College of Design

Last term, a partnership with Bora Architecture & Interiors put students at the center of one of civic architecture’s most complex design challenges. This special partnership between the Library Design Studio with Bora Architecture and Interiors, a prominent Portland-based firm working to reimagine community-centered civic design, challenged graduate and upper-level bachelor students to design community libraries from the inside out, working alongside industry professionals on questions that go far beyond aesthetics.

Jayne Cole Southard, HAA PhD '22, alongside fellow curators christina ong and Howie Chen, was awarded the 2025 Best Thematic Museum Show. The exhibition, titled “Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City”, was the first institutional show to survey artists of Asian descent in the city during the period from 1969 to 2001 while being centered around three organizations: Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, the Basement Workshop, and the Asian American Arts Centre.

The College of Design has developed two new options for students looking to get more value from their time at the University of Oregon. The goal? To give high-achieving art history majors and planning, public policy and management majors an opportunity to earn a BA and MA within five years.

School of Architecture & Environment students recently created models for the hospital of tomorrow for their end-of-term reviews, using mass timber as a base for the projects.

Maude I. Kerns Professor Emerita of Asian Art talks to "Popular Science" about why Elks were traditionally depicated in ancient art as monstrous.

When international, award-winning design firm, 13&9 Design, searched for research to help center their design philosophy to a more biophilic focused, the team turned to Richard Taylor's stellar research on fractals.