NEWS & RECENT POSTS
Film screening [February 23, 2012]
Brian's short film "Entering The Atmosphere" is playing in the Portland International Film Festival program "Short Cuts VI: Made In Oregon"

Architect article [January, 2012]
Fab Four: Four designers see digital fabricaion as a process that could affect the way we make everything

Architect article [January, 2012]
Mirror Ball: the metallic finish on the Oregon Ducks' football helmets

Architect article [December, 2012]
Let There Be Light: Engineers discuss the lighting-control systems that enable their clients and users to focus on diffrent aspects of experiencing a building.

Portland Monthly article [November, 2011]
Long Gone Blonde: Mayo Methot - once Portland's most celebrated silver-screen bad girl and wife of Humphrey Bogart

Film screening [October 4, 2011]
A collection of Brian's short films is playing as part of the American Institute of Architects' Architecture + Design Festival

Oregon Arts Watch article [September 26, 2011]
James Franco, Gus Van Sant and re-cutting "My Own Private Idaho"

Architect article [October, 2011]
Package Deals: Four designers talk about the rendering plug-ins and programs they employ

Architect article [September, 2011]
Dashboard confessional: three views on monitoring systems and the promise they hold for design

Atlantic Cities article [September 26, 2011]
Portland commits to the world's greenest office building

Oregon Home article [September, 2011]
High-rise renewal: designer-builder Fritz Junker's Portland Plaza condo

Luxury Homes Canada article [Fall, 2011]
Born from sculpture and Saskatchewan prairies: Toronto's Paul Raff Studio

Luxury Homes Canada article [Fall, 2011]
Montreal firm Y2: design as transformative tool for reinventing space

Design Bureau article [August, 2011]
Fill in the Blank: New York architect Steven Yablon

Architect article [July, 2011]
Eco-logical: three designers discuss the environmental codes that most affect their work

Stadia article [July, 2011]
Two competing stadium proposals are at the heart of a push to bring NFL action back to Los Angeles

City Club of Portland lecture [July 27, 2011]
Brian will present a talk called "Why Memorial Coliseum Matters"

Metropolis article [June, 2011]
Compact comfort: Ziba's JumpSeat elegantly bridges a design gap between folding chairs and theater seats

Architect article [June, 2011]
BIM, Bam, Boom: new software tools give designers a range of scientific data to make decisions on materials and form in rapid speed

Art lecture [May 12, 2011]
Brian will discuss "The Forest at Fountainbleu", a painting by Virgile Narcisse de la Pena, with a happy hour to follow

Design Bureau article [April, 2011]
Three sustainable schools in Portland, Bloomington and Philadelphia

Business Journal op-ed [March, 2011]
Ugly bridge design has negative impact

Architect article [March, 2011]
Interactive learning: an architecture studio on steroids at the University of Oklahoma

BetterBricks article [March, 2011]
The Empire State Strikes Back: Q&A with Dana Schneider

Design Bureau article [March, 2011]
Light, Place and Time: architect David Coleman's Zigzag house

Oregon Home article [February, 2011]
Designer Corey Martin's light filled urban duplex

Portland Monthly article [February, 2011]
Manila Mata Hari: In the occupied Pacific, a now-forgotten Portland nightclub singer turned herself into one of World War II's most celebrated spies

Design Bureau article [Febuary, 2011]
Rock 'n' Roll Refuge: Alterstudio's Bouldin Residence in Austin

Architect article [February, 2011]
Tim DuRoche on the Value of Architecture Centers

Architect article [January, 2011]
Tools for the Wired Designer: Three designers, three essentials

Design Bureau article [January, 2011]
Front, Inc.'s Louis Vuitton Ion in Singapore

Design Bureau article [January, 2011]
The Sliding Kitchen by Brooklyn's Workstead

Sierra article [December, 2010]
Retreat in the trees: Brian White's Puget Sound Treehouse

BetterBricks article [December, 2010]
Q&A: German architect and critic Ulf Meyer

Oregon Business article [December, 2010]
Hering tackles a tough commercial market

Architecture Week article [November 11, 2010]
Portland AIA Awards

Architect article [November 9, 2010]
Stackd.biz asks, Why shouldn't your social network include your office building?

Film screening [November 5, 2010]
Brian's short film Crossings will be exhibited at the Northwest Film & Video Festival at the Portland Art Museum and was named a Judge's Award winner

Bright Lights Film Journal article [August 2010]
Sanshiro Sugata: Kurosawa's Elegy for the Reluctant Kamikaze

Oregonian op-ed [August 10, 2010]
Memorial Coliseum: A Landmark Worth Preserving

Luxe article [Summer 2010]
Behavior Pattern: Nils Finne's Quintessential Northwest Modern Home

Sustainable Industries article [July 2010]
Closing the Gap: The issue of performance gap is a new but huge issue facing the green building industry

Film screening [June 17, 2010]
Brian's new short film collection, "Along the Way," will be exhibited at Grand Detour, 215 SE Morrison (suite 2020) at 7PM

AOL Housing Watch article [June 11, 2010]
Classic Modern in Connecticut: Rotating House for Sale

Architecture Week article [June 9, 2010]
New San Francisco Architecture

AOL Housing Watch article [June 1, 2010]
Are backyard cottages the answer to affordable hosuing?

Film screening [May 27, 2010]
Brian's short film "Pasadena Dreaming" will be ehibited at San Francisco's Artist Television Access Gallery as part of the Odds and Ends screening series

Film screening [April 30, 2010]
Brian's short film "Crossings" will be ehibited at Seattle's NW Film Forum as part of the Odds and Ends screening series

Sustainable Industries article [April 12, 2010]
Blazers try to live up to Rip City's green cred

AOL Rented Spaces article [March 30, 2010]
Cheaper Rents Mean Higher Commute Costs

AOL Housing Watch article [March 23, 2010]
Evaluating the best 'Time Saving Cities'

Oregonian op-ed [March 16, 2010]
The Ducks: Condemn? Yes. Abandon? Never.

Sustainable Industries article [March 5, 2010]
An ESOP fable for Bob's Red Mill

Film festival screening [February 2010]
Brian's film "Seagulls and Waves" has been chosen for the 2010 Portland International Film Festival's program Shorts III: Made in Portland

AOL Housing Watch article [February 22, 2010]
Living Modern Like A Single Man in Los Angeles

BetterBricks article [January 2010]
A conversation with British architect Peter Clegg

Architect's Newspaper article [February 2010]
Game City: A tour of the Vancouver Olympics

Architecture Week article [January 2010]
Pugh + Scarpa: a profile

Architecture Week article [December 2009]
Greenbuild 2009: Gore and More

Architecture Week article [December 2009]
Pugh + Scarpa Step Up

Film festival screening [November 15, 2009]
Brian's film "The Falls" is playing in the Shorts III program of the Northwest Film & Video Festival and was selected for a Judge's Award by judge Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times

Metropolis article [November 2009]
Tribal plan: Holst Architecture shapes new offices to reflect Ziba's unique culture of design

Sustainable Industries article [October 2009]
LEED For Sale

Sustainable Industries article [October 2009]
NASA Embarks on Sustainability Base

Portland Modern article [October 2009]
The work of Holst Architecture

Film screening [September 17, 2009]
Brian is curating a program of short films called "The City on Screen" at Design Within Reach (1200 NW Everett) as part of the Designs on Portland series. The show includes four of Brian's films: Above & Beyond, Demolition of the Rosefriend Apartments, Creamery Birds, and Nocturne in addition to work by four other local filmmakers

Sierra Magazine article [September 2009]
From 'Ugh!' to 'Aah!': Portland's 1310 Condominiums

Oregonian op-ed [August 16, 2009]
Newberg and I finally are going our separate ways

Architecture Week article [July 29, 2009]
Preservation in Portland

BetterBricks article [July 2009]
A conversation with London-based engineer Guy Battle

Architecture Week article [July 8, 2009]
Saving Memorial Coliseum

BetterBricks article [July 2009]
A Conversation with London-based engineer Guy Battle of Battle-McCarthy

Oregonian review [June 19, 2009]
Joe Bartholomew at Chambers @916

Oregonian article [May 28, 2009]
The MST3K experience comes alive with Cinematic Titanic

Oregonian review [May 18, 2009]
"W+K = Make" at Wieden + Kennedy

Architect's Newspaper essay [May 18, 2009]
A Protest: Save Memorial Coliseum

Architecture Week article [May 11, 2009]
Solid green practice: US firms taking sustainability to heart

Oregonian article [April 26, 2009]
Merging city bureaus places sustainability out front

Oregonian review [April 13, 2009]
Kim McKenna at Beppu Wiarda Gallery

Oregonian review [April 3, 2009]
Vanessa Renwick's "House of Sound" at New American Art Union

Dwell article [April 2009]
Stumptown Rock: Architecture W's Stump House

Oregonian review [March 27, 2009]
Masao Yamamoo's "Kawa = Flow" at PDX Contemporar Art and "Long Live The Ephemeral" at Fontanelle Gallery

Oregonian review [March 23, 2009]
"Under A Vanishing Night: New Work From Los Angeles" at Fourteen30 Contemporary

Architecture Week article [March 19, 2009]
Modern prefab by Marmol Radziner

Architecture Week article [February 25, 2009]
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects: 2009 AIA National Firm Award winner

Oregonian article [February 25, 2009]
Skylab weaves dream in hard times

Portland Modern article [February 2009]
Saul Zaik: Dean of Portland Architects

Oregonian review [February 23, 2009]
Linda K. Johnson and Stephen Hayes' "The Henna Project" at Portland State University's Smith Memorial Sudent Union

Oregonian review [February 19, 2009]
Aaron Yasson's "IMPEIBOCHK" at Chambers @ 916

Dwell article [February 19, 2009]
Portland's 11xDesign homes tour

Film screening [February 8, 2009]
Brian's short film Across the Sound will be screened as part of the Portland International Film Festival

Oregonian review [February 2, 2009]
Projecting minimalism: Laura Fritz at New American Art Union

Oregonian review [January 23, 2009]
Trish Grantham at Mark Woolley Gallery and Jason Traeger at MK Gallery

Oregonian review [January 20, 2009]
The artful everyday: Rachel Whiteread at the Portland Art Museum

Oregonian review [January 23, 2009]
'Impossible Instruments/Future Flags' at Fourteen30 Contemporary and Jeff Wallin at Bullseye Gallery

Oregonian article [January 15, 2009]
Sienna Architecture will close its doors

Oregonian article [January 8, 2009]
Holst Architecture puts its mark on Portland

Metropolitan Home article [December 2008]
All Together Now: Architects Claudine and Giorgio Lostao downsized by upgrading a 1940s house in Portland

Luxe article [December 2008]
American Dreams: Jeff Lamb's Del Castello Penthouse in Vancouver, Washington

Oregonian review [November 14, 2008]
Memorable metaphor inaugurates new space: Allen Maertz at Chambers @ 916

Oregonian review [November 10, 2008]
A braided 'river' flows back home: M.K. Guth's "Ties of Protection" at the Portland Art Museum

Film screening [November 7-15, 2008]
Brian's short film Kyoto Diner will be screened as part of the Portland Art Museum/Northwest Film Center's Northwest Film & Video Festival

Architecture Week article [October 15, 2008]
21st Century BC: Victoria's Dockside Green

Oregonian review [October 3, 2008]
Sublime remembrance etched in corrosion: David Maisel at Blue Sky Gallery

Oregonian review [September 29, 2008]
Friendlier Fire and woven homeless signs: Bruce Conkle at RocksBox, Marc Dombrowsky at the Portland Art Museum

Oregonian review [September 29, 2008]
Emerging talent, new space: Devon Oder at Foureen30 Contemporary

Oregonian article [September 24, 2008]
"Suddenly" tackles phony city-suburb divide

Oregonian article [September 5, 2008]
In The Works: Jacob Hartman and Lizzie Fitch at the Time-Based Art Festival

Metropolitan Home article [September 2008]
A Modern Goat Ranch: About to become parents, a pair of Portland, Oregon, restaurateurs fell for a 1960s ranch house on a goat farm just minutes from downtown

Oregonian review [August 28, 2008]
Animal Locomotion: Eadweard Muybridge at Charles A. Harmtman Fine Art

Architecture Week article [August 27, 2008]
Beijing's Bird's Nest: An engineer's perspective.

Oregonian review [August 21, 2008]
"True Nature" at Beppu Wiarda Gallery

Architecture Week article [August 20, 2008]
Beijing's Bird's Nest: An architect's perspective.

Oregonian review [July 25, 2008]
Jacqueline Ehlis at New American Art Union and "High Tech-Low Tech" at Oregon College of Art and Craft

Architecture Week article [July 18, 2008]
Art in Beijing: The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and 798 Art District

Metropolis article [July 14, 2008]
Follow the LEEDer: A conversation with Mark Edlen of Gerding Edlen Development

Oregonian review [July 4, 2008]
Still Popping: Ed Ruscha at the Portland Art Museum

Oregonian review [June 27, 2008]
Floating through glass: Susan Harlan at Pushdot Studio and Heather Gonsior at Newspace Center for Photography

Oregonian review [June 20, 2008]
KayLynn Deveney at Blue Sky Gallery and Dana Lynn Louis at Nine Gallery

Oregonian review [June 16, 2008]
The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards at the Portland Art Museum

Oregonian article [June 6, 2008]
Artful Lodgings at Hotel Modera

Portland Modern article [June 2, 2008]
Rick Potestio: An Original of Northwest Architecture

Film screening [May 29-30, 2008]
Three of Brian's short films--Hello Nassau, Above & Beyond and Go For That--are screening as part of the 5 Minute Film Fest in Denver.

Film screening and DVD [May 28, 2008]
Brian's short film Roppongi Crossing has been selected for the Journal of Short Film's Volume 11 DVD of films by 24 Portland filmmakers. An accompanying screening will be held at the Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium May 28 as part of the Northwest Tracking series.

Oregonian article [May 30, 2008]
An artistic congregation at Milepost 5

Oregonian review [May 9, 2008]
Jess at Reed College's Cooley Gallery

Oregonian review [May 2, 2008]
Woman of the house: Jane Bruce at Bullseye Gallery

Metropolitan Home article [April 2008]
Refreshing Green: The Barnes House in Oklahoma City

Oregonian review [March 27, 2008]
New photography acquisitions at the Portland Art Museum

Oregonian review [March 14, 2008]
Mid-Stride: James Boulton at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery

Edutopia article [March 11, 2008]
Creating "Sustainability Natives": Schools Build Green

Oregonian review [March 7, 2008]
Cosmic Creativity: Elise Wagner at Butters Gallery, Bobby Abrahamson at NewSpace

Oregonian review [March 7, 2008]
Dreamers + Builders: The key players on Portland's architecture and design scene

Oregonian review [February 22, 2008]
Passionate Activism: Michael Patterson Carver at Small A Projects

Film Festival Screening [February 16, 2008]
Brian's short film Demolition of the Rosefriend Apartments will play the Portland International Film Festival as part of the "Made In Oregon" shorts program at 2PM on Saturday, 2/16.

Oregonian review [February 1, 2008]
Light Master: Hap Tivey at Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Oregonian review [January 25, 2008]
Joe Sacco's "Graphic Articles" retrospective at PNCA's Feldman Gallery

Oregonian review [January 18, 2008]
Artistic Combat: Jim Riswold's "War" at Guestroom Gallery

Oregonian review [January 11, 2008]
The sublime within the disposable: Jessica Jackson Hutchins at Small A Projects

Architecture Week article [January 9, 2008]
A LEED Gold Resurrection: Portland's RiverEast Center

Oregonian review [December 28, 2007]
A Quality Potluck: "It's Kind of Endless" at Quality Pictures

Oregonian review [December 7, 2007]
Everyday life, multiplied: Beth Campbell at PNCA's Feldman Gallery and Ann Gale at the Portland Art Museum

Edutopia article [December 3, 2007]
Log On, Don't Drop Out: Technology Trumps Truancy in Los Angeles

Architecture Week article [November 28, 2007]
A Report from the 2007 Greenbuild conference in Chicago

Oregonian review [November 26, 2007]
Reborn Artist, Newly Seen: Randell Sims at New American Art Union and William Kentridge at Lewis & Clark College's Hoffman Gallery

Oregonian review [November 2, 2007]
Breadth and Balance: Amanda Snyder at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Film Festival Screening and Award [October, 2007]
Brian's short film Creamery Birds will play the Northwest Film & Video Festival on November 9, opening night. Creamery Birds was also one of four films selected for a special judge's award.

Sustainable Industries Journal article [October 2007]
Green Monsters: A New Era of Sustainable Sports Stadiums

Oregonian review [October 5, 2007]
Dynamic Duo: Peter Kreider & Marco Lulic at Reed College's Cooley Gallery

Crafts Magazine (UK) review [September/October, 2007]
The new Museum of Contemporary Craft and its opening exhibit, "Craft In America: Expanding Traditions"

Oregonian review [September 18, 2007]
An art tryst for the adventurous: the Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel draws galleries, collectors and spectators interested in what's new

Film Screening [September 14, 2007]
Brian's short film Route 23 will play at Exploding Cinema in London

Oregonian review [September 7, 2007]
An exhibit of prints by the late William Jamison at B. Rogers Gallery

Oregonian review [August 31, 2007]
West coast abstraction meets East Coast grit in the work of Jerry Iversson at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery

News Register article about Brian [August 30, 2007]
'A Fan For All Seasons', by Paul Daquilante, profiles Brian and his book

Book Signing & Reading [August 28, 2007]
Brian will read from and sign copies of his new book, "Tales From the Oregon Ducks Sideline", at Powells Books in Portland at 7:30.

Edutopia article [August 22, 2007]
A Small School That Thinks Big: Creating Community On and Off Campus at MACA

Oregonian review [August 10, 2007]
Context is (almost) everything: Architectural glass at Bullseye Gallery

Oregonian review [August 06, 2007]
No one can 'Camouflage' these piece of art: Andy Warhol and Damien Hurst at the Portland Art Museum

Oregonian review [August 06, 2007]
Picture This: Camille Solyagua at Charles Hartman Fine Art

Oregonian review [July 27, 2007]
Wes Mills at the Portland Art Museum and PDX Contemporary Art

Oregonian review [July 13, 2007]
Portland Modern's annual group show at the Portland Art Center

Oregonian review [July 6, 2007]
Skipper floats for art: David Eckard at Mark Woolley Gallery

Oregonian review [June 22, 2007]
Brad Cloepfil: Alive Drawings, Alive Buildings

Oregonian review [June 8, 2007]
Collectively Compelling: Bob Linder & Will Rogan at Small A Projects

BNET article [June 8, 2007]
How to Nurture New Ideas

Film Show [June 7, 2007]
A collection of Brian's films, called "Brian Libby: Travelogue" will play at the Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium at the Northwest Film Center: Thursday, June 7 at 7PM. (If you can't make it, DVDs are available by request.)

Oregonian review [May 25, 2007]
Art Lasts On Alberta: 10 Years at Guardino Gallery

Oregonian review [May 20, 2007]
Invisible Roots: artist Dinh Q. Le's "From Father To Son: A Rite of Passage"

Oregonian review [May 18, 2007]
When West Meets East: photographer Stuart Hawkins

Oregonian review [May 4, 2007]
Art to Play: sculptor/musical instrument maker Ken Butler

Oregonian review [April 27, 2007]
Collectors Offer Their Own in "Habit Forming"

Oregonian article [April 16, 2007]
Serious Shooters Only Need Apply: Photolucida draws photographers to hear critiques, exhibit work

Edutopia article [March 28, 2007]
Hands-On Tomorrow: for future engineers, a Future City competition

Oregonian review [March 30, 2007]
At a Moment's Notice: Illustrator Sue Coe

Oregonian review [March 9, 2007]
Visions of Yesterday: filmmaker Matt McCormick's "Future's So Bright"

Architecture Week article [March 7, 2007]
Native Engineering: the University of Alaska's Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) building

Oregonian review [February 16, 2007]
Shelf Portraits: the photographs of Marc Joseph

Edutopia article [February 14, 2007]
Apostle of Change: A conversation with Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform

Metropolis article [February 2007]
Tokyo Style: Japan's Hottest Retail Designer, Masamichi Katayama, Comes to America

Oregon Business article [February 2007]
Creating Creative Class: Wieden + Kennedy's John C. Jay

Sustainable Industries Journal article [February 2007]
Breaking Ground: Green Building and Real Estate

Oregonian review [January 29, 2007]
Elliot Erwitt at the Portland Art Museum

Oregonian review [January 18, 2007]
Alberta Street Opens Funky '07