🦆 We can’t thank our #OregonDesignDucks community enough for gifting to the College of Design for #DucksGive!
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.
Schindler Space Architect is an independently produced documentary examining the works and life of a pioneer of modern architecture, R.M. Schindler, narrated by Meryl Streep and Udo Kier, featuring renowned architects Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Thom Mayne, Ray Kappe among many others.
Austrian-born and educated, R. M. Schindler changed forever the architectural landscape of Los Angeles and laid the foundation for what now is considered the California lifestyle of indoor-outdoor living. His house on Kings Road, in West Hollywood built in 1922, was the birthplace of the Southern California Modernism so celebrated today, and it is now considered by many historians to be the first modern house built anywhere in the world.
A true original, Schindler, experimented and invented over a period of 30 years: suffering the ups and downs of a creative genius, forging his own vision. This documentary explores Schindler’s richly complex work, with its influences from the turn of the 20th century Vienna, the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the pueblos of Taos and the 20th century realities of Southern California. It is an investigation into Schindler’s philosophy of Space Architecture as contrasted with the International Style that ruled modern architecture during most of the architect’s life. It engagingly reexamines Schindler’s complicated relationship with his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright, and his former friend turned rival, Richard Neutra. Neutra became the poster boy for the International style while Schindler further developed Wright’s ideas of space architecture. Both Viennese, Schindler and Neutra become the quintessential California architects — Neutra was the celebrated one and Schindler was overlooked. The documentary asks key questions about the importance of domestic architecture in creating a national culture and as a living entity that shapes humanity. It affirms the singular genius of one man, and the eternal challenge every artist faces to stay true to their vision in an effort to leave a lasting impact.
🦆 The School of Architecture and Environment is committed to the principles of civic responsibility, environmental sustainability, international understanding, and interdisciplinary education. Between learning skills like sustainable farming and gardening in urban environments and creating houses using breakthrough materials, our students and faculty are among the best in the world when it comes to designing buildings, interiors, landscapes, and communities. #DucksGive #UOArchitecture #UOLArch #UOIArch #TallWoodDesign Please consider giving to the School of Architecture & Environment or one of our programs. To give, click the link in @uoregondesign ’s bio!
🦆 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 #OregonDesignDucks learn to address real-world challenges with real-world solutions. #DucksGive #UOArchitecture #UOLArch #UOIArch
Please consider giving to the School of Architecture & Environment or one of our programs. To give, click the link in @uoregondesign ’s bio!
#DucksGive 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 #OregonDesignDucks! Every donation brings us one step closer to our goal and fuels scholarships, research, and student experiences!
Click the link in the @uoregondesign bio to give today!
Final Review Schedule is here! Good luck to all the students who are finishing up their project, and to the students, faculty, guests, and reviewers come support your peers and students during final review week!
Andrew Linn is a principal and founder of BLDUS, an architecture practice based in the District of Columbia that is imagining a new American vernacular. Alongside his work with BLDUS, Andrew conducts material and urban research from his position as Visiting Professor of Practice at Virginia Tech. His work with BLDUS has been honored with an Architectural League of NY Emerging Voices Award, an Architectural Record Vanguard Award, an Architectural Review Emerging Shortlist, and an AN 40 Under 40, among others. Andrew has organized and led healthy material workshops, exhibits, and talks, and has traveled extensively, following natural building materials to their origins in the Earth.
5:30pm PST
Friday, May 15, 2026
UO Portland
Highland Hall Gallery
6410 NE 27th Ave, Portland, OR
Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92817888580
Last weekend, students from the Portland Architecture Program were hosted by Chris Brown @observationstudio for a generous tour of their Sequitur winery project in the Chehalem Valley outside of Newberg, Oregon. Completed in 2022, the project includes a restored timber barn and silo from an existing farm on site along with a series of sensitive new additions, including production facilities, storage cellar, and an intimate tasting room. Weathering metal and locally-sourced wood milled on-site combined with other reclaimed materials provide a rich palette that resonates with the surrounding landscape. Thank you to Chris and the team at @sequiturwine for the hospitality.
Students in the @uoarchenv Winter 2026 Working Drawings Studio were tasked with imagining an adaptive re-use of the Whiteaker Community Council Building, which is currently used by Head Start of Lane County as a food bank, and was designed by architect DeNorval Unthank, Jr.
The primary deliverable for this studio was a set of construction documents showing the student’s detailed design intent for their project.
They also milled their own model wood to make large-scale framing models of the existing structure, which were later revised to illustrate each student’s intervention.
@uoregondesign@uoarchenv
THIS SATURDAY ONLY–– MAY 9.
8 am – 4 pm
31799 Green Island Rd, Eugene
Open to all ages.
The "Alpha-Chem Signal" project is a free and accessible, one-day pop-up outdoor exhibit that features eye-catching work blended with activism and novel, accessible education. #OregonDesignDucks #UOArchEnv #UOLArch
Great work from the @uoarchenv ARCH284 midterm today!
Students in this studio are designing the Foothills Field Institute, an ecological research and education center located next to the old-growth forest at the McGowan Creek Environmental Education Area in Mohawk, OR.
Just Practice (Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien) spans architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, community engagement, textile, and graphic design, as well as activist and organizing work within the design field. We think about modes of practice, the spatialization of memory, Black feminist practices, the historical role of women in architecture, and strategies for collective care. just practice has exhibited at Northeastern University, Mills College, MIT Museum, Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center, MIT Rotch Architecture Gallery, Yale School of Art and Boston Society of Architects, and our work is in private collections and in the permanent collection at the MIT Museum. Our piece Soft City was awarded the inaugural City Talks Digital Gallery Award from the Spatial Analysis Lab at USC, and we were finalists for the Harvard University Radcliffe Institute Public Art Competition.
- Workshop Hayden Gallery 9:00 - 11:00 (range) Hayden Gallery
- Catered lunch reception: 12:00 - 1:00 Hayden Gallery    
- Lecture: Lawrence Hall 1:00 -2:00 Lawrence 177 with Zoom & Recording https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/99664278398
