Kevin Cavenaugh

Cavenaugh is from California. He studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Loeb fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.[5]

Exterior of the Fair-Haired Dumbbell

Cavenaugh is a real estate developer and designer,[6][7] and the founder and owner of Guerrilla Development. He became a developer in 2001,[1] and was an intern with Fletcher Farr Ayotte, as of 2004.[8] Cavenaugh is known for his views on affordable housing, displacement, and gentrification.[9] His projects have included:

• Atomic Orchard Experiment[10]
• Box & One Lofts[8]
• Burnside Rocket[11][12]
• "Dr. Jim's Still Really Nice"[13]
• Fair-Haired Dumbbell[14][15]
• "Jolene's First Cousin"[13][16]
• "The Ocean"[6][11]
• Pub at the End of the Universe[17]
• "Rig-a-Hut"[13][18]
• Standard Dairy building[5]
• Tree Farm
• Two-Thirds (8735 North Lombard Street)[19]
• Zipper[14]

In 2018, Cavenaugh and his five colleagues at Guerrilla all received the same compensation for one year, regardless of position or length of employment, to "[equalize] the boss to employee ratio" and eliminate any possible gender pay gap.[20]

Two of Cavenaugh's projects, Jolene's First Cousin and Atomic Orchard Experiment, will have units reserved for homeless people and social workers.[15]

After working for Peace Corps in Gabon, he relocated to Portland, Oregon during the 1990s.[5]

Cavenaugh and his wife live in Portland with their three children,[6] as of 2016.[5]