Architecture

Designing the first public performance and visual arts venue in Beaverton, a Portland suburb, was the goal of a recent collaboration between an architecture studio at the University of Oregon in Portland and Opsis Architecture.

Fourteen students took part in the class, “The Beaverton Performing ArtSpace,” taught by James Kalvelage and Joe Baldwin from Opsis. Theater designer Steven Pollock of Auerback Pollock Friedlander also worked with the students on the project, which culminated in June with a final studio review.

Two faculty members from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts have been selected to receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for academic year 2013-14.

Associate Professors Nico Larco and Kate Mondloch were “chosen on the basis of scholarly impact within their respective fields, their contributions to program and institutional quality at the UO, and their academic leadership,” said Jim Bean, UO senior vice president and provost.

A limited number of tickets for public tours this summer of the Watzek House, Oregon’s newest National Historic Landmark, and The Shire, a unique landscape in the Columbia River Gorge, are now available. The tickets are expected to sell out quickly so early registration is recommended. 

Farhad Bahram, a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Art, has been awarded an Oregon University System Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff) Graduate Fellowship for International Research, to begin fall 2013. The award carries a $6,000 stipend.

Lee Nelson’s terminal project at the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 1957 was to design a brewery.

This year’s honoree and commencement speaker, David Ping-yee Lung, has been instrumental in three World Heritage List designations.

Two UO interior architecture students won first place prizes in the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Oregon chapter 2013 Student Day awards held May 4 in Portland.

Brianna Bernstein won in the category of furniture/product design for her project “CU/BE.” Haley Hupp won in the category of small commercial for her project “Crafty Wonderland.” Hupp also took honorable mention at the 2012 IIDA Student Day Retail Studio.

Both Bernstein and Hupp will graduate June 2013 with bachelor degrees in interior architecture.

The Sustainable Cities Initiative was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education on May 20. The story shares the UO’s innovative community engagement model with the nation's higher education community. SCI is a cross-disciplinary program at UO involving architecture, landscape architecture, planning, product design, art, law, journalism and business. While the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) pioneered in Oregon, SCI has been training other universities interested in adopting the model and implementing a version of it in their local communities.

The connection between Oregon and the United Kingdom just lost a champion. Architect Rick Mather, 75, who sponsored six UO students as interns in his award-winning firm, Rick Mather Architects (RMA), passed away April 20 after a short illness. Classmates, former faculty members, and colleagues were stunned as news spread.

Architecture Professor James T. Tice has been selected for the 2013 UO Outstanding Research Career Award, sponsored by the Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education. The award highlights outstanding research activities at the UO.