River Road Cohousing Project Contributors

 

Architectural Design Students

 

   

 

Erik R. Bishoff,  Graduate student

 

Erik, Known as "Bish", was born in Chicago Illinois but moved to Eugene with his family as a small child and lived in Eugene until he graduated South Eugene High School around the time that Nirvana was just becoming popular. Shortly after graduation Bish moved to Ashland Oregon to attend college and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology. Bish liked Ashland and chose to stay there where he began working as a bartender and graphic designer during the late 90's. It was some 11 years later that Bish met his wife and moved back to Eugene after she was accepted into the U of O Law program. While in Eugene, Bish received his second Bachelor degree in Photography with a minor in Architecture History. Grad school soon followed and Bish is now in his 2nd year.  During his small amount of free time Bish enjoys playing with his two year old son, Hollander, and his Chocolate Lab.

 

 

 

Matthew Crawford

Matt was born in Molalla, Oregon and came to the University of Oregon to study architecture.  He is an undergraduate and currently in his third year in the architecture program.  Both of his parents graduated from UofO and his younger brother currently attends UofO as well.  In Molalla, Matt worked in the forestry industry fighting fires.  His interests include snowboarding, which he has been doing for six years, drawing, and painting landscapes with watercolors.  Next term he will be studying abroad in Macerata, Italy.

 

 

 

 

 

Kristen Davis

 

Kristen was born in Ashland, Oregon. She has two brothers, one older who just finished college and is currently working for her parents in a plumbing company they own, and a younger one that is starting his freshman year in the studies of environmental science. While she was in the fourth grade she discovered an interest in architecture, which has brought her to the University of Oregon as a third year student in the architecture program. Kristen's interests other than architecture consist of listening to a variety of music, watching most movies except Syriana (she hated it!), hiking, oil painting, and running on the beach. Interesting info: Kristen has one foot that is larger than the other due to an injury.

 

 

Rose Formosa

 

Rose grew up in Cottage Grove as the youngest of 10. She came to the University of Oregon because of the architecture program, and its proximity to her family. She is now in her 4th year of the program. Rose looks to the architect Gaudi for inspiration. She enjoys playing water polo and swimming when she gets the chance. Rose's favorite cookie is the chocolate pillow cookie, a gooey delight found at Market of Choice where she used to work. After college Rose hopes to travel extensively before beginning work, although she may end up practicing architecture in Italy.

 

 

Allyson Foster

 

Allyson is a 3rd-year undergraduate who hails from Oregon's own Klamath Falls.  Her interest in architecture is long-lived and began while attending open houses with her father.  Allyson was later counselled to consider architecture as a field of study to match her interest in mathematics, science, and art.  After her first complete year at UO, Allyson was hooked and looks forward to a successful and challenging career.  When enjoying the infrequent free time from her studies, Allyson enjoys working at Starbucks, eating at the Ring of Fire restaurant, and watching movies (other than the gory ones).

 

 

Erin Kirkpatrick

 

Erin was born and raised in Oregon in the Portland metropolitan area where she attended an all girls primary school until she moved to Eugene to attend the University of Oregon. She is currently a third year undergraduate studying architecture with a minor in business. In addition to her university studies, Erin works as an employee for Home Depot. Her interests outside of work and school include softball, exercise, bike riding, reading books, and being crafty. She lives off campus with her 90-pound Labrador retriever named Ellie. Upcoming plans for Erin include participating in the architecture study abroad program in Macerata, Italy during the spring of 2007. After her return, she plans on finishing her degree at the U of O’s Portland campus. She hopes to work in city planning after graduation.

 

 

 

Lauren Mack

 

Lauren grew up in Whidbey Island, Washington from sixth grade until the she graduated high school. She was born in Seattle and also lived in Corvallis at one point. She is a third year architecture undergrad at the UO. She loves to dance and enjoys doing "crafty things." Lauren also knows Portuguese as a result of being a foreign exchange student her junior year of high school. Her favorite cookie is a soft ginger snap that her family makes.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carolina Mondragon-Gomez

 

Carolina is a third year ungraduate at the U of O. She grew up in the small town of The Dalles, Oregon, located in the Columbia Gorge. But, is originally from Mexico. Carolina was raised in a bilingual family and knows how to speak Spanish fluently. She is currently working on also obtaining her minor in Spanish in hope to work internationally as an architect all over Latin America and parts of Europe. Her interest in architecture began at a young age when she wanted to design her future home and grew when her cousin began studying architecture. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing board games, volleyball, tennis and ultimate frisbee, as well as watching movies, drawing, photography, and of course studying architecture at the U of O.

 

 

 

Martina Oxoby, Graduate Student

 

Martina received her undergraduate degree in psychology at Gonzaga University before choosing the University of Oregon to pursue graduate studies in Architecture.  She grew up in the small town of Gardnerville, Nevada.  She loved living on the edge of the Siera Mountain range, just minutes from the California border.  She remembers the large mountains being beautiful and pristine.  They were a gorgeous natural element that seemed to seperate her comfortable little town from the chaos of bigger cities.  As she grew older, Martina realized that her community was changing and ironically it was the same mountains that once seperated her town, that now attracted newcomers and chain business development.  This experience has opened her eyes to the importance of community and teamwork in order to sustain small town roots and prevent unwanted sprawl.

 

 

Erin Pearce

 

Erin grew up in Beaverton, Oregon just a few blocks away from the Tea family restaurant, China Bay. She enjoys baking, especialy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. One of her favorite hobbies is bunjy jumping, which she's done over 10 times in Washington wich is one of the deepest places to jump in the world. Erin goes to Las Vegas every year with her family but has never gambled! She goes for soccer tournaments and to just have fun. She is the second generation University of Oregon student as her father graduated with an accounting degree.

 

 

 

 

Kaelee Pearson

 

Kaelee was born in Lodi California where she lived until the age of five when her family moved to Scio Oregon.  Kaylee attended  school in Scio until shortly after graduating High School when she moved to Corvallis Oregon and started taking classes at  Linn-Benton Community College.   Kaelee is now finishing up her last year at the Eugene campus and  plans to spend her last year studying at UO's Portland campus where she will continue to focus  on Urban Planning and Urban Design.  When Kaelee isn't working at school she is working at the Home Depot  to help support herself  as she attends college.  When Kaelee isn't working she enjoys taking road trips and visiting the oregon coast and mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Roll,  Graduate Student

 

 

Dan grew up in the deserts of south-eastern Arizona. He attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he received his undergraduate degree in Animal Science.  After graduation, he joined the Peace Corps and lived and worked in Ecuador for two years focusing on animal production and community development.  After finishing his service in the Peace Corps, he traveled and worked with various volunteer projects in the Brazilian Amazon. With this experience, he decided to pursue a degree in archictecture with the intention of focusing on community development and low income housing. Last year he studied abroad in Macerata, and plans to do some more traveling and living abroad after he graduates.

 

 

        

 

Brent Stuntzner, Graduate Student 

 

 

Brent is an option three graduate student.  He received his undergraduate degree in liberal arts and has been working as a residential carpenter for 17 years.  Brent is originally from Iowa, but has lived in Oregon for the past 18 years.  He has lived in the Bay Area and Phoenix (where he studied the art and craft of electric and acoustic guitar construction), and as far away as McMurdo Station in the Antarctic (a mere 700 miles from the South Pole), but says Oregon is the best place to live.  Brent is married and has two cats.  For fun, he enjoys playing music and going to the movies with his wife.  He is a Scorpio.

 

 

Tuấn Vũ

 

 

Tuấn is from Hà Nộ̣i, Việt Nam. He has been living and studying in the states for the last four years. During summer he often goes back to Việt Nam to visit his family, his friends and to travel.  After graduating, his dream job is to aqquire an architecture job that enables him to work internationally between Viet Nam and the US.  Tuan's ambition is to use the knowledge he has learned at UofO to maintain the cultural legacy of his own country's architecture.

 

 

 

Donny Udell

 

Donny is a native Oregonian and is from the small coastal town of Cannon Beach.  He returns home every summer but doesn't plan on returning permanently unless of course for the possibility of raising a family there someday.  His fondest memory of the community of Cannon Beach is the isolated neighborhood he grew up in.  The neighborhood was surrounded by natural forest land where he and his friends would frequently play.  He believes it was the informal natural environment that the coastal land had to offer that attracted many kids to the forest.  It is this memory that has influenced the way he feels about the importance of preserving natural land for others to create wonderful memories. 

 

 

 

Frank Tea

 

Frank was born and raised in the lovely city of Portland, Oregon.  He lived there with his younger sister and parents who own a Chinese Restaurant.  Frank discovered his love of architecture while in elementary school and continues to pursue his dream of becoming an architect as a third year architecture student. He also works for an architectural firm in his hometown of Portland. Recently, Frank participated in a study abroad program in Denmark. While abroad, he was exposed to a community that functioned independently from the rest of the city and had many similarities to the idea of Cohousing. Outside of school, Frank enjoys listening to some energetic dance beats and can't resist a nice sappy movie.

 

Organizer

 

 

Nancy Cheng

 

Nancy has been teaching architectural design studios and media classes at UO since 1996.  She studies how tools, methods and teams shape the design process. Nancy grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, the third daughter of Chinese immigrants who came to the U.S. as students.  She lived in New England from 1978-1993, going to college at Yale, working in Boston architectural firms and then getting a graduate degree at Harvard.  (Her father had found going to Tsinghua University in Beijing from a small city to be a pivotal experience, so he pushed his kids to study hard and the family scrimped to save for tuition.)  On a lark she applied to teach at the University of Hong Kong and has enjoyed the chance to be in school again.  Nancy enjoys traveling to conferences, reading novels and bicycling.   More info is on her old website. 

 

Community Contributors

Robert Bolman, Maitreya Ecovillage

Melanie Rios, Maitreya Ecovillage

Miaya Sustaita, site owner

Loren Schein, site owner

Chad Kirkpatrick, Rowell Brokaw Architects

 

Paula Gilmour, M.L.A. cohousing study, Bellingham member

Jan Fillinger, architect

Bill Zeman, innovation & invention champion

Larry Gunn, ecological economist

Bill Church, Sunlight Homes architect

George Stone, Cascadia Commons

Charles Maclean, Trillium Hollow & Philanthropy NOw

 

 

 

 

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