Architects, Artists, Builders
Architects, Artists, and Builders of the University of Oregon
The following is a list of architects, artists, and building personnel who contributed to the buildings, outdoor sculpture, and landscape architecture of the University of Oregon. The entries are in alphabetical order by personal or corporate name, and include links to the relevant structures or sculpture.
2fORM Architecture
Adams, Percy
Percy Adams was a UO engineering graduate and later member of the Architecture faculty at the University of Oregon.
Alexander, Christopher
Amundson Associates
Ankrom Moisan
Annand & Kennedy, Architects & Engineers
John D. Annand (1907-94) opened a Portland architectural office in 1934 and in 1950 formed a partnership with Rove Davis Kennedy (1892-1975). The firm became Annand, Kennedy and Boone with the addition of Harold B. Boone as partner in 1950. Kennedy left the firm in 1953. When an employee of the firm, Wilbert P. Lei (1909-60), became a partner in 1953, the firm became Annand, Boone & Lei. Lei, a native of China, was educated in the U.S., practiced in China from 1932 until 1945, when he returned to the US and settled in Portland.
Sources:
"Annand, John Davis, Sr.," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 12-14.
"Kennedy, Rowe Davis.," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 225.
"Lei, Wilbert P..," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 250.
Architecture Building Culture (ABC) in collaboration with The Maxine Studio
Balasz, Harold (1928-2017)
Harold Balasz was a Northwest artist from Spokane, Washington.
Sources:
"Harold Balasz," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Balazs.
Washington State University holds Balasz's archives.
Balzhiser Seder & Rhodes
Beasley, Bruce (1939- )
Belluschi, Pietro (1899-1994)
Sources:
"Pietro Belluschi," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Belluschi
Bennes, John Virginius; Bennes and Hendricks (firm)
Treetops, with builder/contractor Archie Terrell and Lawrence Hunter
BOOR/A (Broome, Oringdulph, O'Toole & Rudolf)
Lawrence Hall (1990 addition)
Bora Architects; Ennead Architects
Brown Contracting, Inc.
Powell Plaza (builder/contractor)
Brown, Alison
Sources:
Artist's website: Campus Sculptures
Cameron McCarthy Gilbert Schiebe
Sources:
Website: Cameron McCarthy Gilbert Schiebe
Campbell, Michael and Yost
Campbell, William T.
Chabre, Wayne
Church, Newberry, and Roehr ; also, Church, Newberry, Roehr, Schuette ; Church, Walter
Walter E. Church (1893-1989) was a UO architecture graduate (1916), son of Susan Church Campbell and Prince Lucien Campbell, who worked as a draftsman for Lawrence & Holford and later received a masters in architecture from MIT. He became established with the prominent Portland firm of Morris H. Whitehouse. By 1935 the firm was named Whitehouse & Church. By 1949, with changes in partnerships, the firm became Church, Newberry & Roehr, including principals Frank Roehr (1899-1982) and Earl Newberry (1901-92). In 1957, the firm was renamed Church, Newberry, Roehr and Schuetter when Kurt Schuette (1917-87) was added as principal. Principal works include the US Courthouse, Portland (1931), Oregon State Library (1938), and involvement with the Oregon State Capitol when the firm was in association with principle architects Trowbridge & Livingston and Francis Keally.
Sources:
"Church, Walter Enos," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 75-76.
"Newberry, Earl Pressley," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 97-98.
"Roehr, Frank G.," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 338-39.
"Schuette, Kurt Paul," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 35.
Cook, Lin (1950- )
Untitled (McKenzie Hall)
Cook's company is called Eutectica Design and is located in Monroe, Oregon. Cook received a B.S. (Liberal Arts, 1979) and B.F.A. (1980) degrees from the University of Oregon.
Cuthbert, Fred
DeNorval Unthank Architect
Disbro, William
Before retirement, Disbro was an art professor at Jamestown (NY) Community College.
Eckland, Don (1942-1990)
A retrospective of the work of Don Eckland, "Bronze Sculpture: 1970-1990," was exhibited at the Art Center Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, April 22-May 10, 1991. Eckland was born in 1942 and died in 1990.
Edward, Roy
Fairbanks, Avard Tennyson
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Gale M. Roberts Construction Co.
Bowerman Family Building (builder/contractor)
Geise, John
Gillman, Steve
Steve Gillman is an artist living in Oakland, California. His education includes a BA (San Francisco State College, 1969) and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Oregon, 1976.
Sources:
Artist's website: Steve Gillman Sculpture
GMA Architects (Gerald McConnell Architects)
Greenamyer, George Mossman
Hacker
Hacker was founded in 1983 by Thomas Hacker, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who moved to Oregon in 1970 and taught at the University of Oregon. Other works by Hacker at the University of Oregon are the HEDCO building of the College of Education, the James F. Miller Theater Complex and the the Lewis Integrative Science Building. The firm was renamed "Hacker" in 2015 according to a press release of September 15, 2015.
Hansen, James Lee
Hardy, Tom
Harrison, James
HDR Inc.
Hensill, Yousta D.
Hoffman, Clay
Holman, Mack
The sculpture Spring Run was unveiled and the Glen Starlin courtyard was dedicated on May 18, 2000, at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Holman, a UO graduate, was responsible for the restoration of the Knight Library north facade bronze doors, originally designed by O. B. Dawson. Holman manages the Tsunami Gallery, in Gardiner, Oregon.
Hunzicker, John (1867-1945)
Born in 1867, Hunzicker moved to Eugene in 1903. He was responsible for about 150 buildings including the Eugene Hotel. He died in 1945.
Sources:
Lakin, Kimberly K. Life and Work of John Hunziker Architect. Univ. of Oregon Thesis, 1982.
Jackson, Diana Lee
Jellum, Keith
John Hyland Construction
Frohnmayer Music Building renovation
Student Recreation Center / Esslinger Hall expansion and renovation
Sources:
John Hyland Construction, http://www.jhconst.com/
Jones, Johnpaul (1941- )
Jones, a Native American born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, is a graduate of UO and founding principal of the Seattle firm, Jones & Jones.
Jones, Stan
Kahn, Ned (1960- )
Sources:
Artist's website: Ned Kahn Studios, nedkahn.com
Kelly, Lee (1932- )
Born in McCall, Idaho, in 1932, Lee Kelly attended Portland Art Museum School, 1954-59. In 1985, he received Governor's Award for the Arts (Oregon). Frequent traveler to Nepal, India, and Burma. Currently lives in Oregon City, Oregon.
Sources:
Jacques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art 1986, p. 1292.
Dictionary of American Sculptors 18th Century to Present (1984), p. 656.
Guenther, Bruce Fifty Northwest Artists (photos of artists by Marsha Burns), 1983, p. 118.
Jacques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976, p.756.
National Collection/Fine Arts * Art of the Pacific Northwest From the 1930s to the Present, p.141.
Portland Art Museum. The West Coast Now Current Work from the Western Seaboard,1968, p.160.
Rogers, Millard. Northwest Art Today Adventures in Art, 1962, p.106.
"Lee Kelly," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kelly
Kirkland, Larry (1950- )
Sources:
Artist's website: Larry Kirkland
Knighton, William Christmas (1867-1938)
William Christmas Knighton (1864-1938) was born in Indianapolis and came to Portland in the early 1890s where he worked for architect George W. Marshall. After employment in Salem, Ore., then California and Alabama, Knighton returned to Portland in 1902. From 1913-17 Kington served as Oregon's first State Architect. In 1924, Knighton formed a partnership with Leslie Dillon Howell (1884-1969) which lasted 1924-38. Knighton's works include Deepwood (1894), in Salem, the Governor Hotel (1908), Portland, the State Supreme Court Building (1913), and the Oregon National Guard Armory, Ashland.
Sources:
"William C. Knighton," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamC.Knighton.
William Christmas Knighton, Oregon Encyclopedia, https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/knighton-william/#.XeglYr97nU4.
"Knighton, William C.," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003.
Krumbein, Justus F.; William F. McCaw; FFA Architecture + Interiors
Kuby, Adam
Lawrence, Ellis F. and associated firms: Lawrence & Holford; Lawrence & Lawrence; Lawrence, Holford & Allyn; Lawrence, Holford, Allyn, and Bean
Gilbert Hall
Born in 1879, Ellis Fuller Lawrence was educated at Phillips Academy and received his architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After travel to Europe, he obtained employment with the Boston firm Codman and Despradelle which sent him to San Francisco to establish a West Coast office. The great 1906 earthquake persuaded Lawrence to stay in Portland where he established an architectural practice that lasted until his death. In 1914, Lawrence was employed by the Board of Regents to establish a plan for the University of Oregon and to develop an architectural program. Lawrence and his teaching associates, primarily W. R. B. Willcox, created an innovative architectural school which at one time was one of the largest in the U. S. Lawrence maintained a permanent home in Portland and commuted to Eugene. His last Eugene residence was a room in Collier House, where he died on Feb. 27, 1946. Lawrence's prolific output is documented in the Ellis Lawrence Building Survey (State Historic Preservation Office, 1989). The book Harmony in Diversity: The Architecture and Teaching of Ellis F. Lawrence (Eugene: Museum of Art and the Historic Preservation Program, 1989), published in conjunction with an exhibit of the architect's work, describes Lawrence's life, works, and significance.
Lawrence's architectural practice:
1906. Lawrence worked in the firm of Edgar Lazarus.
1906. Partnered with Ernest B. MacNaughton (1880-1960) and Herbert E. Raymond to form MacNaughton, Raymond & Lawrence. Lawrence was firm's principal designer.
1910-13. Lawrence practiced on his own.
1913-28. The firm Lawrence & Holford was established when Lawrence partnered with William G. Holford, MIT classmate. Lawrence was hired to create a long-range plan for the University of Oregon and to establish an architecture program. Lawrence's contract as dean of the School of Architecture & Allied Arts enabled him to continue professional practice. He maintained a permanent home and practice in Portland.
1928-33. Frederick Stanley Allyn (1883-1963) and Ormond R. Bean joined the firm, which became Lawrence, Holford, Allyn & Bean. Bean, a Eugene, Ore., native, and graduate from UO with a civil engineering degree (1909) began employment with the Lawrence firm in 1920. Upon election to the Portland City Council in1933, Bean left the firm. He remained active in Portland city government.
1934-41. Lawrence, Holford, and Allyn existed as a firm until 1941 when Holford and Allyn withdrew from the partnership.
1941-44. Lawrence practiced alone.
1944-46. The firm Lawrence and Lawrence existed with Ellis Lawrence and his son, Henry Abbott Lawrence. Ab Lawrence joined the firm Tucker and Wallmann (Lawrence, Tucker, and Wallmann) when Ellis Lawrence died in 1946.
Sources:
Consult the Guide to Architectural Materials in Special Collections for archival holdings on Ellis F. Lawrence.
"Allyn, Frederick Stanley," Architects of Oregon : A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased, 19th and 20th Centuries, 7-8.
"The Architecture of Ellis Lawrence Multiple Property Submission," National Register of Historic Places. PDF file. Accessed 7 Sept. 2004.
"Bean, Ormond R.," Architects of Oregon, 25-26.
"Ellis F. Lawrence," Architects of Oregon, 242-245.
"MacNaughton, Ernest Boyd," Architects of Oregon, 265-66.
Shellenbarger, Michael, et al. Ellis Lawrence Building Survey. Salem, OR: State Historic Preservation Office, 1989.
Shellenbarger, Michael, et al. Harmony in Diversity: The Architecture and Teaching of Ellis F. Lawrence. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Museum of Art and the Historic Preservation Program, 1989).
Lawrence, H. Abbot
Lawrence, Wallmann, and Tucker
In 1933, architect George Wallmann (1906-84) entered partnership with Ernest Fanning Tucker (1900-76), forming the Portland, Ore., firm Tucker and Wallmann. During the 1930s Tucker and Wallmann participated in recording works for the Historic American Buildings Survey. In 1946 H. Abbott Lawrence (1906-67), son of Ellis F. Lawrence, was added to the partnership, and the firm Lawrence, Tucker and Wallmann was created. The firm lasted until 1960. Tucker, whose exposure to architecture began as an office boy for the firm of Albert E. Doyle, was the principal designer of the firm. Tucker retired from practice in 1960. Wallmann relocated to Eugene and was employed as architect by the Oregon University System. In addition to works at UO, Lawrence, Wallmann, and Tucker designed buildings for the Oregon Zoo and Portland State University.
Sources:
"Abbott, Henry Abbott," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 245-6.
"Tucker, Ernest Fanning," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 93-4.
"Wallmann, George Rudolf, Jr.," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 406-7.
Lazarus, Edgar M.
Portland architect Edgar Lazarus, designer of Mechanical Hall (1901) is best known for the Vista House, Crown Point (1916). By 1901, Lazarus had already designed two buildings for Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University): Apperson Hall (1899) and Valley Gymnastics Center (1898), both still extant.
Sources:
"Edgar Lazarus," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 247-8.
Teague, Edward, Edgard M. Lazarus, Architect: Life and Legacy, https://pages.uoregon.edu/ehteague/lazarus/
Loppnow, Duane (1933-2013)
Mahlum Architects Inc.
Mandel, Mike
Sources:
Mike Mandel, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mandel
Martin, Willard K. (1930-1985)
Will Martin, a UO architecture graduate, started a Portland practice in the early 1960s then formed Martin and Sodestrom in 1966 with partner David A. Sodestrom. The firm became Martin, Sodestrom and Matteson in 1971 and dissolved in 1984. Notable among Martin's works is the award-winning design of Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland.
Sources:
"Martin, Willard Kenneth," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 274-75.
Meehan, Howard; Katherine Meehan; Tim O'Neil
Merryman Barnes Architects, Inc.; Fortis Construction, Inc.
Miller, Rolph H.
Rolph H. Miller was born in Missouri and studied at Washington University, St. Louis. He founded the Toledo School of Manual Training, Ohio, and planned the buildings there. After studying at MIT, he was employed by Whidden & Lewis to superintend the construction of the Portland City Hall and afterward started his own practice. He became a specialist in school design and his works include the D. P. Thompson and Holladay schools in Portland as well as McClure Hall at the University of Oregon. Miller organized the Portland Sketch Club and taught a free class in architecture at the Portland Y. M. C. A. He died on March 11, 1901, following an appendicitis operation.
Sources:
"Noted Architect Dead; R. H. Miller, Who Designed Late School Buildings. Death Came After an Operation for Appendicitis -- Sketch of a Useful, Earnest Life." Morning Oregonian, March 12, 1901, p. 8. portrait.
Morin & Longwood
John E. Stafford started a firm in 1945 in Eugene, Oregon; in 1957 Ken Morin joined as partner. Bother were graduates of the University of Oregon and Stafford taught at the architecture program 1960-62. James Longwood, also a UO graduate joined the firm in 1961; the following year Stafford left the partnership.
Morris, Ann
OBEC Consulting Engineers
Opsis Architecture
Peting, Don; Martin Gabbert; Fern Bottom Forge
Piper, William W. (1827-1886)
William W. Piper came to Portland from New Hampshire and was one of early Oregon's prominent architects. The State University Building (to be called Deady Hall) was his last project. Drawings for the project were completed by May 1873, and construction began that spring. Funding problems halted construction on the partially finished building which was eventually completed in 1876. Piper sued the Union University Association, the organization that managed UO's initial beginnings and funding, for lack of payment and eventually won but payments were not completed until 1877. Unable to compete successfully with the growing architectural community in Portland, Piper's practice substantially declined. He apparently committed suicide by jumping from a train, in Wyoming, on the way to visit his sister in Ohio. A contemporary account in the Cheyenne Sun, August 10, 1886, noted: "A crazy man jumped from a passenger train just west of Medicine Bow yesterday and was so terribly injured that he soon died." (Nelson, W. W. Piper)
Sources:
Nelson, Lee H. W. W. Piper, 1827-1886; Warren Heywood Williams, 1844-1888. Two Architects in Oregon (University of Oregon, 1956).
"Piper, William W.," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003,317-18.
Pivot Architecture
Pritchard, Louise Utter
Knight Library Heads Frieze (with Edna Dunberg)
Proctor, Alexander Phimister
Pugh, Walter D.
McClure Hall (builder/contractor)
Ratcliff Architects
Willamette Hall (with Moore Ruble Yudell)
Robertson Sherwood Architects
Rogers, John
Sources:
John Rogers, johnrogersart.com
Schroeder, Butch, with Stuart Woods of Woods Architects
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Sources:
"Owings, Nathaniel Alexander," Architects, 302-303. Website: SOM [Skidmore Owings Merrill]
Soderstrom Architects
Soderstrom Architects were responsible for the 1996 renovations of McArthur Court.
Sources:
Website: Soderstrom Architects TBG Architects & Planners.
SRG Partnership
Stafford, Jonathan
Stanton, Boles, Maguire and Church
Stephen H. Ford & Associates
Stephens, Keith E.
Storrs, Anne
Swanson, Richard
TBG Architects
Sources:
Website: TBG Architects & Planners Inc.
THA Architects; HDR Inc.
Thomas Hacker and Associates, Inc.
Hacker was founded in 1983 by Thomas Hacker, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who moved to Oregon in 1970 and taught at the University of Oregon. Other works by Hacker at the University of Oregon are the HEDCO building of the College of Education, the James F. Miller Theater Complex and the the Lewis Integrative Science Building. The firm was renamed "Hacker" in 2015 according to a press release of September 15, 2015.
TVA Architects
Tykeson, Ellen
Sources:
Artist's website; Ellen Tykeson, ellentykeson.com
Unthank Seder Poticha
Whidden and Lewis
Whidden and Lewis designed the first dormitory on the UO campus, later named Friendly Hall. Ion Lewis (1858-1933) and William M. Whidden (1857-1929) were both graduates of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Employed by the prominent New York firm McKim, Mead, and White, Whidden worked on the firm's Portland Hotel (1888) (now the site of Pioneer Square). He stayed in Portland to form a partnership with Ion Lewis. The Portland City Hall (1895) is among the existing works of this prolific firm.
Sources:
McMath, George. "Whidden and Lewis," The Grove Dictionary of Art. Web.
Marlitt, Richard. Matters of Proportion: The Portland Residential Architecture of Whidden & Lewis. Portland, 1989.
"Whidden & Lewis," Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 416-7.
White, F. Manson
Wicks & Hilgers
Williams, Warren Heywood (1844-1888)
Warren Heywood Williams (1844-1888) was an Oregon architect.
Sources:
"Warren Heywood Williams, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarrenHeywoodWilliams
Wilmsen, Endicott, and Unthank
Robert Wilmsen (1918-1999), Charles Endicott (1913-1997), form the firm Wilmsen-Endicott in 1948. and DeNorval Unthank (1929-2001) joined the firm in 1955 and became a partner in the firm Wilmsen, Endicott, Unthank which existed by that name 1960-68. Wilmsen's firm evolved to become WEGROUP Architects and Planners. Unthank joined Otto Potcha and Grant Seder to form Unthank Seder Poticha Architects (1968-84) then Unthank Poticha Waterbury (1985-92), then Unthank Waterbury (1993-98). Unthank's later projects included Vivian Olum Child Development Center. Wilmsen, Endicott, and Unthank were all graduates of the UO College of Design.
Sources:
"Endicott, Charles W.," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 123-24.
"Unthank, DeNorval," Ritz, Richard E. Architects of Oregon; A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased--19th and 20th Centuries.Portland, OR: Lair Hill Publishing, 2003, 400-401.
Wingwall, Alice
Wolff Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects
Wylie, Scott William
Yeon, John
Yost Grube Hall
Zach, Jan
ZGF Architects
Zhao, Suikang
Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Partnership