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College of Design Part of University of North Texas Team that Secured $1.6 Million Grant

An interdisciplinary team of researchers, that includes Yekang Ko and Junhak Lee, helped secure $1.5 million grant for five-year study on urban forests.
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UO programs bolstered by $16M in Build Back Better funds

Researchers at the University of Oregon will receive more than $16 million in federal funds as part of a major government grant to the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge.
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DesignIntelligence Surveys Due August 8

For the past 22 years, DesignIntelligence has conducted its annual survey of architecture and design schools. The survey asks hiring professionals, current students, and recent alumni to provide their perspective on the strengths of U.S. architecture and design programs.

RALX's take on Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock house for a design competition

Journey to Un-Earth the Black Aesthetic

Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture, Robert Clarke, is on a mission to unearth the buried history of the architectural style and history of the African American community while bringing novel ideas to the classroom.
Giang Phung's adaptive refugee housing concept from Earl Mark's studio class.

Architects & Settlement Experts Provide Global Perspectives on Refugee Housing

The Adaptive Refugee Housing brought perspectives from Europe, the Middle East, and the United States to the University of Oregon for a panel discussion, a faculty and grad student seminar, and hands-on Adaptive Shelter Workshops.
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The Mt. Angel Library is the location for this year's Reynolds Symposium.
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Interior Architecture Program Shows-off at Upcoming New York City Furniture Show in May

Assistant Professor, Cory Olsen, has two furniture prototypes at a prestigious Manhatten event this May.
Sustainable cities and landscapes will be crucial for an uncertain climate future.

College of Design Helps Write the Handbook on Sustainable Cities and Landscapes

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim, a culmination of a multiyear collaboration project between numerous universities including faculty and staff from the University of Oregon's College of Design, was published on March 16, 2022. School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management (PPPM) associate professor Yizhao Yang led this initiative with Anne Taufen of the University of Washington as co-editors of this handbook.
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Design for Spatial Justice Fellow Investigates The Black Aesthetic

Wilson W. Smith III Visiting Faculty Fellow in Design for Spatial Justice, Robert Clarke has a new lecture coming to Eugene that utilizes novel methodologies to investigate how one can interject black culture into architectural forms and motifs, how can we unearth a recognizable aesthetic that expresses lost histories, current histories, and cultural norms that is specific to African American Culture.
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Anupam Satumane Receives NIKE Research PhD Fellowship

We interviewed Architecture Doctoral student Anupam Satumane about his research and landing a Nike Fellowship. Here's what he shared with us.
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Studying Ventilation, Filtration, and Humidity's Impact on COVID-19

Architecture Professor Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, along with his staff and doctoral students, study the affect different variables have on decreasing COVID-19's viral load.
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Architecture Students Light Up Portland Winter Light Festival

University of Oregon Architecture students have taken over a corner of the White Stag Block for the Portland Winter Light Festival.

A team of student's posing in a wooden structure they created.

Architecture Professor Judith Sheine Wins 2022 Timber Education Prize with “Mass Timber Design Focus” Course

Architecture Professor Judith Sheine's class at the TallWood Design Institute – a collaboration between the UO's College of Design and OSU's Colleges of Forestry and Engineering – wins a 2022 Timber Education prize.

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OregonBILDS: From the Ground Up

The SAE design studio and construction build recently completed four tiny homes for veterans.