The Port of Portland has approved a lease for the University of Oregon’s acoustic research laboratory planned at the Mass Timber and Housing Innovation Campus at Terminal 2. The Oregon Acoustic Research Laboratory is the research and development anchor tenant planned for the campus, where the Port is transforming a former marine terminal in Portland’s Northwest industrial area into a manufacturing hub to support Oregon’s growing mass timber industry, create new jobs and address the region’s housing shortage.

During the 2024 fall term, University of Oregon students in Architecture Design Studio (ARCH 484/584) explored innovative solutions to sustainability through housing design projects for the City of Oakridge in partnership with the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP).

STREETSBLOG USA annual gift guide lists "The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook" as one of their top ten books for the year. The publication believes the book "is the perfect way to splurge on the advocate in your life who wants to level up her understanding of what green cities are really made of – including the invisible forces that subtly shape how they're structured."

In the future, your new home might be delivered by flatpack like an IKEA bookshelf. Instead of a frame of two-by-fours, workers would assemble prefabricated panels that fit together like pieces of a gingerbread house — only much more precisely.

Courtesy of the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition and OSU, the following video captures the impressions of the excited group of developers, builders, researchers, and community members who came to tour the MPP Workforce Housing prototype in Corvallis.

School of Architecture & Environment Landscape Architecture students, advised by Visiting Assistant Professor Ellee Stapleton, earned a 2024 ASLA National Student Honor Award for their project, titled Letitia Carson’s Legacy. The award-winning project utilizes the skills of landscape design to uplift several community organizations dedicated to honoring Letitia Carson, one of the first Black homesteaders in Oregon, and addressed many challenging concepts, including the delicacy of telling a history embedded in narratives of race, gender, displacement, and colonialism, all while supporting current agricultural land use.

Congratulations to Professor of Architecture, Ihab Elzeyadi, for being elected to the ARCC Board of Directors as their new Vice President and President-Elect. Elzeyadi is an architect, building scientist, and professor of architecture who has been engaged in the design, construction, and research of high-performance buildings for over 30 years.

Using Portland as a case study, a team of UO researchers has developed a more comprehensive way to evaluate urban green space equity. The study was published May 21 in the journal Land. Read more about this study and hear how Landscape Architecture PhD graduate, Evan Elderbrock, was able to help create the landmark study alongside other UO researchers.