Alexis Coir

Background

About Alexis Coir

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, I spent most of my childhood growing up in the arts & architecture community of Cranbrook, where my father was the director of archives. Weekly life consisted of running through the campus grounds where we lived, while weekends our family headed downtown to spend time with friends and the many cultural events of the city. This dichotomy of city to campus strongly shaped my sentiment that architecture first and foremost has a responsibility to the immediate society it serves. Currently an Associate at Waechter Architecture in Portland, I led the design construction of the Mississippi Workshop – an innovative CLT building that pushes the boundaries of seismic design and fire engineering. I also hold a deep interest in architectural education and historical analysis. Alongside others at Waechter, I co-taught a studio course at the University of Oregon's Portland campus titled “The All-Wood Building”, and have worked for more than a decade digitally reconstructing Cistercian gothic structures for academic publication with a team of archaeologists from Wesleyan and Brown Universities.