State University's School of Architecture has been hosting an online series of urban design conversations between designers in Portland and other cities called "Infrastructure of the Public City," addressing "both the large-scale systems and ideas that organize cities as well as concrete, contemporary urban design problems and projects," as the PSU website describes.

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Portland Architecture

JULY 5, 2021

Ground-floor lobby at Multnomah County Central Courthouse ( Brian Libby ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. In autumn of 2020, the new Multnomah County Central Courthouse completed construction. Normally that's when I and other press would have visited. But 2020 was no ordinary year, so it was only a few weeks ago—nine months after the opening and only as people got vaccinated—that any of us without immediate court business have been able to go inside.

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Portland Architecture

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Doug Minarik ( Minarik Architecture ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. It's been a long summer, with another wave of rising Covid infections, all-time-record heat, and wildfire smoke clouding our skies. And with a succession of writing assignments following a slow pandemic, my posts to this blog have been too seldom lately. I apologize for that, but there are several new posts on the way.

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Portland Architecture

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Beaver Creek Cabin by Outside Architecture ( Shawn Records ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. I’ve decided to try a new series of monthly blog posts in which I talk about the different articles I’m writing, places I’ve visited, others’ work I might have read, and any other relevant info or stories I can come up with. So here goes! Going Outside. Recently I completed two articles featuring the work of Portland firm Outside Architecture.

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Meyer Memorial Trust ( courtesy Jeremy Bittermann/JBSA ). . BY BRIAN LIBBY. It's that time of year again: accolades for the city's best architecture of the past year via the American Institute of Architects' Oregon Architecture Awards, this time juried by a trio of out-of-town architects: Pascale Sablan of David Adjaye Associates' New York office, Bryan C Lee Jr. of Colloqate Design in New Orleans, and Ricardo de Jesús Maga Rojas of STG Design in Austin.

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