Portland Seen Through Architectural Models, Past, Present, Future

Jan 31-Mar 27



presented by PDX Design Collaborative in association with Portland Art Museum, Architecture Foundation of Oregon, Oregon Historical Society, ULI Northwest, UO College of Design, Portland Architecture Program, and PSU School of Architecture.



City of Possibility offers an unprecedented look at the ongoing legacy of Portland architecture and urban design: more than 50 architectural models, historic and contemporary, plus a virtual fly-through of major future districts being planned.

        

  •        Locations


    Expensify Bank Building
    401 SW 5th Ave

    J.K. Gill Building
    408 SW  5th Ave


    12:00-6:00 PM; Friday-Sunday
    Opening Jan 31 6:00-9:00 PM


 Related Events


  •      Portland’s Next Horizon

    Sunday, FEB 02
    2:00-4:00 PM
    Portland Art Museum Mark Building

       Tickets

    Get to know the Central City of the future with an afternoon of the latest news by the leaders behind the boldest new additions coming to Portland: Albina Vision, OMSI District, Rothko Pavilion, the Green Loop and more.
     

 Major Supporters


  •      Van Evra Bailey Fund of OCF
    Portland Central City Task Force
    Portland Bureau of Transportation 
    Bob and Jeanne Frasca Fund of OCF
    + more!


 Major In-Kind Support


  •      Expensify Bank
    Menashe Properties
    Portland Art Museum
    Plus & Greater Than
    + more!


      

1972 DOWNTOWN URBAN DESIGN MODEL


        
At the heart of the exhibit is a 12-by-18-foot, beautifully crafted fir model of Portland’s urban center, on loan from the Architectural Heritage Center. City planners created it in 1971 as an urban design tool to implement the city’s 1972 Downtown Plan, the blueprint for the Portland's renaissance that blazed the path for urban comebacks in cities across the country.

       
   Selected Pieces

PORTLAND PUBLIC MARKET CONCEPT . COOKE

BLANK HOUSE . JENNIFER BONNER
C.A. BRIGHT TOWER CONCEPT . ROBERT HARVEY OSHATZ




MODULAR STUDIES . WAECHTER ARCHITECTURE
PARROT CREEK CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES . EL DORADO
MODELS . PROJECT PIPELINE PROGRAM

   Participants

Allied Works

AFO’s Architects in Schools

Pietro Belluschi

Jennifer Bonner / MALL

Bora Architecture and Interiors

COLAB Architecture + Urban Design

Communitecture 

Timothy Cooke



Design Research Office

DRAWINGS

Arthur Erickson

GBD Architects

Michael Graves

Hacker

Hennebery Eddy Architects

LEVER Architecture

Magic Animals

Mayer/Reed 

Mitchell Giurgola

Morgan Maiolie

Newlands & Company 3D

Observation Studio

Office Kuhnhausen

Opsis Architecture

Robert Harvey Oshatz
UO Oregon Reality Lab



Pine Bureau

Potestio Studio
NOMA’s Project Pipeline

PSU School of Architecture

Scott Edwards Architecture

SERA Architects

Skylab Architecture

Daniel Toole Architecture

TVA Architects


Waechter Architecture

West of West 

Woofter Bolch Architecture

Workaday Design

Works Progress Architecture

John Yeon

ZGF Partnership

El Dorado

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Randy Gragg


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Will Smith




     



     PDX Design Collaborative is a project of the Charitable Partnership Fund, a 501(c)(3) publicly supported charitable organization.