Our staff appreciation holiday party at Alesong Brewing was filled with treats, prizes, games, and gifts! Our team of architects and designers participated in a ‘Secret Sock Swap’ and collected socks to donate within our local community. We played ‘Heads or Tails’ for prizes, enjoyed a variety of food and snacks, but most importantly enjoyed being together again.
Congratulations to Clayton Arrowood, PIVOT Architecture’s newest registered architect!
Clayton began his journey at PIVOT in 2017 has contributed immensely to PIVOT by tackling large transit projects. Clayton gravitates towards transit design because each project is vastly different from the others and require custom details.
“Transit design is all custom. Every station and detail are different and you really have to problem solve to create great designs” Clayton said. “I’m excited to work on more projects that can help increase accessibility for people to get where they need to go.”
Clayton joins the seventeen other registered architects at PIVOT Architecture.
PIVOT Architecture is thrilled to welcome Carly Bushman to our staff. She is a registered architect with three years of experience.
Carly is a Clark Honors College graduate with a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in interior architecture from the University of Oregon. She is determined to bike commute year-round and can be found indoor climbing, admiring dogs, or snacking on Sour Patch Kids.
In the short time she’s been at PIVOT, Carly has made immediate contributions to the team, passed her final ARE exam, and become a licensed architect!
There was somewhat of a role reversal using the SparkLab space that we designed for Connected Lane County, the important non-profit that links industry to public schools in the area.
Connecting with area middle school students at the middle school Elevate Career Expo and giving them a taste of design architecture was invigorating. We showed students some of the ins and outs of the design process and had them try their hand at sketching by either drawing the floor plans to their house or using trace to replicate an elevation of an project we’re working on.
Some students knuckled down immediately and started to draw. Others needed a little nudge to get started, but once they did their attention to detail and sketching ability was fun to watch.