Thomas Hacker, founder of Portland, Oregon–based architecture office Hacker, died on February 27. Hacker designed some of Oregon’s most prominent and beloved civic, museum, library, and educational buildings, including the High Desert Museum, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, Portland State University’s Urban Center, Beaverton City Library, and Multnomah County’s Woodstock branch library. He was also a teacher at the University of Oregon for 14 years and inspired and mentored two generations of architects at the school and later through his practice.
“Thom couldn’t have been more charismatic if he tried,” recalled Brad Cloepfil, one of his most accomplished students, whose practice, Allied Works Architecture, has
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