Portland based Architect for 28 years

  • Principal Architect, Design Department Architecture, 15 years

  • Architecture experience includes urban planning, streetcar, PDX airport, Portland Community College Cascade Campus, Light Rail, West End Master Plan/Downtown Revitalization (1998), and numerous restaurant, bar, commercial and housing projects in Portland

Restaurant and bar owner and operator in Portland for 12 years

  • Pizza Jerk NE, Pizza Jerk SW, Victoria, Uncanny, Fortune, XO, June, Lightning Bar Collective

Education

  • Harvard University, Master of Architecture

  • Columbia University, Architectural Studies

  • Carleton College, BA Art

Former Experience

  • Adjunct Professor, University of Oregon

  • Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood Development (HAND) Board Member

Ben Hufford in front of the 65 high "Portland" sign, displayed on the exterior of Portland, Oregon's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

“Portland has no shortage of good intentions, but we need actual progress. Put the Progress back in Progressive.

Less talking, More doing.”

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