Join us for this week's Fridays @1 as Hope Svenson discusses her work as an architectural historian and archivist specializing in the built environment of Oregon. She will talk specifically about the 2021 book she published on Oregon’s Mt. Angel Abbey library building, designed by Alvar Aalto, and her current position as the Architecture & Design Project Archivist at the Oregon Historical Society. Architectural archives are representations of our built (and unbuilt) environment that have value as historical documents, contractual records between architects and clients, and are works of art in their own right. Svenson brings a historian’s perspective to the design discipline that values the archival record and the stories it tells (and doesn’t tell) about what we build, what we don’t build, and why.
About the Speaker
Prior to her position as Architecture & Design Archivist at the Oregon Historical Society, Hope Svenson had a career as a curator of contemporary art. She also spent a decade as a freelance architectural historian where she conducted research, field work, and published writings for the City of Portland, the Architectural Heritage Center, the Architecture Foundation of Oregon, and the Oregon Historical Quarterly, among others. She has a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington and a Master of Environmental Design from Yale University.
What is Friday@1?
On most Fridays at 1 p.m. during the academic term, PSU School of Architecture students and faculty gather to hear from professional designers and architects, academics, visiting artists, innovators, and students in the program. Friday@1 is a perfect way to wrap up each week of intense creativity in the studio and get inspired for the productive weekend ahead.
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.