College of Design News

Jayne Cole Southard's, HA&A PhD '22, Latest Exhibition Reviewed by "The New York Times"

Profiled in "The New York Times" "Newly Reviewed" series, the latest exhibition organized by Howie Chen, UO alumna Jayne Cole Southard, HA&A PhD '22, and Christina Ong is the "Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001)." Billed as "a smart and moving group show at New York University’s 80WSE gallery" by the paper, the exhibition features some 90 different works structured around three foundational grass-roots entities: the arts production and social services hub called Basement Workshop, founded in Chinatown in 1970; the Asian American Arts Centre, a gallery and performance space that debuted in the neighborhood in 1974 (and is still there); and the institution-storming collective Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, which coalesced in 1990.

Test home heralds innovative, greener construction method

In the future, your new home might be delivered by flatpack like an IKEA bookshelf. Instead of a frame of two-by-fours, workers would assemble prefabricated panels that fit together like pieces of a gingerbread house — only much more precisely.

Small House, Big Impact - MPP Workforce Housing Prototype Impressions

Courtesy of the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition and OSU, the following video captures the impressions of the excited group of developers, builders, researchers, and community members who came to tour the MPP Workforce Housing prototype in Corvallis.

SCYP Kicks-off its Fifteenth Year with Oakridge

A bustling crowd of Oakridge city officials, faculty, leadership, and stakeholders came together in the Many Nations Longhouse for a rousing lunch and kick-off for this year's Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP).

UO researchers offer new ways to boost urban green space equity

Using Portland as a case study, a team of UO researchers has developed a more comprehensive way to evaluate urban green space equity. The study was published May 21 in the journal Land. Read more about this study and hear how Landscape Architecture PhD graduate, Evan Elderbrock, was able to help create the landmark study alongside other UO researchers.

MArch Alumna Talks Fulbright Experience in Philippines

MArch '13 alumna, Olivia Mae M. Asuncion, talks about her Fulbright experience in the Philippines.

SAE Hires New School Head

Ulrich "Uli" Dangel is set to join the School of Architecture & Environment as its new head.

If these walls could talk: Inside the Saint-Étienne Cathedral

College of Design History of Art and Architecture PhD Candidate, Gabriela Chitwood, was featured in a recent OPRI article discussing the relationship between Toulouse Cathedral and the local population. Built over 500 years, the cathedral was used in a half-built state for many generations between the 13th and 15th centuries. Chitwood's work explores what it is like to inhabit and interact within the space while it is being built.

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