Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

This undergraduate study in Landscape Architecture from 1975 to 1983 at University of Oregon was an introduction to the profession of designing with nature ... creating ecologically vital places that only a living palette can deliver.

As an interdisciplinary program, it raised an awareness of emerging global environmental issues, the arts of many different cultures, and a skill of thinking conceptually at many scales, e.g. from the design for a small courtyard to the land use plan for a region.

It fed a desire to build places that grew out of the ground and into the light - places that responded to their environment, changed with the seasons, restored rather than extinguished the senses, and gave life to future generations.

Unpublished works:

  • 1981 - URP 527 - Urban Planning | Environmental Analysis
  • 1981 - LA 489 - Site Planning and Design | Alton Baker Aquatic Center
  • 1980 - LA 489 - Site Planning and Design | U of O Riverfront
  • 1980 - LA 410 - Introduction to Land Planning Analysis | Willakenzie Area Study

LA 506 - Comprehensive Project

A comprehensive landscape architecture studio project for a 40-acre watershed near Crow, Oregon, developed around a family's wish for an earth-sheltered home.

June 01, 1983

4 min read

LA 506 - Comprehensive Project Prep

A regional land-use planning studio for a 100-square-mile area in the Cascade Mountains east of Salem, Oregon.

April 01, 1982

2 min read

LA 260 - Understanding Landscapes

Illustrations reflecting on a three-week trip through parts of Egypt with my father from a Landscape Architecture course.

January 19, 1982

2 min read

LA 489 - Site Planning and Design

A site-planning studio project focused on revitalizing a central Eugene, Oregon, neighborhood.

May 25, 1981

2 min read

LA 366 - Site Construction

A site-construction process diagram illustrating the Springfield sewage treatment plant.

February 11, 1981

1 min read

LA 366 - Site Construction

A written procedure for repairing a hillside and preventing water erosion, based on the Jensch Landscape project and developed through Landscape Architecture coursework.

February 11, 1981

1 min read

LA 366 - Site Construction

Illustration for a Landscape Architecture course assignment showing how to make a stained-glass window.

January 10, 1981

1 min read

LA 511 - Land Planning Analysis

A rural-development analysis and planning proposal for the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan region.

June 01, 1980

2 min read

LA 389 - Landscape Architecture Design

A landscape architecture studio project for the economic development of Bohemia Bolon Island in Reedsport, Oregon, owned by the Bohemia Lumber Company.

September 05, 1979

1 min read

LA 389 - Landscape Architecture Design

A landscape architecture studio focused on assessing and deriving design patterns for Mount Pisgah, a south Willamette Valley butte.

April 11, 1979

2 min read

LA 459 - Site Development II

A site-grading course focused on engineering contours for drainage slopes, catchments, buildings, roadways, and parking lots through balanced cut and fill.

April 01, 1979

1 min read

LA 289 - Landscape Architecture Design

A clay totem created in an early landscape architecture design studio, using sculpture to store and recall memories of a one-week solo trip through Central Oregon.

July 05, 1978

1 min read

LA 408 - Irrigation Workshop

A landscape architecture course on designing irrigation systems, including pipes, heads, automatic valves, vacuum breakers, water meters, stop-and-waste valves, and drains.

April 04, 1978

1 min read

ARCH 333 - Introduction to Architectural Media

Pencil sketches from Architectural media course.

February 02, 1978

1 min read

ART 291 - Drawing

Sketches from a live model drawing Art studio, trying to channel the spirit of da Vinci with a somewhat fuzzy connection.

March 30, 1977

2 min read

ARCH 400 - Fundamentals of Drafting

Plans and details of Frank Lloyd Wright's Hull House as part of a learn-by-doing exercise from an Architectural drafting course.

January 05, 1977

1 min read