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In partnership with the Parkside Neighborhood Association, Peloton Labs, and the Maine Section of the American Society of Landscape Architects we organized a design competition to re-imagine Bramhall … Read More

Advocacy Alert: Federal Historic Tax Credits at Risk! Help Us Preserve Historic Tax Credits! Right now Congress is close to finalizing tax reform legislation. The Republican leadership’s outline … Read More

How do we strengthen the future of our greater Portland Community? Engagement and collaboration is the path some individuals are using to develop more effective advocacy on growth, … Read More

Addy Smith-Reiman, newly appointed Executive Director of Portland Society for Architecture and Board member for the National Association of Olmsted Parks, will deliver MHS’s annual Olmsted Lecture on … Read More

Welcome Addy Smith-Reiman as PSA’s new Executive Director! PSA Welcomes New Executive Director press release

The third in a series of PSA programming that addresses the challenges and opportunities of growth and change facing the Portland community. PSA distributed over 5,000 maps to … Read More

Register Today for Why Local? Forum Our community, like many others, is struggling with an influx of national and multinational corporations displacing local businesses and the consequences of … Read More

PSA President, Patrick Costin of Canal 5 Architects, advocates for high quality building and neighborhood design worthy of maintaining in the future.  Mediocrity in the service of growth … Read More

John Turk, an original member of PSA, has recently announced his new professional position.  Read more about it here.

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Portland Society for Architecture is excited to share our summer community engagement program: The Complete City, in partnership with Creative Portland, The Muskie School of Public Service, The Portland … Read More

See pictures of the recent tour held on July 27, 2017

Advocacy This committee promotes PSA’s mission of sustainable, responsible and creative growth for Portland. Committee representatives testify regularly at City of Portland board and committee meetings and lobby … Read More

Join our efforts!  Click here to see committee plans for 2017.

Full Draft is Released – February 2017: The City’s Planning & Urban Development Department is pleased to release the full draft of Portland’s new comprehensive plan. The document, … Read More

By making membership in PSA free beginning in 2017, we hope to encourage participation of young design professionals as well as others who want to support our mission. … Read More