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


    Exhibits Open
    12:00-6:00 PM; Friday-Sunday


 Related Events


`    City of Possibility Wrap Party    
  •      
    Thursday, MAR 27
  •      5:00-8:00 PM
  •      J.K Gill Building

  •            Tickets

     Join us for a last look and some back pats for an amazing collaboration.  

     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!

       
    •      Your tax-detuctible donation helps support our programs.

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    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

    AFO’s Architects in Schools

    Allied Works

    Arthur Erickson

    Bora Architecture and Interiors

    COLAB Architecture + Urban Design

    Communitecture 

    Daniel Toole Architecture

    Design Research Office



    DRAWINGS

    El Dorado

    GBD Architects

    Hacker

    Hennebery Eddy Architects

    Jennifer Bonner / MALL

    John Yeon

     LEVER Architecture

     LSW Architects



    Magic Animals

    Mayer/Reed

    Michael Graves

    Mitchell Giurgola

    Morgan Maiolie

    Newlands & Company 3D

    NOMA’s Project Pipeline

    Observation Studio

    Office Kuhnhausen



    Opsis Architecture

     Pietro Belluschi

    Pine Bureau

    Potestio Studio

    PSU School of Architecture

    Robert Harvey Oshatz

    Scott Edwards Architecture

    SERA Architects

    Skylab Architecture


    Timothy Cooke

    TVA Architects

    UO Oregon Reality Lab

    Waechter Architecture

    West of West 

    Woofter Bolch Architecture

    Workaday Design

    Works Progress Architecture

    ZGF Partnership


       



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