University of Oregon School of Architecture & Environment

🦆 We can’t thank our community enough for gifting to the College of Design for ! Yesterday, our schools, departments, and programs raised $142,386 through the generosity of 83 gifters, including the Sandy Smalley $125,000 Challenge Gift supporting student scholarships in memory of her late son, Jeffrey Marc Smalley.

🦆 Passionate about the built environment around you and how it can be improved?

The University of Oregon School of Architecture & Environment stands out nationally for our innovation and sustainability research in the design of buildings, interiors, landscapes, and communities. Students develop a vast and diverse skillset for creation and design through collaborative, experiential learning opportunities led by faculty and industry professionals. Our learn to address real-world challenges with real-world solutions.

Please consider giving to the School of Architecture & Environment or one of our programs.
https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/giving-day/112779/department/112782

2026 has started early! Help us reach our goal of 75 gifts to unlock the $125,000 Challenge Gift from Sandy Smalley, funding student scholarships for our ! Every donation brings us one step closer to our goal and fuels scholarships, research, and student experiences!

Click to give today! https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/giving-day/112779/department/112782

🦆 The UO School of Architecture & Environment is nationally recognized for its innovation and sustainability research, including the design of buildings, interiors, landscapes, and communities. In our school, students develop a vast and diverse skillset for creating and designing. They are given collaborative, experiential learning opportunities under the guidance of faculty and industry professionals to create real-world solutions for real-world problems.

Please consider giving to the School of Architecture & Environment or one of its programs for . https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/giving-day/101272/department/101275

The Port of Portland has approved a lease for the Oregon Acoustic Research Laboratory (OARL) – a state-of-the-art facility for conducting acoustics tests of mass timber floor-ceiling assemblies – to be implemented in the Mass Timber and Housing Innovation Campus! The lab is expected to be completed in 2027.

Port approves UO acoustic research laboratory at the Mass Timber and Housing Innovation Campus at Terminal 2 Port of Portland - Newsroom

The Bruton Design Intensive 2024 Workshop final presentation is tomorrow!

Saturday, September 21st from 3-5 pm
At Everyone Village
3825 Janisse St, Eugene, OR 97402

The 2024 Pacific North west preservation Field School wrapped up on Friday after 3 weeks of instruction in on Whidbey Island in Washington State. This year’s PNWPFS was held in Deception Pass State park, which has a collection of buildings and structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s, providing infrastructure for visitors coming to enjoy the rugged coastline and old-growth forest.

Field school students worked on a Civilian Conservation Corps Comfort station constructed in c.1938 as part of the Cranberry Lake parking area extension project. Students completed Log Purlin and Rafter Repairs, Window Reconstruction and Glazing, Hardware restorations, and general restorative cleaning on the structure.

Congratulations to all Field school students and instructors on a the work completed in Field School this year!

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The latest news from the 2024 American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE), in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Top Ten Awards for Sustainable Design Excellence further reinforces the expertise and claims made by the historic school, as a former SAE student and current alumna captured one of the top ten student awards. 

Sofia Gonzales, BArch ‘24, was selected as a winner for the 2024 COTE Top Ten for Students Competition, with Assistant Professor and Director of the Baker Lighting Lab Siobhan Rockcastle, Kelly Kottlowski (MArch ‘23) and Octavio Guttiérez (BRIC Architects) identified as the faculty sponsor and project collaborators, respectively.  Gonzales’s project rose to the top in the face of fierce competition from hundreds of project entries across ACSA’s member and affiliate schools in the US and abroad. Gonzales’s winning project, titled Widely Accessible Vocational Education Center (WAVE), bases its idea on the symbolic nature of waves to represent the continuous and progressive nature of learning. Taking this concept and building on its foundation to deliberately create a space for students to engage and interact with their environment and each other, through new and novel ways.

COTE Top Ten award program was founded on the idea that sustainability and design excellence are two sides of the same coin. Now in its twenty-ninth year, the COTE Top Ten has become the industry’s best-known award program and has recognized innovative projects from current SAE students and alumni with numerous awards, reinforcing SAE as one of the top schools for sustainability excellence.  

For more about Sofia’s award-winning project visit https://archenvironment.uoregon.edu/aia-recognizes-sae-and-student-sustainability-excellence.

Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Sustainable Urban Design — Streetsblog USA A new book hopes to be a powerful tool to understand how sustainable transportation networks can fit within them.

Apply today for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School! For information and to apply, visit archenvironment.uoregon.edu/pnwfs

Eager to learn more about how to preserve historic buildings? Join the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School in late August and early September at Deception Pass State Park in Washington! Visit archenvironment.uoregon.edu/pnwfs for more information and to apply.

Interested in Historic Preservation? Join the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School in late August and early September at Deception Pass State Park in Washington! Visit archenvironment.uoregon.edu/pnwfs for more information and to apply.

Fascinated by historic places? Join the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School in late August and early September at Deception Pass State Park in Washington! Visit archenvironment.uoregon.edu/pnwfs for more information and to apply.

2024 Pacific Northwest Field School Overview