Architecture

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) and Master Capital Management are hosting an inflatable architecture design contest inspired by the 1970s designs of an experimental architectural group and artist collective. Submissions are due February 1.

All architects, artists, designers, students, faculty, and members of the public are welcome to enter. The JSMA encourages both professionals and amateurs to create teams of three to five people to explore the possibilities of inflatable design.

Bruce Bonine, BArch ‘67, has spent 45 years providing architectural consultation and medical planning services worldwide. After serving as principal at NBBJ for 23 years, in 2004 he founded Medical Facility Innovations, Ltd., of Mercer Island, Washington, which focuses on creative and transformational medical center design worldwide.

Architecture and landscape architecture students in the “OregonBILDS 2” studio at the University of Oregon are designing prototypes for an annual series of classes that will design and build a residence every year, with profits from each unit’s sale poured into a fund to make the program self-perpetuating. A grant from the UO Meyer Fund for a Sustainable Environment helped launch the idea.

“That one is very disorienting,” says Kyu-ho Ahn, handing a visitor eyewear designed to simulate what it’s like to have macular degeneration. The low-vision goggles only allow vision at the outer edges of the eyes, forcing the wearer to turn their body sideways to view reading material, a store aisle, a bus doorway, or a large room, making daily navigation anything but simple.