School of Architecture & Environment Associate Professor Mark Eischeid was awarded a one-month research fellowship by Dumbarton Oaks in Landscape Studies. Dumbarton Oaks, overseen by the Trustees for Harvard University, fosters research and scholarship in Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies.

"The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook", the latest publication from Professor of Architecture Nico Larco and Kaarin Knudson, AIA, MArch '07, builds on the university's storied reputation as a leading sustainable design school with a substantive, yet approachable handbook that gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from numerous fields to flesh out the ideas of sustainable urban design.

Timberlab, collaborator with leading academic research programs at Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and the Tall Wood Design Institute and a leading national provider of holistic mass timber systems, announced its plans to construct and operate a state-of-the-art cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing facility in Oregon's mid-Willamette region.

Professor Emeritus Kevin Nute and SAE have reason to celebrate. Nute's latest book, "Embodied Time: Temporal Cues in Built Spaces", was shortlisted for a 2024 Architectural Book Award. The book explores how architectural and spatial cues can shape our perception and experience of time within constructed spaces.

The Department of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture & Environment has reason to celebrate the 2024 Annual Award Winners announcement from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Ignacio López Busón, was one of only thirteen award winners, and one of two from the department to be picked from a competitive list of 56 applicants.

Urbanism Next Director and the School of Architecture & Environment Professor of Architecture, Nico Larco, joined KGW 8 to discuss the center's latest guide to help cities understand how to best roll autonomous vehicles out on their roads.

The Department of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture & Environment has reason to celebrate the 2024 Annual Award Winners announcement from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Associate Professor and Interim-Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Yekang Ko, was one of only thirteen award winners, and one of two from the department to be picked from a competitive list of 56 applicants.

Urbanism Next Director and School of Architecture & Environment Professor, Nico Larco, went on Oregon Public Broadcast's "Think Out Loud" to discuss the organization's latest guide aimed at community leaders to help navigate the questions and issues with integrating autonomous vehicles. In addition to the guide, Larco shared insights and implications concerning the rise of autonomous vehicles.

Director of Urbanism Next and Architecture faculty, Nico Larco, was featured in an Axios Article on the so-called "donut effect," a new dynamic shaping US cities with a hollow urban core as more and more individuals and businesses relocate to the suburbs and exurbs. Larco joins other expert commentary reflecting on and explaining this relatively new phenomenon and what cities can do to combat the new trend.

The Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes was awarded an Honor Award in Small Budget/Big Impact Land Lab and/or Pro Bono and Green Ribbon Award by the ASLA Oregon Design Awards program on November 17, 2023.

The Pacific Northwest Mass Timber Tech Hub (PNW Mass Timber Tech Hub), led by Oregon State University, aims to be a global leader in mass timber design and manufacturing to lower the construction industry’s carbon footprint and increasing housing affordability. The College of Design is celebrating the designation by the EDA as the college and its partners look to reinforce our expertise in the field of mass timber.

The Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in Urban Ecological Justice. It is well-documented that disadvantaged communities have significantly less access to clean water, healthy food, moderated microclimates, sanitation, secure shelter, flood control, waste collection, air quality, parks, urban wildlife, and natural beauty.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has designated landscape architecture as a STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) degree program. The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) advocated for the designation and has more news about this important development.