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The University of Oregon College of Design (UO Design) is a public college of
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and
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in the U.S. state of
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. Founded in 1914 by Ellis F. Lawrence, the college is located on the
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in Eugene, off the corner of 13th and University streets, and also has programs at the historic
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in Portland, Oregon.


History

At its inception in 1914, Ellis F. Lawrence envisioned that the School of Architecture and Allied Arts (now the College of Design) would incorporate architectural education with the arts as opposed to engineering, and became the first school to do so. The students would learn in an individual but collaborative environment instead of a fiercely competitive environment. When Walter R. B. Willcox became the head of the architecture curriculum in 1922, the underlying idea became that architecture and the arts would reflect societal influences, which had remained alive through the decades. After
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, student enrollment in the school ballooned and separate departments for each curricular subject were created. In the Spring of 2017 it was announced that the school would rename itself the College of Design.


Programs

The college is divided into three schools and one department: School of Architecture & Environment, School of Art + Design, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture.


School of Architecture & Environment

The architecture program was in place since the inception of the school, though it didn’t become a department of the school until 1964. Just five years after its founding, in 1919, the school gained an early form of accreditation through the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Only twelve schools out of forty schools that applied obtained accreditation that year. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are accredited by the
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and had been the only school in the state of Oregon to be accredited until
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earned its accreditation in 2013. The landscape architecture program was first founded in
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, now known as
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in 1928. The program was moved to the
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in 1932, where it was expanded into a five-year program. The masters program was established a year later.


School of Art + Design

The School of Art + Design offers an array of fine arts including various digital media, ceramics, fibers, metals and jewelry, photography, painting, and sculpture. Students’ work is periodically displayed in the LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall. The product design program began in the fall of 2008, from a partnership between the school’s department of art and the interior architecture program. The program, sparked by a $1.5 million donation from
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CEO Tim Boyle, works with firms such as Ziba Design,
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,
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, and Sandstrom Design. The department offers a four-year BFA degree in product design as well as a master of science in Sports Product Design in Portland.


School of Planning, Public Policy and Management

The School of Planning, Public Policy and Management offers degrees in community and regional planning, public administration, and nonprofit management.


Facilities

The college is primarily housed in Lawrence Hall at the
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campus, which provides lecture halls, classrooms, studios, the Design Library, a materials resource library, and a computer lab with plotting services. The college also occupies the University's facility in the White Stag Block in
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, with classes in urban architecture, historic preservation, product design, and sports product design. The LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall displays selected student work.


Rankings

The journal ''DesignIntelligence,'' in its 2010 rankings of architecture schools, ranked the University of Oregon's undergraduate architecture program number 7 overall in the nation. It also ranked first in the country in the area of "Sustainable Design Practice and Principles," and number 5 for "Analysis and Planning." This was an 11-spot improvement from the 2009 rankings where the architecture program was also ranked first place, tying with University of California at Berkeley, in the category of skills assessment for sustainable design concepts and principles.http://pmr.uoregon.edu/current-uo-news/archive/2009/january/uo-architecture-programs-score-high-in-national-ranking/ In 2007, the landscape architecture program was ranked first in the nation in sustainable design, while the architecture and interior architecture programs were ranked second in sustainable design. Several programs have historically been ranked highly in various publications over the years. '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the graduate architecture program at number 15 in their 1998 edition of ‘’Best Graduate Schools’’. The journal ''DesignIntelligence'' annually ranks architecture programs in the United States in its issue "America's Best Architecture & Design Schools" and the undergraduate architecture program has consistently ranked within the top 15 and as high as 11 between 2004 and 2008.The Top U.S. Architecture Schools
/ref> The undergraduate and graduate interior architecture programs were ranked 10th and 6th, respectively. The undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture programs were tied at 15th and ranked 13th, respectively. In the more regionalized rankings, ''DesignIntelligence'' in 2007 had ranked the graduate architecture program at first in the western region, tied with Southern California Institute of Architecture. The undergraduate program had placed second in the western region behind California Polytechnic State University in the same publication. The interior architecture program ranked first in both graduate and undergraduate in the western region and undergraduate landscape architecture ranked third.


Notable alumni

* Howard Backen, BArch (1962), founder of BAR Architects and Backen, Gillam & Kroeger *
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, BArch (1980), founder of Allied Works Architecture * Tinker Hatfield, BArch (1977), VP, designer and architect for
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* Thomas Hubka *
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, BArch (1952), architect credited with bringing modernist architecture to
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* LaVerne Krause *
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Alan Lowe Alan Lowe (born July 26, 1961) is a Canadians, Canadian politician. He served as mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, 1999–2008. Education In 1982 Lowe earned a bachelor's degree in environmental studies from the University of Manitoba, and ...
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Rick Mather Rick Mather (May 30, 1937 – April 20, 2013) was an American-born architect working in England. Born in Portland, Oregon and awarded a B.arch. at the University of Oregon in 1961, he came to London in 1963 and worked at the architectural firm L ...
, B.IArch (1961), RIBA, Founder of
Rick Mather Architects Rick Mather (May 30, 1937 – April 20, 2013) was an American-born architect working in England. Born in Portland, Oregon and awarded a B.arch. at the University of Oregon in 1961, he came to London in 1963 and worked at the architectural firm ...
, Trustee of
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* Jason F. McLennan, BArch (1997), creator of the
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and CEO of McLennan Design * Sarah Susanka *
Eugene Tsui Eugene Tssui ( born Eugene Tsui, September 14, 1954) Eugene Tsui, ''Evolutionary Architecture: Nature as a Basis for Design'' (John Wiley & Sons, 1999), . is an American architect noted for his use of ecological principles and "biologic" desig ...
* Ron Wigginton *
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