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Renowned architect and professor Dan Rockhill to speak in Portland

Kansas-based leader in regional architecture will discuss the design-build process

PORTLAND, Ore. -- (Oct. 25, 2007) -- Dan Rockhill, an award-winning proponent of regional and sustainable architecture, will present "Design and Construction: Hand and Mind, The Work of Rockhill and Associates and Studio 804," during a free public lecture in Portland.

The lecture is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8, in the Ecotrust Conference Center, second floor, Billy Frank Conference Center, Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, 721 N.W. Ninth Ave. The Ecotrust building is located in the Pearl District on N.W. 10th Avenue and Irving Street.

The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts is sponsoring the talk as part of the John Yeon Lectures. Rockhill will also speak in Eugene the preceding evening.

Rockhill leads the firm Rockhill and Associates, based in Lecompton, Kan., which is known for elegant modern structures that respond to the Kansas landscape and vernacular traditions. Described as modest yet idiosyncratic, the firm builds its own designs and also restores notable regional buildings.

Rockhill was recently promoted to J. L. Constant Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Kansas. He also directs the university's graduate building studio, Studio 804, which focuses on local affordable housing.

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards named Rockhill a finalist in architecture in 2007. The prestigious awards are administered by the Smithsonian Institute's National Design Museum to acknowledge an individual's or firm's body of work. Recent awards for Rockhill's work include Residential Architect magazine's 2006 Firm of the Year Award and Architecture magazine's 2006 "Home of the Year Award."

The annual Yeon Lecture was established in 2002 to honor the memory and legacy of the late Oregon designer John Yeon. Talks in the series focus on one of the three major interests that Yeon pursued throughout his career -- architecture, landscape design and preservation and the decorative arts.

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Contact: Julie Brown, UO director of media relations, 541-346-3185, julbrown@uoregon.edu

Link: John Yeon Lecture Series, http://aaa.uoregon.edu/news/yeon/

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