School of Architecture & Environment News

The testing facility is part of the Port of Portland’s larger plans to convert Terminal 2 into a Mass Timber and Housing Innovation Campus. Once complete, the campus will encompass 39 acres and include a new factory for building modular housing and other mass timber structures, research and new product development and workforce training.

Pro Tem Instructor, Joan Honeyman, ASLA, was selected by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) this year as an ASLA Fellow for their exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. Congratulations, Joan!

Professor of Architecture and Environmental Studies Erin Moore and Matt Wittman discuss the overlaps between their very different practices, with a focus on their shared attention to the physical line between buildings and ground, or between soil and atmosphere.

KGW8 explores the history of Elk Rock Garden, the location of this year's Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School.

Fox 12 Oregon came to the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School to watch and listen as students worked on the historic Elk Rock Garden in Portland.

Michael Zaretsky was awarded one of the 2025 outstanding department head awards from the Office of the Provost. Every year, the office recognizes two department heads and awards each with $5,000 payable at their discretion as either a stipend or to their Academic Support Account (ASA).

Justin Fowler, director of UO Portland Architecture, and his colleagues talk with Architectural Record on the potential of the new Portland campus and how Lever Architecture helped bring it to life.

"The Oregonian" recounts the history of the historic Elk Rock Garden estates, talking briefly about the Historic Preservation Department's Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School's involvement with the area's future.

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

DeNorval Unthank, Jr., BArch '51, joins four other black architects who's works were given preservation funding through Conserving Black Modernism, an initiative led by the Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

Oregon's mass timber industry is a semifinalist for a federal "Regional Innovation Engine" grant aimed at research and development that will fuel economic growth.

Recent architecture grad and 2025 Net Zero Emerging Leader Interns, EJ Del Rosario, was profile by the Energy Trust of Oregon.