The Van Evera Bailey Fellowship

The Van Evera Bailey Fellowship supports the professional development of mid-career architects and encourages greater contributions to their profession and their community. The Fellowship was inaugurated in 2001 as a collaborative project of The Oregon Community Foundation and the Architectural Foundation of Oregon. It is supported by the Van Evera and Janet M. Bailey Fund, established at The Oregon Community Foundation in 1982 by a generous charitable gift from the Baileys.

2007 Fellowship Winner: Mark Perepelitza, Portland

The 2007 Fellowship supports the study of innovative window systems for Northwest architecture. Perepelitza’s project investigates how to create openness, provide weather protection, and create a comfortable interior without significant energy loss. Building on a literature review, interviews, and site visits to energy-efficient buildings in Northern Europe with climates similar to Oregon, Perepelitza will identify window configurations, analyze prototype assemblies, and share conclusions in a printed report, web site, and conference presentations.

2006 Fellowship Winner: Jean von Bargen, Portland

Von Bargen’s interests focus on the design and implementation of major urban infrastructure projects. Her fellowship involves research and comparison of public infrastructure development and its public interface in Portland and Barcelona. The latter city’s preparation for the 1992 Olympics, including public infrastructure in transportation, satellite sewer systems, and a telecommunication tower designed by Santiago Calatrava made it an international leader in re-visioning urban growth and investment. She will share her findings through on-line reports, presentations to the professional community and public agencies, and articles.

2005 Fellowship Winner: Becca Cavell, Portland

The Fellowship supports Cavell’s work on a field guide—complemented by an interactive Web site—to the important residential work of a group of architects working in Oregon during the mid-20th century, including Pietro Belluschi, John Yeon, Walter Gordon, John Storrs, and Van Evera Bailey himself. Her work will document the architecture and if possible record the original landscape designs for the homes. When complete, it will help interested people conduct self-guided tours, as well as serve academic inquiry.

2005 Fellowship Winner: Paul McKean, Portland

McKean’s project is taking him to several countries to study pre-fab construction systems, sustainable technologies, and the feasibility of using them to provide higher quality low-income housing. Based on his research, he plans to prepare a feasibility report for Habitat for Humanity and hopes to present findings at the AIA design conference in 2006. He is aiming toward inclusion in the report of a conceptual design for a Habitat prototype unit.

2004 Fellowship Winner: Richard Browning, Portland

The Bailey Fellowship supported Browning’s investigation into Japanese urban streetscape design, focusing on the pedestrian zone from the curb up to and including the building façade. As Portland and other cities reshape the ways that pedestrians and vehicles flow and commercial and public spaces interact, the “shared streetscapes” of the Japanese noren-gai, or shop district, may offer a vital contribution to Northwest urban design. The research will be distilled into an illustrated monograph.

2003 Fellowship Winner: Bonnie Bayard, Medford

Bayard’s interest is in design of buildings and landscapes to anticipate the pressure on water supplies caused by the Northwest’s increasing population and climate changes. The Fellowship allowed her to investigate agricultural, natural systems, and landscape models, and to apply her research through test sites for conservation-based residential landscape design, working with organizational partners such as the Oregon State University Master Gardeners and the OSU Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center.

2002 Fellowship Winner: Suzanne Zuniga, Portland

The Bailey Fellowship supported Zuniga’s research and writing of a master residential “green” building specification. Zuniga’s project provided specifications, cost data, and local suppliers for alternative systems and materials that are considered to be more sustainable than those commonly used. It promotes the growing “green” architecture movement in the Northwest, allowing architects more readily to implement sustainable residential building practices. The results were intended to be disseminated in both print and electronic (Web site) formats, and updated annually.

2001 Fellowship Winner: John Cava, Portland

The inaugural Bailey Fellowship supported Cava’s research and writing of a monograph on the houses and gardens of noted Portland architect John Yeon. The project is intended to produce the first book focused on Yeon, well known for his role in defining the “Northwest Regional Style,” exemplified in the widely recognized Watzek House located on Skyline Drive in Portland. The book is to include drawings, photographs, theoretical essays, and analyses of the architecture of Yeon’s houses.