Today and tonight two Portland State University Department of Architecture classes are offering public presentations of their projects at the Unitus Building (2121 SW Fourth Avenue, Third Floor). The ‘Architecture and Human Action’ group presents from 1-5pm, but I know a little bit more about the second group, called “T[h]reading the City” thanks to some correspondence with PSU architecture professor and keen chap Clive Knights.
Instead of paraphrasing what Knights told me in his letter (I actually got a letter in the mail - how quaint!), I’m going to pass on some of it directly (after some laborious retyping) because I think it’s fascinating:
Students have been asked to consider the identity of the city, this city, Portland. They are exploring identity not as a single definition or absolute but as a multitude of myths embedded in the landscape, buildings and unfolding human drama of everyday life.
The project speculates on the contribution […]
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