A Portland architectural group and design cooperative will culminate a monthlong series of exhibits and alternative designs with a panel discussion Thursday evening about the proposed Columbia River Crossing project.
The panel discussion, featuring architects and urban design experts, will be 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, 1241 N.W. Johnson St., in Portland.
The panel will feature Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell; artist Ed Carpenter; outgoing National Endowment for the Arts director of design Maurice Cox; Toronto architect and urban design consultant Ken Greenberg; and Richard White, author of “The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River.” Ethan Seltzer, an urban studies and planning professor at Portland State University, will serve as moderator for the discussion.
The event is free and open to the public.
The college, which is open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., is offering an exhibition featuring five perspectives on the proposed Columbia River Crossing by Portland-area urban designers Rudy Barton, Carol Mayer-Reed, Mike McCulloch, Rick Potestio and Bill Tripp. It includes each designers’ questions, responses, ideas and individual approaches to a new Interstate 5 bridge and its regional impact.
