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Memorials and Museums of Conflict and War 4
Honoring Julia Demichelis 6
Pritzker Architecture Prize Course 7
SPRING 2007 . VOL . XXV NO.1
“When I came to the UO (less than eighteen short
months ago) it was for the power of this creative
enterprise. Where else could I find public policy in
the same school as fiber arts? Where else could a
bike-pedestrian academic center be informed by
landscape and sculptural decisions –
although it seems obvious now?”
Dean Frances Bronet
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2006–2007 Board of Visitors
Executive Committee
Chair
Gordon Chong, FAIA, San Francisco, CA
Vice Chair
Linda Hummel Parker, San Francisco, CA
Secretary/Treasurer
Art Johnson, P.E., S.E., Portland, OR
At-Large
Nancy Pobanz, Eugene, OR
Karen Niemi, IIDA, Portland, OR
Libby Unthank Tower, Eugene, OR
Past Chair
Kent Duffy, AIA, Portland, OR
Members
Stewart Ankrom, AIA, Portland, OR
Meagan Atiyeh, Salem, OR
Dick Benner, Portland, OR
Brad Cloepfil, Portland, OR
David Cohen, Portland, OR
Art DeMuro, Portland, OR
David Donaldson, SPHR, Lake Oswego, OR
Jani Hoberg Hicks, Eugene, OR
Hue-Ping Lin, Ph.D., Eugene, OR
Doug Macy, FASLA, Portland, OR
Paul Morris, FASLA, Washington, D.C.
Laura Paulson, New York, NY
Michael Reed, Portland, OR
Steve Sandstrom, Portland, OR
Mitchell Smith, Bellevue, WA
Ellen Tykeson, Eugene, OR
Sohrab Vossoughi, Portland, OR
Frank Webb, AIA, Los Angeles, CA
Priscilla West, Ph.D., Eugene, OR
Michael Wilkes, FAIA, San Diego, CA
Don Williams, Eugene, OR
Gill Williams, ASLA, Portland, OR
Alfred Wojciechowski, AIA, Boston, MA
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Assistant Dean
Karen J. Johnson
Program Coordinator
Kara Rowan
Editor
Rachel Johnson, GTF
Graphic Designer
Allison Bryan, GTF
Staff Photographer
Patrick Arlt
Contributors
Doug Blandy
Elizabeth Christensen
Howard Davis
Kassia Dellabough
Deborah Hurtt
Renee Irvin
Alison Kwok
Melody Ward Leslie
Kelly O’Brien
Erika Price
Heather Scotten
Alison Snyder
Ed Teague
Kartz Ucci
Yizhao Yang
Cover: The Iraq Body Count Memorial was dedicated
January 25th and was on view for several weeks on the
UO Memorial Quad. The memorial consisted of 115,000
flags; each white flag represented six Iraqi casualties,
and each red flag represented one U.S. soldier casulty.
Inset photograph by Jack Liu.
Dean’s Column
D
uring a recent brainstorming session on the future of universities, and this one in
particular, I was part of the discussion with institutional leaders who talked about what a
university is, what ours is, what does research show?
You can imagine the words, the key visions, and concepts:
• academic excellence • broad-based liberal arts education
• best-educated, future professionals • search for truth
• change the world • new understandings through research
• nurturing the human mind and spirit and creativity
• respecting history and traditions
• “high seminary of learning”
• holding public esteem
• solve the most challenging social,
• advance the well-being of the state cultural, educational, entrepreneurial,
and the global community through communicative, technical, and health the creation and dissemination of related problems
knowledge In some ways all of this visioning and brainstorming could be anywhere. And while this
was going on, I was thinking “pink…” And just like you – a room full of brilliant intellectuals,
progressive leaders, and core strategic thinkers stopped their note taking, their imagining,
their Black-Berrying.
“Pink? What’s that?” Pink slips, pink eye, Pink Floyd, Pink Panther, pink salmon, pink
sheets, pink noise, pretty in…, or a new way of bringing back the McCarthy era?
What I was thinking was “no preconceptions.” After all, what do all those pink descriptors
have in common? They have no automatic consistency, a situation of an aleatory arena, based
on chance (the toss of dice), unpredictable, a liminal condition, transgressing boundaries
fearlessly; a moment during which we are “in between,” neither one category nor the other.
“This liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy,” according
to Wikipedia. A time for unbridled creativity.
These indeterminate moments are also the richest moment for creativity. These are
times when tolerance, our incredible abilities, and the technological context we are entering, collide.
Creativity calls upon us to be visionaries, integrators, and cultural stewards. As technologists or as reflectors, we must continually revisit our relationships and grasp opportunities
to negotiate and transform the power structures in which we operate daily.
In my brief time here, I have seen service joined with art, deep historical with theoretical
investigations, transportation with environment, security without gates, new materials with
an infrastructure for a higher and more judiciously distributed quality of life, electronic ways
to connect learning from Eugene to Shandong.
The students here challenge all structures, starting with uncharted multiple majors,
leading environmental conferences, campus and community engagement, environmental
and legislative outreach, building homes and curricula. They are e-critics, YouTube mavens,
blog posters, anime wizards, avatar artists, and webmasters, creative and technologically
literate wonder kids who challenge all of us gatekeepers.
I look forward to unanticipated and responsible partnerships.
Frances Bronet
Dean
faculty Research
Stunning New Book on Green Design
Practical Solutions for Integrated Design Processes
ALISON KWOK
A
n important new publication
has been added to the list of
sustainable design books by
University of Oregon faculty members:
The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design
(Architectural Press, Oxford, 2007) by
architecture professor Alison G. Kwok,
Ph.D., AIA, LEED AP, and Walter T.
Grondzik, P.E., LEED AP, a professor of
architecture at Florida A&M University.
The book is already an entry on the
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) International Book Awards 2007
list, celebrating the highest standard of
architectural writing and publishing.
An essential reference guide, the
book offers practical approaches in
green design for twenty-first century
architecture professionals and students.
The Green Studio Handbook is a handsome 372-page volume with 422 fullcolor photographs and line drawings
illustrating the application of green
strategies during the schematic design
of buildings.
Exploring green design strategies for
the building envelope, lighting, heating, cooling, energy production, waste
and water, Kwok and Grondzik identify
passive and active approaches. Each of
forty selected environmental strategies
includes a brief description of principles and concepts, step-by-step advice
for integrating green strategies into the
early stage of design, annotated tables
and charts to assist with preliminary
sizing, as well as a summary of key issues to be addressed and references to
additional resources.
“The process by which these [new]
buildings get built show that not only
are our building materials and systems evolving, but so is the means by
which we design and build them,”
explains recent alumnus, David Posada
(M.Arch.’05), GBD Architects, Portland,
Oregon.
Significant green projects worldwide
are noted. Nine case studies include
One Peking Road tower (Hong Kong),
National Association of Realtors Headquarters (the first green building in
Above: Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) by Bill Dunster Architects
with Ove Arup & Partners, provides ecologically-sound urban housing and workplaces
in southwest London and produces no net
carbon dioxide emissions from energy use.
Above: Cover of The Green Studio Handbook:
Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design by Kwok and Grondzik.
Washington, D.C.), The Helena Apartment Tower (the first private-sector
green building of its type in New York
City), Arup Campus Solihull (UK),
Beddington Zero Energy Development
(Wallington, Surrey, UK), 2005 Cornell
Solar Decathlon House (Washington,
D.C.), Druk White Lotus School (Shay,
Ladakh, India), Habitat Research and
Development Centre (Windhoek, Namibia, Africa) and University of Oregon’s Lillis Business Complex. Lillis,
designed by SRG Partnership, Inc., of
Portland, Oregon, received LEED Silver
Certification and is a showcase of high
performance sustainable design as well
as a key initiative in the University’s
on-going campus-wide sustainability
efforts.
Kwok has been president of the
Society of Building Science Educators
and was elected to the Architectural
Research Centers Consortium (ARCC)
board. She is the organizer of the ARCC
Spring Research Conference, “Green
Challenges in Research, Practice, and
Design Education,” to be held in Eugene, Oregon, April 16–18, 2007. Her
pioneering work with the “Agents of
Change Project,” is supported by the
U.S. Department of Education Fund
for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE). She received
a University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award in 2007 and has been on
the faculty since 1998. Grondzik has
served as visiting professor to the University of Oregon in 2000-01, 2003-04,
2005-06 and has taught design studios,
environmental systems, and advanced
technology electives.
The book is available at the UO
Bookstore, architecturalpress.com,
amazon.com, and other book venues.
UO Authors of Design Books on Sustainability
Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, 10th edition, J. Reynolds, B. Stein, W. Grondzik,
A. Kwok, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2006 • Natural Ventilation in Northwest Buildings, G.Z.
Brown, J. Kline, G. Livingston, D. Northcutt, and D. Wright, 2004 • Courtyards: Aesthetic, Social
and Thermal Delight, J. Reynolds, John Wiley & Sons, 2002 • Ecology and Design: Frameworks
for Learning, B. Johnson, K. Hill, Island Press, Washington D.C., 2002 • Sun, Wind, and Light:
Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd edition, G.Z. Brown, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001
• “Integrated watershed management for river conservation–perspectives from experiences in
Australia and the United States,” Hooper, B. and Margerum, R., in Global Perspectives in River
Conservation: Science, Policy, and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, 2000 • InsideOut: Design
Procedures for Passive Environmental Technologies, G.Z. Brown, J. Reynolds, M.S. Ubbeholde,
J. Loveland, B. Haglund, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2nd edition, 1992.
interdisciplinary INITIATIVE
Cities in War, Struggle, and Peace:
The Architecture of Memory and Life
H
ow can artists, architects,
landscape architects, arts
managers, and historians
represent or convey the memory of war
in times of peace? Can designers create
museums and memorials that are built
in the hope that memory might help
prevent future conflict?
This winter, an interdisciplinary
group of historians, architects, critics,
and exhibition designers gave lectures
at the University of Oregon that were
intended to help further the understanding of war and peace through their
knowledge of buildings and memorials
inspired by war and human struggle.
These presentations were part of “Memorials and Museums of Conflict and
War”, a major, six-part, public lecture
series sponsored by the Carlton and
Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment for
International Relations and Peace, as
well as the Oregon Humanities Center,
and the School of Architecture and
Allied Arts.
All of the lectures in the series focused on the representation of conflicts
and violence in buildings and museums. Professor of Architecture Howard
Davis organized the lecture series as
part of a two-year program, “Cities in
War, Struggle and Peace: The Architecture of Memory and Life,” which also
includes student seminars, a design
competition, and a second lecture series
planned for next year.
Five lecturers visited the UO campus
during winter 2007, each one attracting between 350 and 400 attendees
to their presentations. On January 17,
Edward Linenthal, a professor of history at Indiana University and editor
of the Journal of American History,
spoke about historic and contemporary
American memorials in his lecture,
“From Lexington and Concord to 911: America’s Memorial Landscape of
Violence.” Linenthal currently serves
on the federal advisory commission for
the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania.
On January 24, University of Oregon
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
Washington, D.C. Exhibition design by Ralph
Appelbaum.
professors Kenneth Helphand and
David Luebke gave a lecture, titled
“The Site of Violence: Ethics, Objects,
Places,” about how places of violence
are interpreted. Helphand is the author
of Defiant Gardens, a book concerning
gardens planted under conditions of
war. Luebke was the staff historian
for the Permanent Exhibition Team at
the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C.
Jo Noero, an architect from South
Africa and professor at the University
of Cape Town, spoke on January 31
about the Red Location Museum of
the People’s Struggle in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The
museum memorializes the struggles of
the apartheid era and has won many
international awards, including the
RIBA International Award.
On February 7, architect and architectural critic, Michael Sorkin,
presented “Back to Zero,” a lecture
cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center as the Colin Raugh Thomas
O’Fallon Memorial Lecture. The lecture examined the controversies and
difficulties surrounding the efforts to
build a memorial at the World Trade
Center Site.
Ralph Applebaum, an exhibition
designer from New York, gave a lecture
on February 21 titled “Examining War
in the Museum Environment,” in which
he presented a visual tour through the
U.S. Holocaust Museum’s exhibits.
Applebaum has won over ninety-five
awards for museum and exhibition design, including the Presidential Design
Award. His projects include the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
the National Constitution Center, the
Clinton Presidential Library, and the
Newseum.
The final lecture in the series, “The
Architecture of Memory,” will be presented in May by Moshe Safdie. Safdie
is an architect who has worked in the
U.S., Canada, and Israel on projects including the National Gallery of Canada
in Ottawa, the Peabody Essex Museum
in Salem, Massachusetts, and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jeruselem.
STUDENT SEMINAR
The student seminar component of the
“Architecture of Memory and Life”
program was created to engage students
in a deeper architectural investigation
through group discussion. Taught by
Professor Howard Davis, the winter
term seminar explored the role of
commemorative museums in drawing
attention to war and struggle, and to the
creation of architectural and exhibition
designs that acknowledge suffering and
facilitate healing. Architecture graduate
student Kyle Caldwell explained that
the seminar course “has helped [him]
see the power and unintentional symbolic meaning in architecture.”
The seminar, which consists of
thirty architecture and arts and administration students, has initiated an
important multi-disciplinary dialog.
According to arts and administration
graduate student Betsy Bostwick, the
seminar has been highly rewarding
because “both architects and museum
administrators are interested in how
people experience space, and both are
interested in creating spaces which are
A major two-year program organized by Professor Howard Davis
helps further understanding of war and peace.
engaging to the public.” Through the
seminar UO students have had a unique
opportunity to investigate the ways in
which museums and memorials can
recreate place and redefine identity.
STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
The purpose of the student design
competition, which was announced in
January with the beginning of the Architecture of Memory and Life program,
was to create a memorial or exhibit that
could be installed on the UO campus
that addressed war or social struggle.
Approximately twenty designs were
submitted, which ranged from memorials that addressed war and peace to
memorials that addressed homelessness and HIV. The jury, which consisted of architect Jo Noero, Professor
of Architecture Don Corner, Assistant
Professor of Architecture Nico Larco,
and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture Alison Snyder, selected two
first place designs and two honorable
mentions. The competition winners
were announced at a public event on
February 3, and cash prizes of $175 to
the first place designs and $50 to the
honorable mentions were awarded.
The first place winners were architecture graduate student Kyle Caldwell
for his design “Erasure: Requiem for
Memory,” and undergraduate architecture student John Pete and graduate
student Nicole Pete for their war memorial. Caldwell’s design utilized mounds,
steel walls, and clay figures to tell the
brutal story of the death and displacement of native peoples, the Winnefelly,
who once occupied Eugene. Caldwell
has attempted through his design to
“explain the cause of the erasure of the
Winnefelly while providing a window
of personal communication to the individuals who were erased.”
John Pete and Nicole Pete’s memorial
was intended to “raise awareness of the
realities of war by allowing the events
happening overseas to become imprinted here at home.”
The student design
competition winners
and jurors. From left
to right: Lucas Spiegel,
Kyle Caldwell, Newton
Breiter, Howard Davis,
Jo Noero, John Pete and
Nicole Pete.
Red Location
Museum of
the People’s
Struggle,
New Brighton, Port
Elizabeth,
South Africa.
Jo Noero,
Architect.
Their design
consisted of
stone walls,
each stone
has a copper plate which bears the name
of a soldier. The walls are intended to
grow over time as more Oregon soldiers
are deployed to the Middle East.
Honorable mentions went to graduate landscape architecture students
Newton Breiter and Jason Wells whose
design, “The Memorial as Hologram,”
addressed HIV; and to graduate landscape architecture student Tyler Polich
and undergraduate architecture student
Lucas Spiegel whose design addressed
the harsh realties of war through a
labyrinthine-like monument created
by earthen walls.
All of the design submissions exemplified the power of memorials to draw
attention to unseen or forgotten events.
The twenty designs were on display in
the Willcox Hearth during February.
Campus Memorial Design
Competition Winners
The winning designs,
from left to right:
Frist place winners
Kyle Caldwell’s
“Erasure: Requiem
for Memory” and
John Pete and Nicole
Pete’s war memorial,
and honorable mentions Tyler Polich and
Lucas Spiegel’s war
memorial and Newton Breiter and Jason
Wells’s “The Memorial as Hologram.”
Ellis F. Lawrence Medal
A&AA Honors Julia Demichelis
Development specialist assists international transitional societies.
rity, educational
philosophy, and
excellence demonstrated by Ellis
F. Lawrence, the
first dean of the
School of Architecture and Allied
Arts.
After graduating from Georgetown University
in 1981, Demichelis entered the
Peace Corps and
was sent to Ghana,
where she evaluated and redesigned a
program to improve agricultural development. Her work was so profound that
the Peace Corps Association awarded
her the 1999 Sargent Shriver Award,
the most prestigious award bestowed
on a Peace Corps alumnus.
Upon returning from Ghana, Julia
came to the University of Oregon for
a master of urban planning degree in
disaster preparedness and planning
from the Department of Planning,
Public Policy and Management. She
envisioned a career in disaster preparedness in Oregon, but in her last
year at UO she received a phone call
from the International Red Cross urging
her to return to western Africa to initiate community development programs
amidst a violent war in Liberia and Cote
d’Ivoire. The planning skills she had
acquired in Oregon now became
important skills in the global arena.
She completed her degree and accepted the assignment.
That was 1991. Several wars,
human crises and over thirty countries later, Demichelis went to Iraq
where she led a team to assist the
Iraqi National Assembly to establish
itself as the professional institution
it remains today amidst an emerging democracy. Now, in Morocco,
she provides tools to the parliament
Top: Iraqi Parliament Deliberative Space.
Bottom: Former adversaries work together to to withstand its challenges. Julia
recalls, “My life journey through
create a shared recreation space.
ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF JULIA DEMICHELIS
J
ulia Demichelis is the recipient of
the 2007 Ellis F. Lawrence Medal,
the highest honor awarded by the
School of Architecture & Allied Arts.
As a community development specialist, Julia has spent over fifteen years
transforming war-torn villages into habitable communities through catalyzing
at-risk populations to reassume nonviolent roles. Demichelis has lived and
worked nearly exclusively in complex
emergencies and post-conflict societies
as an expression of her principles of
multi-ethnic/religious co-existence, tolerance, and human diversity. She has
often forged solutions amidst so-called
“intractable” conflicts. She has directed
projects for The American Red Cross,
the United States Institute of Peace,
World Bank, and non-governmental
organizations in Sierra Leone, Burundi,
the former Yugoslav States, Malawi,
Bulgaria, Iraq, and Senegal.
The Lawrence Medal is awarded annually to an A&AA distinguished alumnus whose achievements exemplify
the Oregon spirit and reflect the integ-
Above: Julia
Demichelis
in the
Morocco
parliment
building.
Left: Hutus
and Tutsi
ex-combatants learn
new skills to
reconstruct
their wartorn villages.
genocides and liberation wars, human
trafficking networks and autocratic regimes, has taken me a world away from
the county planning office in Oregon
that I sought to join.”
Through the years Demichelis has
successfully adapted her skills to
develop programs in complex social,
economic, and political contexts: antiterrorist programs, multi-ethnic reconciliation, military, civil, humanitarian
and security operations, communitybased HIV/AIDS and anti-corruption
programs, pre-bombing campaign mass
population movements, NGO/civil
society policy in emerging democracies, and parliamentary legislative
strengthening.
Demichelis will be presented with
the Lawrence Medal at the June 16,
2007, A&AA commencement ceremony.
In addition, there will be a reception
honoring her on Friday, June 15. For
information, call 541-346-1442.
program focus
Pritzker Prize Winner Inspires Students
Assistant Professor Deborah Hurtt offers a cross-disciplinary
class about contemporary architecture.
E
xposing students to the major
trends in recent and contemporary architecture was the goal
of Assistant Professor of Art History
Deborah Hurtt in her fall course, The
Pritzker Prizewinners. The course
covered the 27-year history of the
prestigious architecture prize, touching on each of the yearly winners, as
well as on other notable contemporary
architects. This is the third time that
Hurtt has taught her Pritzker Prizewinners course,
but this year was
special because
it coincided with
the completion of
the new Wayne
L. Morse United
States Courthouse
in Eugene and a
visit by the courthouse architect,
Thom Mayne, the
2005 Laureate of
the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Many consider the Pritzker Prize to opportunity for her students to meet a
be architecture’s Nobel Prize. The Prize Pritzker prizewinner and learn more
was established by The Hyatt Founda- about his work. “It was the perfect
tion in 1979 to “honor annually a living culmination of the course,” Hurtt said.
architect whose built work demonstrates Students toured the sleek, 270,000a combination of those qualities of tal- square-foot federal courthouse prior
ent, vision, and commitment, which to its opening in December, and also
had the rare ophas produced con“This building is a new idiom.
portunity to hear
sistent and signifiCourthouse design is often
Mayne speak in
cant contributions
thought of as a box to decorate. Eugene about his
to humanity and the
This courthouse expresses the
design for the
built environment
function of the courtroom. ”
courthouse and
through the art of
his other archiarchitecture.” Ex-Thom Mayne
tectural work.
emplifying the criUndergraduate art history student
teria of the prize, Thom Mayne founded
his architecture firm, Morphosis, to Jessie Lenhardt describes this experisurpass the bounds of traditional forms ence, “It was only after meeting Thom
and materials, while also working to Mayne, that I realized that I was meetcarve out a territory beyond the limits ing a legend, a man whose works the
architectural world considered on par
of modernism and postmodernism.
Professor Hurtt said the visit by with Gehry and Stirling.”
Undergraduate architecture stuMayne and the completion of the
courthouse was not the main focus of dent Patrick Berning said, “Thom
the course, but it provided an amazing Mayne, infamous as a bad-boy architect,
Left: Pritzker
Prize winning
architect Thom
Mayne spoke
to students
in Eugene in
December.
Far lower left:
The Wayne
L. Morse
United States
Courthouse
in Eugene
designed by
Mayne.
Left: Assistant
Professor of
Art History
Deborah Hurtt.
has crafted a
building that
has been well
received by its
users and raises the bar in an
architecturally
conservative town. Regardless of what
the general public thinks about the
courthouse, Mayne has stirred the pot
of Eugene architecture while creating a
beautifully functional building.”
In addition to the course’s historic
focus on the Pritzker laureates, Professor Hurtt encouraged students to
explore trends in contemporary architecture through a series of critical
research assignments on architects
practicing today. By the end of the
course, Hurtt challenged her students
to ask the question, “Who will win the
next Pritzker Prize?”
Professor Hurtt received her Ph.D.
from the University of Virginia in
2005. She teaches both graduate and
undergraduate courses in architectural
history. Her research explores the architecture of the mid-twentieth century,
particularly with respect to how diverse conceptions and practices of the
modern affect issues of political and
cultural identity as well as subsequent
understandings of the postmodern. She
plans to continue offering The Pritzker
Prizewinners course in the future.
NEWS & UPDATES
Lawrence Hall’s
southeast stairwell
was anonymously
painted over
winter break with
portraits of architecture professors
Howard Davis,
Gary Moye, Jim
Tice, Alison Kwok,
and G. Z. Brown.
A&AA
Room Dedicated to GarRy Fritz
The newly renovated Lawrence Hall Room
177 was dedicated at a ribbon cutting ceremony on January 26, 2007, as the Garry
B Fritz Room. Garry Fritz was an architect
and former head of capital projects for
University Facilities Services. He began
the work on the renovation of Room 177
in April of 2004 and was in charge of all
aspects of the room’s design. His goal
in designing and improving the lecture
hall was to create an enjoyable place for
faculty to teach and for students to learn.
Fritz passed away unexpectedly in June of
2004, before the room’s completion. Fritz
graduated from the School of Architecture
and Allied Arts with a bachelor’s degree in
architecture in 1973. University President
David Frohnmayer described the dedication ceremony as a “celebration of the
contributions of a man whose legacy we
will continue to honor.”
The new room renovations include the
addition of an accessibility ramp to the front
of the room, improvements to the room
acoustics, the addition of a projector and
screen, and new seating.
PODS UPDATE
The Office of Professional
Outreach and Development for Students (PODS)
launched three career development classes during
winter term to help over 75 students from
across the A&AA disciplines to develop job
search strategies, portfolios, and interview
skills. Students are preparing for the Fourth
Annual Career Symposium to be held at the
Governor Hotel in Portland on April 26, as
well as for graduation in June. (For Career
Symposium info, email pods@uoregon.edu.)
The career explorations class joined the
Board of Visitors for lunch in November,
and students had an opportunity to explore
different perspectives one-to-one with
Above: Students share lunch and conversation with the Board of Visitors in November.
professionals in their disciplines.
New initiatives include developing recurring internship sites locally, nationally
and internationally for all majors.
The PODS office is working collaboratively with the Office of External Relations
and Communications
Left: Dean Frances
to actively invite proBronet (center)
and Vice Provost
fessionals to join the
Terri Warpinski
Professional Con(Fritz’s wife, left)
nections web-based
listen as Univerdatabase where stusity President
Dave Frohnmayer
dents can seek menspeaks at the
tors and professional
newly renovated
guidance. (Sign up at
Garry B Fritz
Room’s ribbon
cutting and
dedication.
http://aaa.uoregon.edu
and click professional
connections for details.)
Libra ry VRC Goes Di gital
Over the past year, substantial progress
has been made in transforming the Visual
Resources Collection (VRC) into a unit
that can provide digital image resources
and services. Last spring, Art History
department head Sherwin Simmons and
Ed Teague, head of the A&AA Library,
obtained an Educational Technology grant
that enabled the purchase of equipment
and special staffing to bring about this
change. Today, the VRC’s imaging lab is
one of the best in North America. There
are now 14,000 art and architecture digital
images accessible through the UO Libraries website in addition to other images
available from databases, such as ARTstor.
In September 2006, Julia Simic began
employment as Visual Resources Librarian.
Simic will build on the legacy left by former
VRC curator, Christine Sundt, retired in
2005. Among VRC holdings are large gift
collections which will be the focus of digital efforts as time and funding permit. The
Pacific Northwest chapter of the Society of
Architectural Historians provided funding
in 2007 to support the digitization of the
Marion Dean Ross slide collection, with
the larger vision being a digital archive of
Pacific Northwest architecture.
Below: A digital restoration of a slide taken in
1956 of “Sculpture”, a 1939 mural destroyed
when Ellis Lawrence’s original art & architecture building was demolished in 1956.
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Architecture
Finnish professors Visit UO
Above: Julle Oksanen and Hannu Tikka
Sponsored by The Frederick Charles Baker
Fund for the Study of Light and Lighting in
Architecture, two professors from Finland,
Julle Oksanen and Hannu Tikka, visited
the UO during winter term. The pair, who
founded the “Light & Space Academy, The
Finnish Travelling University” (LSA) in 2003,
taught two architecture courses on lighting
and gave public lectures in March.
“In studio Oksanen and Tikka work off
of each other’s strengths, making each
better at what they do, and in turn helping
us to create better, more complete buildings,” said graduate architecture student
Matthew De Mott.
The LSA draws from the experiences
of a professional lighting designer and
a prominent architect and aims to teach
students an integrated approach to architecture that focuses on the artistic and
technical potentialities of daylight and
electric light in the built environment.
Julle Oksanen in the principal of Julle
Oksanen Lighting Design Ltd, a design firm
located in Helsinki, Finland. He has over
twenty-five years of experience, and has
recently taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, NY; The Bartlett at the
University College London; and Cornell
University. He has also designed luminaries
for international companies such as Philips,
Louis Poulsen, Fagerhult and iGuzzini.
Hannu Tikka is a partner at Arkkitehtityöhuone Artto Palo Rossi Tikka Architects,
an international studio for architecture, city
planning and design founded in 1994.
Tikka is a full professor at Tampere University of Technology and a professor at
Helsinki University of Technology.
Portland celebrates 10 years
In 2007 the graduate architecture degree
program at the UO Portland Center marks
its 10th anniversary. This major milestone
was celebrated by students, faculty and
alumni on January 12th. Architect Jeff Kovel
of Skylab spoke at the event, which was
hosted by A&AA Dean Frances Bronet and
Department of Architecture head Christine
Theodoropoulos and organized by the Portland Architecture Alumni Group (PAAG) led
by Erika Price (M. Arch. ‘04).
Price described the event, “Portland
students and alumni enjoyed the rare
chance to mingle personally with the
leadership from Eugene in Portland. As
President of PAAG, to participate in planning the event and witness its success
was extremely gratifying and leads me
to eagerly anticipate the evolution of the
program from a small satellite program to
the University of Oregon Portland.”
Enrollment for students in the masters
of architecture program at the Portland
Center averages 75 to 85 students per
year, and will expand when the UO moves
into larger quarters at the White Stag
building in 2008.
Art
Above: Justin Fry, Untitled, acrylic on canvas
Students Exhi bit at DIVA
Intending to strengthen bonds between
students in the Department of Art and the
surrounding community, Assistant Professor Kartz Ucci organized “UO at the
DIVA”, a juried student exhibition hosted
by the Downtown Initiative for the Visual
Arts. The work of nineteen students from
the University of Oregon was featured in
the exhibition, which ran from January 5
through February 24, 2007. Featured artists represented a range of contemporary
art perspectives, stemming from the disciplines of ceramics, digital arts, jewelry &
metalsmithing, painting, photography, and
sculpture.
Rogena Degge DuPriest, Professor
Emerita and DIVA board member, invited Ucci to organize the exhibition. The
exhibition was co-curated by Ucci and
Visiting Assistant Professor Anya Kivarkis.
Approximately 300 community members
viewed the exhibit as part of the First Friday ARTWalk, a monthly downtown event
sponsored by the Lane Arts Council.
Students were thrilled by the opportunity to exhibit at a downtown gallery and
excited about interacting with the Eugene
art community. Graduate painting student
Justin Fry said, “I highly respect Kartz and
Anya as artists and I was very confident that
they would put together a great show. The
opening night for the show was fun. I like
geeking out with other artist types.”
Ar tis t Steve Kurtz Speaks
Steve Kurtz, an artist and professor at
the State University
of New York at Buffalo, talked about the
convergence of art,
technology and radical politics during
the Fowler Memorial
Lecture at the UO on January 25. Kurtz
made national headlines several years ago
when he was accused of bioterrorism after
police found lab equipment and books on
bioweaponry at his home.
On May 11, 2004, Kurtz called 911
after his wife, Hope, died at home of heart
failure. Police officers who responded
to the call saw laboratory equipment for
growing harmless bacteria that Kurtz used
in his art installations. Federal agents soon
arrived at the residence, impounded Kurtz’s
equipment and seized his wife’s body. Kurtz
and his collaborator Robert Ferrell were
accused of bioterrorism and mail fraud.
Both men are members of the Critical
Art Ensemble, an arts group founded by
Kurtz and his wife. “Marching Plague,” an
exhibition for the Massachusetts Museum
of Contemporary Art, was one of the projects Kurtz was working on when the federal
agents seized his laboratory equipment and
his library, correspondence and computers. “Marching Plague,” which re-created
a 1952 British military experiment where
guinea pigs were infected with the plague
to see how fast it would spread, was featured in the Whitney Biennial 2006.
Kurtz was the 2007 George and Matilda
Fowler Memorial Lecturer. The lectureship
was established by the late Constance
Fowler to honor her parents.
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Graduate, Interior Architecture
“Signature Library”
IArch 584, Fall 2006
Faculty: Esther Hagenlocher
6 Kassidy Harris
Undergraduate, Architecture
“Strapped,” (Maple, walnut and steel)
IArch 586, Fall 2006
Faculty: Deborah Scott
2 Katherine Boyd
Undergraduate,
Landscape Architecture
“Gansevoort Pier Aerial Oblique”
LArch 489, Fall 2006
Faculty: Liska Chan
7 Lindsey Hanson
Undergraduate, Art
“Welcome to the Villages of Tuscany”
Siena Program, Summer 2006
Faculty: Amanda Wojick
3 Jordan Kiel
Undergraduate, Architecture
Terminal Project: PEARL
(Performance East-West Research
and Learning Center) Cairo, Egypt
Arch 486, Fall/Winter 2007
Faculty: Ihab Elzeyadi
4 Kate Beckley
Undergraduate, Architecture
Terminal Project: PEARL
(Performance East-West Research
and Learning Center) Cairo, Egypt
Arch 486, Fall/Winter 2007
Faculty: Ihab Elzeyadi
5 Natalie Davis
Graduate, Architecture
Chinese Cultural Center, Portland
Arch 584, Fall 2006
Faculty: David Gabriel
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Graduate, Digital Arts
“The Wait”
Independent Study
Faculty: Michael Salter
with assistance from Jen Woodin
9 Camille Behnke
Graduate, Architecture
Eric Wrolstad
Graduate, Landscape Architecture
Amity Vineyards: Aerial Perspective
Arch 584, Fall 2006
Faculty: Mark Gillem
10 Lewis Forquer
Undergraduate BFA, Photography
“Untitled”
Arto 484, Fall 2006
Faculty: Dan Powell
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Arts & Administration
AAD COURSE STUDIES EUGENE
Members from the Eugene Cultural Policy
Review Committee, including Eugene City
Mayor Kitty Piercy, listen as students present
their group research projects.
The Arts and Administration program is
actively involved in the on-going City of
Eugene Cultural Services Policy Review
process, which began in 2006. The study
is aimed at evaluating Eugene’s current
cultural policy and suggesting ways to
improve the arts and culture sector in
the city. The review provides an excellent
live case study for current and future arts
leaders to learn approaches to cultural
planning, arts advocacy, and community
civic engagement. Tina Rinaldi, the AAD
Program Manager, chairs the Mayor’s Cultural Policy Review Committee, and faculty
and students participated in community
arts and culture dialogues.
All of the thirty students in Assistant
Professor Patricia Dewey’s winter Cultural
Policy in Art course studied the Eugene
Cultural Services Policy Review as a class
applied research project. Six student
groups each researched and reported on
a specific aspect of the review process.
Cultural sector leaders from the community
and the state, including former chairman of
the National Endowment for the Arts, John
Frohnmayer, and Oregon Arts Commission
Executive Director, Chris D’Arcy, presented lectures to the class. Leaders and
participants in Eugene’s cultural planning
process were discussants and attendees
at the class’s final public presentation on
March 12, 2007, funded by the Center for
Community Arts and Cultural Policy. The
class project is an example of how the AAD
program integrates teaching, research, and
community engagement.
Arle ne Gol dbard Vi sits
Arlene Goldbard, a writer and cultural policy consultant from the San Francisco area,
visited the UO February 21 through the 23
as part of the Arts & Administration and the
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Center for Community Arts and Cultural
Policy Visiting Scholar Series. She gave
multiple lectures and workshops about
consulting, organizational development,
and community cultural development.
Goldbard has advised hundreds of
organizations, funders, and policymakers,
and she speaks widely on the issues of
culture, politics, and spirituality. Her most
recent book is New Creative Community:
The Art of Cultural Development.
Historic Preservation
Students reconstRuct cabin
Students are overseen by Adjunct Instructor
John Platz as they prepare timbers for the reconstruction of a cabin at the Fort Vancouver
National Historic Reserve.
Kanaka Village, a multi-ethnic community located at Fort Vancouver National
Historic Reserve in Washington, is the
focus of a hands-on workshop directed
by Adjunct Instructor John Platz and Associate Professor Emeritus of Architecture
Donald Peting. The project is the first step
in an effort by the National Park Service
to reconstruct and interpret the workers’
settlement located beyond the walls of Fort
Vancouver—the Hudson Bay Company’s
headquarters from 1825-1860. Extensive
archaeological and historical research was
undertaken by the National Park Service
to document the multi-cultural settlement
(Kanaka Village) where an estimated 600
Hawaiian, American Indian, French Canadian, Scot, and American trappers and
agricultural workers lived.
The focus of the Kanaka Workshop is
the reconstruction of a small French-Canadian cabin. The building is being erected
in the centuries old French-Canadian log
mortise and tenon post-on-sill construction
method or piece sur piece.
UO students enrolled in the Kanaka
Workshop worked during the first week of
January with preservation specialist John
Platz at his shop near Portland. Students
from the Historic Preservation program,
including Heather Scotten, Shawn Lingo,
Laura Nowlin, Susan Johnson, and Kathryn
Burk, crafted portions of the building during
the first week of January.
Graduate student Susan Johnson said,
“It was a great experience and lots of hard
work–a nice change from being in lecture
classes all the time.”
Another one week workshop is being offered during spring break, in which students
will be erecting the cabin at the location
where it stood nearly 150 years ago.
Art History
Research Colloquium RETURNS
The Department of Art History resurrected its Faculty Research Colloquium
in spring 2006, with Department Head
Sherwin Simmons, Assistant Professor
James Harper, and Associate Professor
Andrew Schulz presenting recent research.
Presentations continued during winter
2007 with Assistant Professor Deborah
Hurtt’s talk “One-Street, Many Moderns,”
and will continue during spring term. Professor Kate Nicholson will speak about
“Portraiture, Fashion, and Celebrity in Late
Seventeenth-Century France” on April 27,
and Ross Professor Leland Roth will present “Oregon’s Forgotten Modernist: John
Yeon” on June 1 at the Portland Center,
followed by a visit to the Watzek House.
Interior Architecture
Snyder Appointed Director
Associate Professor Alison Snyder
has been appointed Director of the
Interior Architecture Program within
the Department of
Architecture as of
January 2007. She
takes the place of
Associate Professor Linda Zimmer who
graciously served as director for eight
years. Professor Zimmer will continue
to teach in the program and pursue her
interests in flexible interiors, furniture, and
design consulting.
Professor Snyder came to the UO in
1997 with professional credentials and
academic experience from Philadelphia
University and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Since coming to UO, she has been a
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visiting professor at the Orta Dogu Teknik
Universitesi in Ankara, Turkey. Professor
Snyder’s diverse professional background
includes new construction and the adaptive
re-use of residential, office, commercial
and religious designs and includes lighting
and custom furniture design.
As an architect, interior designer and
scholar, Snyder is interested in how art,
architecture, and interior design relate to
each other and in how places, buildings,
and interiors transform over time. Her
research incorporates archaeological and
anthropological approaches to consider
how design and socio-cultural factors interact. Snyder’s fieldwork projects include
both rural and urban settings found in
Turkey. They focus on subjects such as
the role light plays in ancient and modern
religious buildings; how modernization is
changing contemporary village vernacular;
and, comparing local and global customs
found in historic and new street spaces.
Professor Snyder sees the study of interior architecture as essential for educating
designers. The discipline teaches students
about design process and theory, human
needs and use, history, place-making and
ways to experience and enhance the environment. She is an advocate for inspiring
new methods through which to investigate
design and in furthering inter- and multidisciplinary interactions.
Collaborative Patterns, an installation
displayed in Lawrence Hall created by students in Visiting Assistant Professor Mark
Cabrinha’s Interior Architecture Studio.
Landscape
Architecture
Students plan city expansion
Much of greater Portland’s growth over
the next fifteen years is expected to be
directed into the new city of Damascus.
During fall term, twenty-four University of
Oregon students had the chance to be a
part of the planning process of this new
Planning, Public
Policy & Management
Students visit the future site of Damascus, a
new city outside Portland, Oregon, and present their plans to City Councilor Jim Wright.
city by participating in a planning studio
course. Professor Robert Ribe and Adjunct
Instructor Dean Apostol taught the class
that was centered around exploring how
best to carry a major transportation route
(Hwy 212) through Damascus and begin
the planning process with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).
Students were divided into teams, which
each took on separate planning and design
projects centered on transportation issues
within the new city. The students learned
about contemporary street and highway
planning and design concepts, including
green-street design guidelines and the
history of past and current federal highway
legislation as it effects project goals and
opportunities. They were shown examples
of these concepts from around Portland,
Oregon, and elsewhere, and also visited
Damascus to inform their design process.
The students created design plans for each
study corridor and presented their work at
the end of the term to elected officials, citizen committee members, and staff from the
city of Damascus. The goal of the course
was to educate planners and officials about
multiple planning options and to initiate a
constructive planning process.
The students’ final graphic presentations, including posters, drawings and
Powerpoint presentations, were presented
or provided to ODOT, Metro, and the city
of Damascus at the completion of the
planning studio course.
students learn philanthropy
Thanks to two courses during fall and
winter term, one for freshmen and one for
graduate students, University of Oregon
students get to step into the role of grant
makers and award large grants to deserving nonprofits. Now in their fifth year at
UO and being adopted as a model for
philanthropy curriculum at other universities nationwide, the courses are designed
to teach the historical and economic role of
philanthropy, as well as the technical skills
required for effective grant making.
The freshman seminar grant of $10,000
is funded jointly by Wells Fargo and Weyerhaeuser Corporation, while the Faye
& Lucille Stewart Foundation funds the
graduate gift of $10,000. The funders
allow the students complete autonomy in
their decision making, which includes site
visits and thorough financial analysis of the
finalist organizations.
Associate Professor Renee Irvin founded the courses as a way to connect University students with the vibrant nonprofit
community. The philanthropy project allowed students to get to know the local
nonprofit sector without burdening them in
any way. “I wanted to make sure students
worked hard on the investigative legwork in
this course and not require the nonprofits
to fill out an elaborate, time-consuming
grant application,” Irvin noted.
Undergraduate student Alex Ann Westlake described her experience, “After reading the applications and case statements
I was blown away by the decisions ahead
of us because all the organizations were
good and deserved our support. For me
the class was an inspirational introduction
to Lane County’s vast network of nonprofit
organizations.”
The graduate seminar is also valuable
for students in nonprofit careers. Irvin
noted, “It is incredibly useful for nonprofit
administrators to experience seeing organizations from an external view.”
Paul Elstone, UO’s director of corporate and foundation relations, teaches the
freshman seminar and Bob Bronson, a
board director and treasurer of the Faye
& Lucille Stewart foundation now teaches
the graduate seminar.
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New
Faculty
2006–2007
Serving in the art museum field for almost thirty
years, David Turner is joining the School of
Architecture and Allied Arts as an adjunct
assistant professor. In this capacity he will
be teaching courses in art history and arts
administration based upon his expertise in the
history of photography, art of the American
west, arts administration, exhibition design, and
museology. Prior to joining A&AA, Turner was
Director of the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum
from 2004-06.
Graduating from the UO in 1974 with a
masters in art history, Turner has directed three
art museums. He was first Curator of Education
and then Director of the Amarillo (Texas) Art
Center, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Director of the
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
Turner’s interests are in contemporary American art and the history of photography, subjects
he has lectured and published on regularly. He
has led workshops on museum governance,
fundraising, and development, and participated
in museum accreditation programs.
The Department of
Planning, Public Policy
and Management welcomes Assistant Professor Yizhao Yang.
Yang has a background
in architecture, building science, and urban
planning. Her research
interests focus on the social and environmental
aspects of physical planning, particularly issues related to urban forms supportive of more
healthy, affordable, and sustainable environments. She is also interested in incorporating
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in developing methods for analyzing the built environment and integrating spatial analysis in studies
of urban growth and residential development. As
a Special Sworn Status researcher of the U.S.
Census Bureau, she has recently completed a
study investigating people’s residential experience in compact and mixed environments using
confidential data.
Yang plans to build upon her existing work
in the future with research aimed at understanding the relationship between people and their
environments, using knowledge gained to inform
physical design and planning that can meet the
needs of diverse populations and achieve balance between natural systems and human habitats. She received a masters of regional planning
in 2001 and a Ph.D. in city and regional planning
in 2007, both from Cornell University.
In Memoriam Architecture Professor Emeritus Philip H. Dole died of cancer on
Outstanding Faculty
Honored by University
Provost
Four outstanding faculty members from
the School of Architecture and Allied
Arts received campus–wide recognition when they received four of twenty
awards from Provost Linda Brady from
the newly established UO Fund for
Faculty Excellence. A&AA faculty excellence awards were presented to:
Professor of Arts and Administration
Douglas Blandy
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Kenneth Helphand
Professor of Art History
Jeffrey Hurwit
Associate Professor of Architecture
Alison Kwok
C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S
The following faculty received 2007
Summer Research Awards of $4500
from the University: Associate Professor of Art Barbara Pickett, Assistant
Professor of Architecture Nico Larco,
Assistant Professor of Art History
Deborah Hurtt, Assistant Professor of
Arts and Administration Lori Hager,
Associate Professor of Planning, Public
Policy and Management Neil Bania,
Associate Professor of Art History
Andrew Schulz.
November 13, 2006 in Eugene, Oregon. Dole served on the UO faculty from 1956 to 1986.
He taught architectural design studios as well as historic preservation courses. In 1979 he
co-founded the graduate program in Historic Preservation, with the late art history professor Marian Donnelly, administered the committee from 1979-1983, and appointed the
program’s first director in 1983. Dole served in this role until his retirement in 1986.
Gary Moye, a former student, and later, a colleague and collaborator of Dole’s for over
40 years, shares that “I remember being amazed by the world of design that was revealed
to me by this man who was reared in Connecticut and educated at Penn, Harvard, and
Columbia. Generations of students like me have thought of Philip as their most significant
teacher—not because of the work we ourselves produced, but because of the breadth and
depths of his architectural interests that he shared with us and because of his keen design
insights that were revealed to us by his astute questions and comments.”
Philip Dole had a special interest in the architecture of rural landscapes—the construction, uses, evolution and cultural origins. Over the course of his career, he documented
and recorded hundreds of sites and buildings built in the Pacific Northwest between c.
1840 and c. 1930. Through years of field research came a steady outpour of articles, essays, Raising the 1861 William Carns barn in
lectures and reports that redefined the study of rural architecture in the Pacific Northwest. spring 1985 was one of Professor Philip
In 1974, he contributed four studies on rural landscapes and barns to the Space, Style and Dole’s class projects for the new historic
Structure, Building in Northwest America. He is perhaps most acclaimed for analyzing the preservation program. The recording and
architecture and building techniques of the Aurora Colony in the nineteenth century, and planning for the move of this barn began a
five-year project initiated in 1980 by Dole
for his book, The Pickett Fence in Oregon, an American Vernacular Comes West.
In 1970 he was chief organizer and chair of the first statewide workshop on Historic and adjunct Gregg Olson. Students recorded,
Preservation. He was editor of the Journal of Architectural Education in 1969 and by the labeled, dismantled, and then moved the
end of his tenure, Dole had established it as an independent quarterly of the Association parts of the barn to the Jacob Spores place
of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He also played an important role in establishing near Coburg in Lane County. (Photo by
Bonnie Parks)
the statewide historic preservation program, authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. In 1976, he was appointed to the State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation where he served the panel
as historical architect for two consecutive terms. Dole made preparing National Register nominations a required part of course work
toward the UO graduate degree.
Donations in his memory can be made to the UO Foundation/A&AA Library Fund, 360 E. 10th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97401-3273.
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A&AA
Dean Frances Bronet was interviewed in the
winter edition of Blueprints about her collaboration with the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company.
Chris Jones, director of A&AA Computing Services, was one of six people inducted into the
Association for Computing Machinery’s Special
Interest Group for University and College Computing Services Hall of Fame in 2006.
Former Dean and Professor of Landscape
Architecture Robert Melnick was appointed
interim executive director of the UO Jordan
Schnitzer Museum of Art in January.
Architecture
Courtesy Professor Ed Allen, the 2005 Topaz
Medallion Recipient for Excellence in Architectural Education, delivered a lecture, “Architectural Fantasies and Fallacies,” and a student
workshop in January at the UO.
Assistant Professor Ihab Elzeyadi has reissued an online publication, “Recycling Buildings: Sustainable Solutions for Portland Historic
Building Fabric,” written with Associate Professor Emeritus Don Peting and J. Galbraith. (See
http://pdxreuse.uoregon.edu.)
Associate Professor Gerry Gast is leading a
team designing the new campus of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, The Ukraine.
Professor Gast and student Jonathan Lemons
visited Lviv in October to hold workshops.
Assistant Professor Mark L. Gillem received
a design award from the American Planning
Association’s Federal Planning Division. His
plans for two areas of Aviano Air Base, a NATO
installation in northern Italy, incorporate morphological patterns supportive of more compact
development that allows NATO to return a 13acre parcel in the heart of the town of Aviano to
the Italian government. He was also interviewed
on KWVA’s (FM 88.1) Inform Radio Program on
December 4 about alternatives to expanding
Eugene’s Urban Growth Boundary.
Assistant Professor Brook Muller’s essay
“Metaphor, Environmental Receptivity and
Architectural Design” will appear in a forthcoming anthology on Symbolic Landscapes.
With Professor Michael Fifield, Muller was
the recipient of the 2006 John Yeon Faculty
Grant for Eugene Alleyscapes Morphological
Assessment: Envisioning the Role of Alley Infill
Development in the City’s Compact Growth
Strategy. Muller is a principal consultant for the
multidisciplinary competition Nature in Neighborhoods: Design for Clean Water and Habitat,
sponsored by Portland Metro Services.
Associate Professor Kevin Nute spent 200506 at the University of Tokyo as a Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow,
researching his next book, The Architecture of
Here and Now. He presented this work, as well
as a paper on “The Thesaurus as a Design Tool,”
at Architectural Institute of Japan conferences
Printmaker and Educator Margaret Prentice Retires
Associate Professor Margaret Prentice retires this spring
after serving on the art faculty since 1986. Prentice has been
responsible for the courses in etching and relief printmaking
and has coordinated the program for over 12 years. In
addition to printmaking, this dynamic instructor has taught
papermaking, artists books, drawing, and watercolor. “I knew
Peggy by reputation long before I came to the UO,” notes Kate
Wagle, art department head, “both because of Twinrocker Paper
and her role at the forefront of contemporary printmaking in
the United States. She has made a tremendous contribution to
this program and the university,” continues Wagle. Prentice’s work has been shown
in over 220 exhibitions and may be found in over 45 public collections. A co-founder
of Twinrocker Handmade Paper with her twin sister, Prentice has made paper and
image, materials and texture, integral to her artistic process. In 1994, with a fellowship
from the Japan Foundation, Prentice studied traditional papermaking in Japan. She
was the Artist-in-Residence at the Kyoto-Seika University of Fine Arts and at Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts where she researched traditional Japanese wood
block printmaking. In 2001 with a UO Faculty Research Grant, she documented and
videotaped the primitive amate papermaking of the Otomi Indians in San Pablito,
Mexico, and created a DVD. She has given visiting artist lectures and workshops at over
80 art institutions and was an Artist-in-Residence for three months during a sabbatical
at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Her work is in the collections of the British
Museum, the Getty Museum, the New York Public Library, the Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art in Kansas City, and the Portland Art Museum. Prentice received her M.F.A. from
the University of Colorado and her B.F.A. from the University of Arizona.
in Tokyo and Osaka, and was also an invited
lecturer at the Watarium Museum of Art, Tokyo;
Seoul National University of Technology, and the
University of Western Australia.
Professor James Pettinari and his thesis
students worked with the City of Portland and
several visiting professionals to come up with
alternative approaches of utilizing damaged riverfront sites. As part of the study, the UO Portland
Center hosted a design charette called “The Upper Reach Willamette River Design Charette.”
Professor Emeritus Guntis Plesums had an
article titled “Survival City,” a manifesto on
what we have learned from hurricane Katrina,
published in the September 2006 issue of the
Journal of Architectural Education.
Adjunct Associate Professor Otto Poticha
completed a major renovation of the Richard
E. Wildish Community Theater in Springfield,
Oregon, which opened in November 2006.
Professor Emeritus John Reynolds is serving
on three boards of directors. He is Chair of the
American Solar Energy Society in Boulder, Colorado, Vice-President of the Energy Trust of Oregon in Portland, and member of the International
Solar Energy Society in Freiburg, Germany.
Art
Adjunct Assistant Professor Colleen Choquette-Raphael had eight assemblages
featured in Past/Present at the Visual Studies
Workshop, Rochester, New York. She also
exhibited her work in September at the Paul
Alexander Gallery, Framingham, Massachusetts.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Anya Kivarkis’s
brooch is featured on the cover of the winter
2007 issue of Metalsmith magazine. Kivarkis’s
jewelry was also included in the traveling exhibition, Coming Into View, which was on view at
the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art December 6, 2006, through February 18, 2007.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Miriam Kley had a
solo show of bas-reliefs, painted and some with
metallic gilding, at Lane Community College in
Eugene, October through November 2006.
Associate Professor Sana Krusoe was featured in Soaring Spirits/Feet of Clay at the
Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon
University, April 28 through June 17, 2006.
Associate Professor Justin Novak has had
work featured in venues in Copenhagen, New
York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Eugene, and Portland. He delivered a paper titled
“Cultural Labor” at the annual conference of the
National Council on Education in the Ceramics
Arts in Portland, Oregon, and at a symposium
hosted by the Kunstindustrimuseet (Museum
of Decorative Arts & Design) in Copenhagen,
Denmark, and at the Emily Carr Institute of
Art & Design, Vancouver, BC. In addition, he
delivered lectures on his work at the University
of Georgia and at the University of Regina, in
Saskatchewan, Canada.
Associate Professor Dan Powell had work
published in The Polaroid Book, Pictures from
the Permanent Collection in 2006. Shipwreck,
an exhibition of Powell’s photography was at the
UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art November,
2006, through January, 2007.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor Robert G. RolfeRedding’s film Contemporary Mandala was
featured in the 11th Annual Not Still Art Festival
held in New York in October. He was recently
invited to submit his abstract experimental video
work to the Los Angeles iota’s study library,
and to submit selected pieces based on his
visual music works to the Hollywood production
company Primrose Pictures.
Associate Professor Michael Salter’s work
has appeared recently in the book DotDotDash
(Dgv, 2006) and HiFructose magazine.
Associate Professor Ying Tan’s short film
“Elements in Transformation” was screened at
the Milwaukee Art Museum in March. Tan and
Jeffrey Stolet’s collaborative animation “Wicket
Pathes, Cruel Deserts” was selected for a concert Moving Target: A Concert of New Works
for Image and Music at Tulane University.
Assistant Professor Kartz Ucci was invited to
participate in the inaugural exhibition prior to
the launch of the new web portal for video art
established by the Saachi Gallery in London.
She also participated in an exhibition, In Transition, at the Lanitis Centre in Cypress, and
International Code at the Shandong Art and
Design Academy in China. Also, her neon piece,
“FURTHER THAN EVERYTHING,” has been
permanently installed in Lawrence Hall.
Associate Professor Laura Vandenburgh’s
work was included in the exhibition Junctions:
Selected Drawings from Contemporary Artists
and Modern Masters at The James Harris Gallery in Seattle, who also represented her at the
Jupiter Art Fair in Portland. Vandenburgh and
art department Assistant Professor Amanda
Wojick and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Marcy Adzich were in a four-person show at
the Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto entitled
No(W)here which was curated by Assistant
Professor Kevin Yates and reviewed in the
winter 2006 edition of Canadian Art.
Professor Kate Wagle published an article,
“Maywa Denki: Seriously Absurd”, in the winter
2007 issue of Metalsmith magazine, and led the
Editorial Advisory Committee of Metalsmith to
Munich, Germany, for Schmuck, the international jewelry expo in March, 2007. She was
recently appointed to the Professional Practices
Committee of the College Art Association.
Art History
Professor Jeffrey M. Hurwit had “Lizards, Lions, and the Uncanny in Early Greek Art” appear
in Hesperia and “The Problem with Dexileos:
Heroic and Other Nudities in Greek Art” in the
American Journal of Archaeology. Last summer
he received a faculty research award and last
spring he received the Wayne T. Westling Award
for University Leadership and Service.
Marion D. Ross Distinguished Professor of Architectural History Leland Roth was the recipi16
ent of the John Yeon Research Grant to begin
a new book Building Eden: A History of Architecture in Oregon. His revised and redesigned
second edition of Understanding Architecture:
Its Elements, History, and Meaning (Westview
Press, Boulder, Colorado) was published in
August, 2006. It first appeared in 1993.
Department Head Sherwin Simmons’ article
“Kirchner’s Brücke Poster” appeared in Print
Quarterly. He lectured at the Portland Art Museum on “Prints and Popular Culture in German
Expressionism.”
Arts & Administration
Associate Professor Emerita Gaylene Carpenter presented the “Stability in Leisure Perceptions: Case Study Findings” at the 59th Annual
Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society
of America in Dallas in November. She also presented “Arts and Cultural Programming: A Call
to Do More” at the National Recreation and Park
Association’s Congress in Seattle in October.
Assistant Professor Patricia Dewey served
as guest editor for the fall 2006 issue of The
Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society,
which had the theme “Cultural Development.”
Assistant Professor Lori Hager was awarded
an Educational Technology grant for the threeyear ePortfolio project (eportfolio.uoregon.edu).
Hager presented “Youth and Community Development: Programs, Policies, and Perspectives”
at the Florida Learn and Serve Conference in
Miami this past March.
Adjunct faculty member and program administrator Tina Rinaldi has been appointed
to the Eugene Planning and Development
Department’s West Broadway downtown redevelopment advisory committee.
Historic Preservation
Director and Associate Professor Kingston
Heath attended the 2006 ICOMOS Annual
Meeting held November 17-18 in Udonthani,
Thailand, where he presented a paper and
chaired a session on “Sustainable Development
and Heritage Conservation.” Heath is also completing a book, entitled Exploring the Nature of
Place: Strategies Toward a “Situated Regionalism,” for Architectural Press (Oxford, England).
Interior Architecture
Associate Professor Mary Anne Beecher
presented “Reading the Room: Tools for the
Humanities for the Beginning Design Student”
at the 22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design Student in Ames, Iowa in April.
She received the 2006 Human Ecology Dean’s
Fellowship from Cornell University in the History
of Home Economics and Nutrition, and spent six
weeks using Cornell’s archives to research To
Make Space Most Useful: The Impact of Home
Economics Education and Outreach on Domestic Storage Improvements (1900-1950).
Assistant Professor Esther Hagenlocher has a
London apartment conversion project in 150 Best
Apartment Ideas (Collins Design & LOFT Publications, 2007), edited by Ana G. Cañizares.
Associate Professor Alison Snyder presented
papers comparing internal characteristics of
Istanbul’s streets and alleyways at the Middle
East Studies Association, Boston and at the International Association for the Study of Traditional
Environments conference, Bangkok, fall 2006.
Landscape Architecture
Professor Kenneth Helphand’s book Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
was recognized by the Environmental Design
Research Association (EDRA) for Excellence
in Research in the 2007 EDRA/Places Design
and Research Awards. In addition it won the
American Society of Landscape Architects
Award of Excellence in Research. The American
Horticultural Society (AHS) awarded the book
one of three 2007 AHS book awards and it
received a Silver Award of Achievement from
the Garden Writers Association. It was also
named one of the books of the year by The New
Statesman and one of the ten best books of the
year by Northwest authors by the Oregonian.
Helphand has given over twenty talks on Defiant
Gardens nationally, and has been the subject
of numerous interviews and articles.
Professor Robert Ribe lectured in February at
Purdue University about what influences public
opinions about different kinds of forest management plans and harvest practices.
Planning, Public Policy &
Management
Associate Professor Neil Bania, along with
Professors of Economics Jo Anna Gray and Joe
A. Stone, collaborated on an article, “Growth,
Taxes, and Government Expenditures: Growth
Hills for U.S. States,” which will appear in a
forthcoming issue of the National Tax Journal.
Professor Michael Hibbard and Marcus B.
Lane’s article “Doing it for Themselves: Transformative Planning by Indigenous Peoples,”
appeared in the December 2005 Journal of
Planning Education and Research.
Associate Professor Renee Irvin’s chapter
“Collaborative Approaches to Nonprofit Production: Consorting for the Public Good” appeared
in Financing Nonprofits: Bridging Theory and
Practice. “Regional Wealth and Philanthropic
Capacity Mapping” appeared in the March 2007
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and
Irvin’s 2004 article written with John Stansbury,
“Citizen Participation in Decision Making: Is It
Worth the Effort?” has been selected for reprinting in the inaugural issue of the International
Journal of Public Participation, 2007.
Assistant Professor Yizhao Yang contributed
to an article, “Environment, Design, and Obesity:
Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Collaborative
Research,” which will appear in the 2007 publication of Environment and Behavior.
alumni notes
Architecture
After forty years of practice in Oregon, Frank
Schumaker, Jr. (B.Arch ’51) has been given
the title of Architect Emeritus.
In April 2006, Johnpaul Jones (B.Arch. ‘67)
received the AIA Seattle Medal, the highest
award that AIA Seattle can grant to one of its
members. The Medal recognizes distinguished
lifetime achievement in architecture. Jones is
one of the founders of Jones & Jones Architects
and Landscape Architects, Ltd.
Michael Wilkes (B.Arch. ‘71) was named one
of the “120 Top Influentials” in San Diego, CA,
from San Diego’s Business Daily. He is the photographer for Whispers from the Land, a book
of poetry written by his wife, Penny.
Jerry Quinn Lee (B.Arch. ’73) was awarded
the 2006 Community Service Award by AIA
Seattle. He was recognized for his dedication
to community projects including fundraising for
the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
and supporting the development of a Japanese
Cultural and Community Center in Seattle.
Martin Jones (B.Arch. ’75) was promoted
to Associate Principal in the Seattle office of
Callison.
Bill Leddy (B.Arch. ’75) and Marsha Maytum’s (B.Arch. ’77) San Francisco-based firm,
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, effectively reduced fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions
by 75% below the national average on several
projects; the San Francisco Day School, the
Natural Resources Defense Council and the
Nueva School Hillside Learning Complex.
Mic Johnson (B.Arch. ‘76) gave a lecture,
“Urban Field Notes,” for the College of Design
at the University of Minnesota on September
27. He is an adjunct assistant professor of
architecture at the U of M.
Brad Cloepfil (B.Arch. ’80) was featured in the
winter 2006 Oregon Quarterly. He was profiled
for his design of the Wieden+Kennedy headquarters in Portland as well as his subsequent
projects and his new office in NY, NY.
Bardy Azadmard (B.Arch. ‘85) was featured
in the Los Angeles Times on October 12, 2006.
He owns a trailer that is one of only ten designed
by renowned industrial and racecar designer
Charles W. Pelly. The trailer has been used as
a prop in several movies.
In February 2007, Kenneth Fisher (M.Arch.
’87) was promoted to Principal at the Boston,
MA, office of Gensler.
Wayne Goo (B.Arch. ’90) recently joined
Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo Architecture. He
lives in Honolulu, HI.
Doug Hilberman (B.Arch. ’90, M.B.A. ’97)
was recently promoted to President of Axia
Architects in Santa Rosa, CA.
Jordan Rose (M.Arch. ’93) was promoted
to Senior Associate at Pyatok Architects in
Oakland, CA. He was the project architect for
the Oak Court Apartments in Palo Alto, CA.
In 2005, the project won two Golden Nugget
Awards; Best Affordable Housing and Attached
Residential Project of the year.
Joseph Sis (M.Arch. ’04) assumed command
of the Oregon Army National Guard 162nd
engineers unit in Dallas. He also works with
Berry Architects in Eugene.
Tim Fouch (M.Arch. ’06) is an associate at Surround Architecture in Portland, OR. He is in the
application process for NCARB registration.
Art
Joe M. Fischer (B.S. ’60, M.F.A. ’63) donated
a multi-image wildlife painting to the annual auction for Ducks Unlimited in Longview, WA.
The Environmental Design Archives of the
University of California at Berkeley featured a
collection of papers, photographs, drawings
and plans by Ron Wigginton (M.F.A. ’68) in
their June newsletter.
Recent site-specific installations by Mike
Walsh (B.F.A. ’72) include, Link at the Corvallis
Arts Center in July and Australian Series: Fragile
Circles at Jacobs Gallery at the Hult Center in
Eugene, OR, in August.
Marcia Lynch’s (B.S. ’72, M.F.A. ’79) article,
“Book Art Sites in France and Holland,” was
published in the September 2004 issue of The
Bull and Branch Newsletter of the Friends of
Dard Hunter, Inc., an international association
for hand papermaking and book art.
Nancy Arthur Hoskins (M.S. ’78) was invited
to teach a weaving course in England. She will
also present a lecture on “Coptic Tapestry” as
the Hancock Lecturer for the Victorian Tapestry
Workshop and the National Gallery of Victoria
in Melbourne, Australia.
Nancy Pobanz (B.F.A. ’81, M.F.A. ‘96) held an
exhibit, In Confidence, at the White Lotus Gallery
in Eugene, OR, in October.
Stephen Cohen’s (B.A. ’82) 1979 vinyl album,
The Tree People, produced with his Eugene
acoustic band of the same name, has been
rediscovered; it will be distributed by Tiliqua
Records of Japan as a CD. Stephen currently
lives in Portland, OR.
Jennifer C. Cooper (B.A. ’82) recently joined
Bentz Whaley Flessner, a philanthropic development firm, as a senior associate with the
advancement services practice. She currently
lives in Eden Prairie, MN.
Cristina Acosta (B.F.A. ’88) was featured on
the Oregon Public Broadcasting show, Art Beat,
in March 2007. She also exhibited Exhibit Love
Now/El Amor Ahora in selected Nordstrom
store locations nationwide in September and
October for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Allen Cox (B.F.A. ’88, M.F.A. ‘91) exhibited
artwork at the Butters Gallery in Portland, OR, in
July 2006. Cox currently lives in Knoxville, TN.
In February, Whitney Nye (B.A. ’90) held an
exhibit of her new work, A Part, at the Laura
Russo Gallery in Portland, OR.
Devin Laurence Field (B.F.A. ’91, M.F.A. ‘93)
unveiled new sculpture at the Waterstone Gallery in Portland, OR, in July 2006.
Tallmadge Doyle (M.F.A. ‘93) held an exhibition at the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts
in Eugene, OR, in November. In December, she
exhibited Mysterium Cosmographicum at the
Augen Gallery in Portland, OR.
Peter Patchen (M.F.A. ’93) was hired as
Chairman of the Department of Digital Arts at
the Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, NY.
Cyndy Duerfeldt (B.F.A. ‘97) and Jani Hoberg Hicks (M.F.A. ‘85) exhibited work in 3
Brushes and a Press at La Follette Off Broadway Gallery in Eugene, OR, in June.
Chaiporn Panichrutiwong (M.F.A. ‘99) is
working for IT-TIRIT House, a graphic design
and animation company, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Daniel Peabody (B.F.A. ’00, M.F.A. ‘03) was
hired as Assistant Director/Gallery Manager of
the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, OR.
Julie Nuthals Ashlock’s (M.F.A . ’00)
Synesthesia, a collection of oil paintings that
blend urban and natural landscape elements,
was exhibited at the Manayunk Art Center in
Philadelphia, PA, in July.
John Pagliaro (M.F.A. ’00) held a ceramics
exhibition at the Garth Clark Gallery in NY, NY.
His studio is located in Shelter Island, NY.
Nat Meade (B.F.A. ’01) exhibited at the Froelick Gallery in Portland, OR. He is currently
studying in the M.F.A. program at Pratt Institute
in Brooklyn, NY.
Art History
Tara Bambrey-Jecklin (M.A. ’98) is the Operations Manager at the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) in Eugene, OR.
Sharon Sprouse Weir (B.A. ’99) teaches
middle school social studies at The Northwest
Academy, a small, independent school in downtown in Portland, OR.
Amanda C.R. Clark (B.A. ’01, M.A. ’05) received the graduate council fellowship at the
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, to complete
an M.L.S. in the School of Library and Information Studies.
Christina Walters (B.A. ’01) recently graduated from the Stephen F. Austin University MED
Reading Specialist program and accepted a
job with the Hillsboro Ore. School District as a
reading coach and teacher. She also purchased
a wild salmon business in Alaska.
Arts & Administration/
Arts Education
Karen Keifer-Boyd (M.S. ’89) and Jane
Maitland-Gholson published a guidebook for
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teachers, Engaging Visual Culture, that provides practical strategies to think critically about
visual culture, its meaning, and impact. Karen
is professor of art education in the School of
Visual Arts at Penn State University.
Shunney Chung Nair (B.S. ’93) was nominated vice chair of the Houston, Texas, Municipal
Art Commission.
An article by Susan Appe (M.A. ’06) was
featured in the online Community Arts Network
publication. Susan is currently a Fulbright Fellow
in Bogota, Colombia, where she is researching
the National Culture Plan of Colombia.
Planning, Public Policy &
Management
Historic Preservation
Ken Guzowski (M.S. ‘90) presented a slide
lecture at the Eugene Garden Club addressing
the history and architectural heritage of the River
Road area. Ken lives in Eugene and is the city’s
Historic Preservation Program Senior Planner.
Scott M. Fitzpatrick (M.S. ’03) is currently
teaching archaeology at North Carolina State
University in Raleigh and is conducting fieldwork
in the Caribbean and Micronesia.
Marti Gerdes (M.S. ‘04) began work as the
historical landscape architect for Yosemite National Park in February 2007. She will develop
prescriptive treatment guidelines for all significant landscapes and features within the park.
Interior Architecture
Three hundred pieces of silver, metalwork, and
jewelry from Margo Grant Walsh’s (B.I.Arch.
‘60) personal collection and thirty pieces from
the Margo Grant Walsh Silver Collection will
be exhibited at the San Francisco International
Airport from February through August 2007.
Karen Gallas Kruger (B.I.Arch. ’86) founded
Eugene-based KK Commercial Interiors, whose
work focuses on commercial space design.
Mithun, a Seattle architecture and design firm,
promoted Erin Krohn (B.I.Arch ’96) to Senior
Associate in June 2006.
Landscape Architecture
Doug Macy (B.L.A. ‘69) won an ALSA Merit
Award for Landscape Planning and Analysis
for his work on the UC Riverside East Campus
Entrance Area Study. He is a principal at Walker
Macy in Portland, OR.
Nick Wilson (B.L.A. ‘81) won an ALSA Visionary, Technology, and Innovation Merit Award for
his work on Stephen Epler Hall at Portland State
University. He is a partner at Atlas Landscape
Architecture in Portland, OR.
Jim Figurski (B.L.A. ‘82) won the ALSA
Landscape Architectural Design Merit Award
for his work on Tanner Springs Park. Jim works
for GreenWorks in Portland, OR.
Paul Morris (B.L.A. ’84) was featured in
Parsons Brinkerhoff’s December 2006 edition
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Award for her work on the Portland Institute of
Contemporary Art 2005 Time Based Art Festival, The Works Garden. She works for BOORA
Architects in Portland, OR.
Kelly Densmore (M.L.A. ‘06) and Jason Koch
(B.L.A. ‘06) were hired as associates in the
Eugene office of Cameron, McCarthy, Gilbert
& Scheibe, a landscape architecture and land
use planning firm.
In October 2006, Kevin Mock (M.L.A. ’06)
was awarded the first prize Award of Excellence
from the ALSA in Minneapolis for his project,
Creating the Cartographic Landscape: Maps,
Representation, and Cognition.
Undergraduate architecture student Katy
Mokuau speaks with visiting professional
John S. Falconer, AIA (B. Arch. ‘87), a senior
associate at Gensler in San Francisco, California. The 7th Annual Professional Firms
Visiting Day was held on February 28, 2007.
It gave students an opportunity to meet professionals from the architecture and design
fields and to learn about careers and jobs.
of PB Notes. He has since left PB and joined
Cherokee Investment Partners to oversee all
planning, design and development of projects
in North America and Western Europe.
Jane Hansen (B.L.A. ‘87) and Kurt Lango
(B.L.A. ‘88) won the ALSA Visionary, Technology and Innovation Honor Award for their work
on the Word Play Project. Both are co-founders
and design leaders of Lango Hansen Landscape Architects in Portland, OR.
Mauricio Villarreal (B.L.A. ‘88) and Michael
Zilis (B.L.A. ‘82) won the ALSA Award of Excellence for their work on the South Waterfront
Greenway Development Plan in Portland, OR.
The project involved Walker Macy and Thomas
Balsley Association.
Patrick Gay (B.L.A. ’92) was named Principal
of Sites Southwest, a landscape architecture
firm based in Albuquerque, NM.
Steve Koch (B.L.A. ‘87) won an ALSA Landscape Architecture Design Merit Award for
his work on 10th and Hoyle Apartments. He
is the founding principal of Koch Landscape
Architecture in Portland, OR.
Maureen Raad (B.L.A. ’98, M.L.A. ‘99) won an
ALSA Merit Award for Landscape Planning and
Analysis for her work on Regional Inventory and
Wetland Mitigation Banking Strategy for Clark
County, WA. She is a natural resources project
manager for Vigil-Agrimis in Portland, OR.
Allison Rouse (B.L.A. ‘99) won an ALSA
Visionary, Technology, and Innovation Merit
Gregory Byrne (M.U.P. ’79) was hired in
February 2007 as the Director of Planning and
Community Development for the City of Bainbridge Island, Washington.
In April 2006, Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan (M.A.
’95) was elected to the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Vietnam at the 10th
Congress. More recently, he was appointed as
Minister of Education and Training for Vietnam.
Nguyen lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
In Memoriam
Jean Holmes Gillett (B.S. ’39) of Palo
Alto, CA, died on December 5 at the
age of 89. She was an active member of
the Universalist Church of Palo Alto and
a fervent activist for the right to die and
death with dignity. During the 1980’s she
was a charter member of the Hemlock
Society USA. She studied interiors with
Brownell Frasier.
E. Nelson Sandgren (B.A. ’43, M.F.A.
‘48) of Corvallis, OR, passed away on
August 17 at the age of 88. He received
his bachelor degree before serving in
WWII. Afterward, he returned to UO to
get his master’s degree. He was tenured
at OSU and retired as a full professor in
1987 after 39 years of teaching.
Lloyd Bond (B.L.A. ‘49) of Eugene,
OR, died on October 25 at the age of
88. Lloyd was in the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers during WWII and served
in the Air Force as a Major in the Korean
War. After his service he worked as a
Eugene-based landscape architect. His
papers are at the UO Library Special
Collections.
Sixty-one-year-old Brian Mostue
(M.L.A. ‘75) of Medford, OR, passed
away November 29. He worked for over
30 years with the design firm IDC/CH2M
Hill in Portland, OR, on domestic and
international projects.
ALUMNI & development NEWS
Friends create New Scholarship
PHOTO COURTESY OF PATRICK BERNING
In the early 70s, a house on Fairmount Boulevard in Eugene was home to a group of young,
eager architecture students. For these young men, their time at the University of Oregon living
in what came to be known as “The Fairmount Freak Farm” resonated in them and eventually
lead to the development of The FF Farm Scholarship to commemorate their experience.
The Freak Farm was collectively made up of: Gerry Beck (B. Arch. ‘72), Doug Nelson (B.
Arch. ‘72), Rick Rehfield (B. Arch. ‘72), Ron Skov (B. Arch. ‘72), Bruce Starkweather (B. Arch.
‘72), John Tucker (B. Arch. ‘72), and Frank Webb (B. Arch. ‘72). They formed their alliance
when they inherited the house on Fairmount from a group of graduating students. Because the
house had limited space, Bob Boyl, Stanford Hughes and Mike Smiley branched off to create
the Freak Farm Annex on Mill Street.
Life at the Freak Farm (FF) was anything but ordinary. FF members were more like a family than
college students, and shared responsibility for household duties. Some cooked, while others
cleaned and were dubbed the Dishwashers of America. However, FF members also had time
for play. The guys loved to huddle around the small television to watch the latest episode of Star
Trek, take trips to the Oregon coast for A&AA gatherings, or play touch football or Frisbee.
Despite what the FF name might suggest, members had a “nice neighborhood co-existence,”
said Doug Nelson, RA, of Mainstreet Architects and Planners, Inc. In fact, Nelson said he’s not
even sure where the name “Freak Farm” came from, saying, “It just happened.” Frank Webb,
AIA, of Frank R. Webb Architects, Inc., may have an idea: “I’m not positive, but it could have
come from us parking our VW buses on the front lawn and the parties we threw.” The FF was
certainly known as a party house, and having bonded with A&AA faculty, many parties included
architecture professors.
The close-knit bond that developed between the FF members extended into the studio. Nelson
said, “We had a unique living environment, as well as a unique learning environment.” The group
believed strongly in learning through building and was one of the first to launch design-build
projects on campus. They even landed a paid design-build job making interior improvements
for Paesano’s, a former Eugene restaurant.
Webb said that the FF years and the friendships that were formed allowed the guys to “test
and explore what was important in life with a group who had similar aspirations and goals and
also make partnerships along the way.” Nelson is quick to affirm that partnerships were made,
saying, “We’re all good friends and now it extends to our families, including our wives.”
Webb and Nelson have several goals for The FF Farm scholarship, a fund that provides support
for educational expenses to a student in architecture, including gathering additional support in
order to endow the fund and keep the Freak Farm memory alive for generations to come.
Architecture senior Patrick Berning, first UO
intern at Rich Mather Architects in London.
New Mather internship gift
When Patrick Berning talked his way into
a temporary job with renowned London
architect Rick Mather (B.Arch.’61) he
helped open the door for others in the
future. The firm’s experience with Berning
was so positive it helped to cement a gift
establishing the Rick Mather Architecture
Student International Internship Award. The
commitment provides a $10,000 stipend to
support one summer intern per year.
Alumni Eve nts Unde rway
It was a festive evening in Seattle this
fall when Puget Sound-area alumni met
Dean Frances Bronet and reconnected
with other A&AA alumni at an all-school
gathering held on November 30, 2006.
Organized by Mark Smedley ’84, Mithun
opened its doors to over 60 graduates.
Presentations by Seattle professionals
included Annie Han ‘93 and Dan Mihalyo
‘94; Johnpaul Jones, FAIA, ‘67; and Roger
Gula ‘95 and Ron Van der Veen ‘81.
Dean Bronet shared her thoughts about
the school and Vision 2014, the planning
process that will prepare the school for its
second century starting in 2014.
Save the Date for these upcoming
A&AA alumni gatherings and meet the
dean events:
• May 16th - Sacramento,
sponsored by Stafford King Wiese
• May 17th - San Francisco at the
Walker/Warner office
S tay Connected:
A & A A Alumni News
There are five easy ways to get and stay
connected with the school. As an alumnus,
friend, business, or parent, you can help
the School of Architecture and Allied Arts
advance its outreach, fundraising, and
student opportunities. Check out the new
on-line tools to help you stay involved.
1
Be a Volunteer
• Mentor students
• Be a guest reviewer or speaker
SIGN UP: Professional Connections
http://aaa.uoregon.educ/profconn
Questions? Call 541-346-1442
2
Hire a Duck (or two)!
• Join Professional Visiting Firms Day
on campus - winter term
• Interview at the annual Portland
Career Symposium – spring term
• Interview on campus – contact
PODS to arrange times
SIGN UP with UO JobsLink to post
jobs/internships:
http://uocareer.uoregon.edu/employers
Questions?
Call PODS office 541-346-2621
Or, email pods@uoregon.edu
3
Help us Recruit
• Learn more at
http://admissions.uoregon.edu.
• Check out the school’s website at
http://aaa.uoregon.edu
4
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• Invest in the school with annual
donations and campaign gifts.
• Designate your gift to the School of
Architecture and Allied Arts.
SIGN UP: http://giving.uoregon.edu
Questions? Call 541-346-3697
5
Leave a Legacy
• Write the school in your will.
• Explore gift planning options and
benefits.
Email: giftplan@oregon.uoregon.edu
Questions? Call 1-800-289-2354
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Annie Han (B. Arch. ’93) and Daniel Mihalyo
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created a successful practice which bridges the
gap between art and architecture. Their firm,
Lead Pencil Studio, includes an architectural
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scale. Han and Mihalyo formed Lead Pencil Annie Han (B. Arch. ‘93) and Daniel Mihalyo
Studio in Seattle in 1997. The small studio takes (B. Arch. ‘94) standing in front of the glass
on three architectural projects a year so that they and steel kiosk in Lawrence Hall that they
can maintain their art practice. According to designed as students.
Han, “[we] are working in a new territory that brings art to architecture.”
Han and Mihalyo’s art draws heavily from their architectural background, and is characterized by material use and spatial inquiry—they create large-scale site-specific pieces,
often out of steel, with an eye towards the creation of historic forms. The couple received a
Creative Capital grant in 2006 to help fund their most recent work, the Maryhill Double, a
replica of the Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington. During this past summer, the double
was constructed on the opposite side of the Columbia River
Gorge with scaffolding and construction netting. According to
Mihalyo, the piece, which billowed in the wind and appeared
blue or white depending upon light, “was an exploration to
see how minimal of a gesture could be
employed to create space.”
Mihalyo, a native of Washington,
and South Korean born, Han, met as
undergraduate students in the early
1990s in the UO architecture department. At their lecture given at the UO in
November 2006, Mihalyo was quick to
point out that Han was his studio critic
during their days as students. The two
joked about the complexities of having
a business, and a creative and personal
partnership; it is clear, however, that
their work has flourished as a result of
their collaboration. Professor Donald
Proposal image of the Maryhill Double installation,
Peting described the couple as being
Above: The completed Maryhill Double
“among the hardest working and most
active students to have passed through the architecture department.”
As undergraduates, the two won a design competition for a freestanding steel display
kiosk in Lawrence Hall. Also, as undergraduates, they collaborated on the renovation of a
building for Goodwill Industries, which won a State of Oregon Development of the Year
Award for revitalizing downtown Springfield.
Han and Mihalyo’s interest in materials and their active participation in the construction process gained them attention in 2000 with
the construction of their home. The couple, experienced in welding, built their 1,400 square foot
home in Seattle largely out of steel, as well as
concrete and glass.
Gaining national attention, Han and Mihalyo
were selected in 2006 as an Emerging Voice in the
field of architecture by the Architecture League
of New York. Their work has been featured at
numerous museums and galleries throughout the
country, including the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, and they have received multiple
grants, awards, and residencies.
Information about Han and Mihalyo’s work can 4 Parts House, Han and Mihalyo’s home
be found at http://leadpencilstudio.com.
in Seattle, designed in 2000
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