from Portland, Oregon

This month, continuing with the year’s theme of “Design Excellence,” Corey Martin and Kevin Cavenaugh, both from Portland, will be our co-presenters. The focus of this meeting is to examine alternatives to traditional architectural practice, specifically a design-driven development process.

Kevin’s presentation will focus on:

1) Banks - can't live with 'em, can't ..... wait, maybe we can live without 'em!
2) Micro is the new macro - from housing to restaurants
3) Why do we take our profession so seriously? Or at least our drawing sets ....

Corey’s presentation:

Corey will discuss how he strives to connect architecture with nature within urban settings, the importance of trusting the gesture, and the struggle to create exceptional design within the realities of the self financed development process.

Kevin Cavenaugh, Designer

Manager, …some knucklehead LLC

After completing architecture school at U.C. Berkeley and a 2-year stint building schools and homes for the Peace Corps in Gabon, Africa, Kevin Cavenaugh moved to Portland, Oregon in 1993.

He still works in Portland, designing and developing small commercial and residential buildings. He tends to use inexpensive materials and always attains high energy efficiency in his work. His last building, the Burnside Rocket, has earned a LEED Platinum rating.

From hip restaurants to creative offices to wonderful residential renters, Cavenaugh has been fortunate to turn his good buildings into great buildings by virtue of the tenants; and he has a waiting list for every new building he produces. And because he builds with the intention of keeping each project, he also learns directly how his designs age as he maintains them year by year.

Cavenaugh was a Loeb Fellow in 2007-2008 at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is currently experimenting with ideas such as lender-free developments, micro housing, and temporary building skin systems.

PATH Architecture

Corey Martin is a partner in PATH Architecture, an award winning design and development firm based in Portland, Oregon. PATH’s experience ranges from creating visionary development plans based on shifting economic trends and more sustainable lifestyles, holding a seat on the Design Commission of the City of Portland to the micro detail of highly crafted homes, furniture making and sculpture.

Corey will discuss how he strives to connect buildings with nature within urban settings and offer insight into the self financed development process.

After completing his architectural training at the University of Oregon he worked in the offices of Richard Potestio and Allied Works, leaving to open his own sculpture, furniture and design studio in 1999. He combined forces with long his friend and client Benjamin Kaiser to form PATH Architecture in 2005 to explore the potential of a design driven development process.

This month's AIA-SWO Chapter Meeting is, again, proudly sponsored by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). OTREC supports innovations in sustainable transportation through Advanced Technology, Integration of Land Use and Transportation, and Healthy Communities. OTREC is a National University Transportation Center created by Congress in 2005 and is a partnership between Portland State University, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and the Oregon Institute of Technology.

Dinner, Program Cost, and Learning Units:
AIA members: $18.00
Non-AIA members: $20.00
Students & Associate AIA members: $10.00
AIA members & associates from more than 35 miles from Eugene and Springfield (Corvallis, Coos Bay, Roseburg, etc.): freeProgram with recorded credits (w/o Dinner) $5.00
1.0 credits (HSW)

Free Prize Raffle!
Attend the meeting for a chance to win a $50 Gift Certificate courtesy of The Green Store! Your first raffle ticket is free with paid dinner; additional tickets are $2 each.