Kenneth J. Diener

An Architect/Planner and designer, skilled at creating unique and efficient solutions for each opportunity.

A leader of in-house and consultant teams for a wide range of projects and scales.

Design skills excel at integrating topographic, code, and site context to create meaningful forms and user experiences.

Adept at facilitating 3D client communication and design processes.

A key tenet of my practice is that all projects, no matter the scale or client, are people-based and people-driven.

Teaching Architectural Design Studio at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

Portland Classical Chinese Garden: Over 2500 hours of volunteering, led tours every Wednesday.

Presented three First Saturday (Chinese Garden/Culture and Architecture) lectures

Local neighborhood land use boards and neighborhood corridor planning.

Save Buckman Pool lobbying for more than five budget cycles, board member of the “Friends of Buckman Pool”.

Certified volunteer in earthquake and emergency procedures; Portland’s Neighborhood Emergency Team member.

Past member of Oregon’s DLCD’s model code committee and ODOT’s Access Management Advisory  Committee.

A Retail Task Force lobbyist for private development interests in the state of Oregon.

Specialized in four project types: Retail, Hospitality, Residential, and Healthcare/Tech.

Laboratory, research facilities, security projects, campus rehabs and planning revisions. Post-occupancy reports from the users rate our projects the best they have worked on.

Led feasibility, planning, and permitting teams for recurring clientele of large retailers, including The Home Depot, Safeway, Fred Meyer (Kroger Grocer).

Tribal Planning for the Grand Ronde and Siletz Tribes. Tribal headquarters master planning and off reservation investment properties. Keiser Design Review approval for a jointly owned retail/light industrial campus.

Collaborations with Home Builders and other Architectural firms.

Responsible for design charrettes and marketing packages.

Niketown Seattle – Led the design team for a schematic phase study.

Fred Meyer – prototypes and renovations.

Warm Springs Reservation: Responsible for presentation models, reports, and Tribal council presentations for HWY 97 retail town centers, museum master plans, and corridor study.

Riverwatch urban renewal district plan and unit types for New Brunswick, NJ.

Shopping mall design development for public areas and food courts.

DuPont plastics research facility – use of products for construction showcase, campus and building schematic design.

Resort master plan and prototype housing designs in Bass Lake, Virginia.

A 90-unit phase for the Vines golf course development, competition and follow-up design development.

Led the team for a full federation-style hotel and public amenities, renovations, master plan and new unit schematic design. Augusta, Western Australia

Albany Waterfront master plan with Trevor Saleeba Architect

Master plans for historic estates highly sensitive to unique landscape features for subdivisions and  condominiums.  

Project architect for CD packages for new 1920s-era Tudor-style mansions.

Custom contemporary residential homes/condominiums and interiors property master plans, Sanibel Island, Florida, Telluride, Colorado, coastal Maine.

Residential additions and San Francisco rehabs, residential and institutional.

Industrial park tilt-up projects.

Corporate headquarters, Silicon Valley.

Custom home and First District café projects.

Existing drawings for 19th Century, First District, renovations.

The Stuttgart Opera House renovation competition study model builder.

Architects Neil Guda, Copper & Copper, Copper & Associates, Teare Hermann Gibons

Master of Architecture, M.I.T.

Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture, North Carolina State University

Senior semester at Technische Universität – Institute for Housing, Vienna, Austria.

AIA Book Award – faculty award for top designer in graduating class

Large internal and consultant team management

3D modeling –SketchUp/Layout

Planning and Zoning – Win/Win Planning Strategy and Design, Team Management, Text and Exhibit Submittals, Presentations, and Approval Coordination.

AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, Publisher, Office, Photoshop, Corel, Bluebeam, and E-Builder.