Insights

Erin Reome and Resiliency Work at SERA

by | October 20, 2022 0 News + Announcements

SERA Senior Associate and Resiliency Planner Erin Reome is being honored next week with a Women of Vision award from the Oregon DJC. This award recognizes women who are shaping the built environment with their technical skill, leadership, mentoring, and community involvement, and we thought it would give us a great chance to highlight some […]

SERA’s Offices: One firm’s answer to the big workplace question

by | October 13, 2022 1 Ideas

In the wake of the world’s forced experiment with remote work, employers everywhere are asking big questions about how to address modern workplace needs. We hear that “hybrid is here to stay” and that employees don’t want to give up their work-from-home freedoms. But we also hear that people like going to work and that […]

Indigenous People’s Day 2022

by | October 7, 2022 0 Ideas, News + Announcements

  In honor of Indigenous People’s Day on Monday, we recognize and show our respect for Native People who have understood for generations how to live in harmony with the land, water, and all other living things. SERA has learned so much about tribal culture and world views from working with the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest […]

A new approach to master planning in the Bay Area: Lagoon Valley

by | September 22, 2022 0 Ideas, Urban Design + Planning

Let’s not build another disconnected business park. We are all familiar with typical, highway-adjacent, suburbanized, business and industrial parks that feature monolithic, enclosed office buildings surrounded by networks of empty sidewalks, water-gobbling lawns, and acres of parking lots. Created during an era when planners thought activities should be separated physically, business parks assume that people […]

Interview with Trevor Parham, Founder of Oakstop, an Oakland-based Co-working Space that Centers Communities of Color

by | August 11, 2022 0 Ideas

Trevor Parham is an artist, entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Oakstop, a Black-owned, Oakland-based, community-powered ecosystem of co-working and event spaces for entrepreneurs and communities of color. He is also a co-founder of the Oakland Black Business Fund, an investment platform focused on empowering Black businesses with capital, technical assistance, and growth strategies, which is […]

The Galleria: Celebrating SERA’s New Space

by | July 22, 2022 1 Ideas

SERA Architects is spending the summer of 2022 relocating to our new Portland headquarters. Our new home is a healthy, flexible, seismically safe workplace in one of downtown Portland’s grandest historic buildings—and we’re making this move at an auspicious time. After more than two years of working from home, the whole world is reflecting on […]

SERA Celebrates New Leaders in Portland and Oakland!

by | March 14, 2022 2 News + Announcements

SERA’s Principal group held a celebratory toast last week to announce 21 promotions at an array of levels across the firm. The promotions included five Associates, 10 Senior Associates, three Principals, and three newly created positions. The event was SERA’s first major in-person gathering since the onset of the pandemic, with live celebrations in both […]

Collaborative Climate Solutions Start with Carbon Benchmarking

by | December 16, 2021 0 Ideas, Sustainability

The West Coast has experienced an astonishing number of climate-related catastrophes in recent years. Wildfires created widespread devastation and smoke-choked air, atmospheric rivers resulted in extensive flooding, and a heat dome shattered records and resulted in a significant number of deaths. As architects, we know our work has a significant impact on the climate, and […]