Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural John Reynolds Sustainability Symposium at the UO campus in Eugene on Sunday, May 17. A pre-symposium dinner gathering will be held Saturday, May 16, with presenters, sponsors, faculty members and special guests from 6-9 p.m. Tickets for the symposium and dinner are available online or by phone at 541-346-4363.
Portland planner and longtime Historic Landmarks Commission member Leo Dean Williams is being honored with the seventh annual George McMath Historic Preservation Award. For nearly thirty years, Williams, an urban design architect, was an essential member of a team of civic leaders who created, expanded, and implemented Portland’s historic preservation program. He is also credited for reinstituting urban rail in Portland.
Collaborative works by Assistant Professor Trygve Faste, in the UO Product Design Program, and Instructor Jessica Swanson, in the Department of Art, are featured in an upcoming exhibit at the Bellevue Arts Museum featuring young designers in the Pacific Northwest. Faste and Swanson’s studio, "Something Like This Design," is an experimental studio that creates thoughtful, functional designs and ceramic work.
The United States Society for Education Through Art has awarded UO Senior Vice Provost Doug Blandy its National Ziegfeld Award for his research in arts education.
Kiara K. Galicinao, a third-year undergraduate in the Department of Architecture, is this year’s Hatfield Architectural Scholar, presented by the Architectural Foundation of Oregon (afo). The award, announced in 2014 for the 2015 award year, includes a $2,000 scholarship.
Professor Terri Warpinski opened a show, “Liminal Matter: Fences,” in Portland at the gallery at Passages Bookshop on Saturday, April 4. “Liminal Matter: Fences” is the inaugural exhibition at the gallery, a new exhibition space on the top floor of the Towne Storage building in Portland’s Central Eastside, 17 SE Third Avenue, #502. The show will be on display through April.
Nearly concurrently, Warpinski’s “Surface Tensions” exhibition opened at Northwestern University’s Dittmar Memorial Gallery in Evanston, Illinois, on April 2 and runs through May 8.
The Seattle-based Miller Hull Partnership, one of the nation’s leading design firms, demonstrates its commitment to student success in more ways than one.
The firm has established a new endowment fund at the UO to support architecture and interior architecture graduate student scholarships and continues its on-site internship program for undergraduate students in the Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture Program.
Artist, filmmaker, and designer Vincent Angel and writer Sommer Browning have collaborated on the upcoming exhibition Parker Venus Daylight, which opens April 11 at Pacific Sky Exhibitions, 180 West 12th Avenue, in Eugene.
Parker Venus Daylight will feature a new series of visual artworks from Angel supplemented with a written response from Browning, which will be printed as a take-away tabloid for visitors.
For many, immigration to the United States is symbolized by Ellis Island and its welcoming of the poor and oppressed from the Old World. While the story of European migration to the U.S. is well known, however, the experience of many Asian Americans is not.
Edward Jepson, courtesy research associate in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, has coauthored “Zoning for Sustainability: A Review and Analysis of the Zoning Ordinances of 32 Cities in the United States” in the December 16 issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association. In the “takeaway for practice” accompanying the article, Jepson, with coauthor Anna L.
