You are cordially invited to celebrate the life and work of three architects who helped shape the Eugene we know and love today: Grant Seder, DeNorval Unthank Jr., and Otto Poticha, who from 1968-1986 practiced together as Unthank Seder Poticha Architects.
They designed, either individually or collaboratively, many iconic campus buildings: McKenzie Hall, the Clinical Services Building, the Health Services Building, and the Lew Romania dealership "potato chip" building, as well as the Handball and Tennis Courts, which received a national energy award. On top of that, their many years of teaching and reviewing student work left an incalculable impact on the strength of our graduates.
In Eugene at-large, they were single-handedly responsible for creating the 5th Avenue Special Area Zone, which dramatically reshaped civic and commercial life in downtown Eugene. They designed or renovated many buildings in the downtown core and developed successful experiments in dense urban living (High Street Rowhouses, Lincoln Terrace). They designed the Lane County Public Service Building (also the recipient of a national energy award), notable professional services buildings (the Bus Barn, the High Street Office Building, the Forum Building, among others), and the surrounding hills are dotted with their innovative residential structures.
In Portland, they designed the magnet performing arts educational facility, Harriet Tubman Middle School, as well as adapted an aging firehouse into the beloved Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, among other civic and residential projects.
The Albany Public Library, The Local Government Center in Salem, the list goes on! The Willamette Valley is richer for their work...not to mention the coast, the mountains, and the high plains to the east.
We will be gathering together for a night of celebration and stories about some truly incredible practitioners, whose work made Oregon a better place, as well as fundraising to support a permanent home for the Unthank Seder Poticha archive and the publication of a comprehensive monograph of their work.
Please join us.
The Very Little Theatre, Eugene, OR
Doors at 6pm, Event at 7pm
September 17th, 2024
