Alex Salazar Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, Us

Since 2007 firm has focused on creating big social and environmental impacts by working collaboratively with clients and community based organizations. We have a thoughtful approach to public interest architecture and extensive experience using community planning workshops to create places that are contemporary, affordable and a catalyst for change. We offer a full range of services, from conceptual design through construction administration. Founded by Alex Salazar, AIA, we work on a select number of buildings each year and occasionally team up with other firms to deliver large-scale developments. Over the years Alex has led design and construction services on dozens of affordable and mixed-income / mixed-use buildings, community centers and social service spaces in California, Oregon, New York and Washington DC.

Portland, Or, Us

I taught as an Adjunct in 2015 in the Architecture program, and continue to collaborate with the Center for Public Interest Design on numerous community design projects over the last few years.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Design Architect for large affordable housing developments, including mixed-income and mixed use projects that combine HUD and Tax Credit funding. I led the building shell design and project team through numerous efforts, including both new construction and renovation efforts. My work with the firm included projects in Washington DC, California, Connecticut, Florida and Massachusetts.

Oakland, California, Us

East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO) is a 25-year-old membership non-profit organization, founded in 1984, dedicated to working with communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to preserve, protect and expand affordable housing opportunities through education, advocacy, and coalition building.

Eugene, Or, Us

Winter 2008: Lecturer, Graduate Community Planning Studio

I was a Project Manager during these years, designing and managing affordable housing and market rate projects, as well as doing urban design. My main projects were Zygmunt Arendt House, a Permanent Supportive Housing development for Community Housing Partnership and TNDC, which completed construction a few years after I left; the Hunters View master plan for The John Stewart Company; and Old Oakland, a condo project for AF Evans.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Fall 2007: Lecturer, 2nd year Undergraduate Community Planning Studio

Oakland, California, Us

I was a founding board member and Chair of the Media Committee during the first campaign in 2000, and a board member during the successful 2002 ballot initiative establishing Just Cause Eviction protections in the City of Oakland. From 2002 to 2004 I helped transition the organization from a political campaign into a grassroots, multi-cultural community organizing tenant rights non-profit.

Oakland, Ca, Us

I was a key staff member doing design work and managing affordable housing and university housing projects.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Summer 2003: Lecturer, Graduate + Undergraduate Community Planning StudioSummer 2000: Lecturer, Introductory Studio, Academic Talent Development ProgramSpring 1998: Graduate Student Instructor, 1st year Design Studio

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I was staff in the early years, working on Permanent Supportive Housing projects: the Iroquois Hotel in San Francisco for Community Housing Partnership; the Rose Hotel for Mercy Housing; and the ground floor renovation of the San Pablo Hotel for Center for Elders Independence.

This was a great firm back in the early days of affordable housing and my first real job in the profession in the US. Bob sadly passed away soon after I joined. While Marquis Associates closed, I met architect Bob Herman during those few months, who ended up hiring me as part of his firm.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

My first summer internship while still an undergraduate student.

Ms Arch, Architecture

B. Arch, Architecture