BRIC Architecture

BRIC Architecture is a Portland, Oregon practice focused on schools and learning environments, working across K-12, higher education, civic and community projects in the Pacific Northwest. The firm is architect of record on the new Beaverton High School, a $253 million, 300,500-square-foot replacement for the oldest public high school building still in use in Oregon, which opened for the 2026-27 school year. That building was engineered above code for seismic performance, with the segment joints left visible and accessible for inspection, and it carries CTE classrooms, a black box theatre and an on-site student health clinic. BRIC works in a collaborative delivery model with heavy community and district engagement, which is standard practice for Oregon bond-funded school work.

Facilitation is listed as a service line alongside Design and Planning, and that is not decoration. BRIC employs a Participatory Design Manager, and the roughly 68-person staff includes an educational planner, a sustainability director, a BIM manager and a specifications writer. Hiring a full-time role for community-based design process is a structural commitment, and it matches how Oregon school work actually gets funded and approved.

The practice sells that capability upstream, too. Districts can engage BRIC for pre-bond planning before a measure goes to voters, as Newberg School District did.

Active work maps across two states. In Oregon: New Sherwood High School, replacing an overcrowded campus on a new site following a 2016 bond; New Lake Oswego Middle School; the Beaverton High School replacement; the David Douglas High School CTE Center; the Milwaukie High School renovation; and the North Salem High School expansion. In Washington: New Renton High School, and a cafeteria and kitchen remodel at Evergreen High School in Vancouver.

Sustainability is framed around three lenses rather than a certification target: cost and resource savings for the district, health and wellness for the people in the building, and opportunities to fold the building itself into curriculum. The last of those is specific to school work and is the kind of thing that only shows up when a firm designs one building type.

Stated values are empathy, diversity, responsibility, curiosity and community, under the tagline Building Relationships, Inspiring Communities. The office is at 1233 NW Northrup Street, Suite 100, in Portland’s Pearl District.