This City of Possibility exhibition is presented by PDX Design Collaborative in association with the Portland Art Museum, Architecture Foundation of Oregon, Oregon Historical Society, ULI Northwest, UO College of Design, Portland Architecture Program, and PSU School of Architecture. We are proud to have two of our Professors, Juan Manuel Heredia and Anna Goodman, as part of the Curatorial Advisory Committee for this event.
City of Possibility is an initiative of PDX Design Collaborative that offers an unprecedented look at the ongoing legacy of Portland architecture and urban design. City of Possibility will exhibit more than 50 architectural models —historic and contemporary— plus a virtual fly-through of major future districts currently being planned for the city. In addition, the exhibit will feature models from our students and faculty.
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/Bosco Miligan Foundation. 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.
The City of Possibility Opening Night will be on January 31, 6:00-9:00 pm, hosted at the Expensify and J.K. Gill Buildings. The Opening weekend will also feature a talk, "Portland’s Next Horizon: 7 Projects That Will Redefine the Central City," on February 2nd at the Portland Art Museum. Learn More and Register Here for this talk.
Interested in learning more? Check out the City of Possibility website! Want to volunteer? Join the team here.
*Pictured: Modular Studies of Waechter Architects