PERSONAL INFORMATION 203 Hawthorne Ave.
Eugene,
OR 97404
(541)
689-1546
Department
of Architecture
1206
Lawrence Hall
University
of Oregon
Eugene,
OR 97401
(541)346-3690
beecher@darkwing.uoregon.edu
EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy degree, American
Studies (ABD)
The
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa,
1992-present
Dissertation: “Out of Sight: Architectures of American Storage” (in-progress)
Master
of Arts degree, American Studies
University
of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1998
Master
of Arts degree, Interior Design
Area
of Specialization: Historic
Preservation
Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa, 1988
Master’s
Thesis: The Influence of the Housing
Reform Movement on Proposed Farmhouse Designs (1900-1930)
Bachelor
of Arts degree with academic honors, Interior Design
Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa, 1986
ACADEMIC Assistant Professor, University of Oregon,
1999-present.
EMPLOYMENT Instructor of upper division interior
architecture studio courses.
Instructor
of history of interior architecture lecture courses.
Instructor
of American Vernacular Interior seminar course.
Instructor of color theory course.
Academic
advisor.
Assistant Professor, Iowa State
University, 1992-1999.
Instructor of history of interiors lecture
courses.
Instructor
of graduate seminars and studios.
Instructor
of interior design studio courses in lower and upper division.
Instructor
of university honors seminars.
Academic
advisor.
Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, August, 1989-May, 1992;
Instructor
of history of interiors lecture courses.
Instructor
of various interior design studio courses in lower and upper division.
Temporary
Instructor, Iowa State University, August 1988-1989;
Instructor
of history of interiors lecture courses.
Instructor
of interior design studio.
Provided
instructional services to Interior Design Resource library.
RELATED WORK Independent
preservation consultant, 1992-1999;
EXPERIENCES Provide
services that promote historic preservation.
Work
includes “Alonzo J. and Flora Barkley House” nomination for National Register
of Historic Places (1994) and analysis of “Seventh Street Viaduct, Fort Dodge,
Iowa” for Tallgrass Historians, Iowa City, Iowa (1994).
Preservation
Consultant, Jennings, Gottfried and Associates, Ames, Iowa, 1988-1992;
Provide
services that promote historic preservation.
Work
includes development of “Planning for Survey” document for Harrison County,
Iowa (1988).
Jan
Jennings and Herbert Gottfried, Ames, Iowa, May 1986-August 1986;
Research
assistant for American Vernacular Interior Architecture (1870-1940).
Iowa
State Office of Historic Preservation, Des Moines, Iowa, May 1985-August 1985;
Intern
conducting research, writing National Register nominations, rehabilitation
evaluation.
PUBLICATIONS “Designing Criticism: The Potential for Written Criticism to
(JURIED) Contribute to Interior Design Education,” Journal
of Interior Design (manuscript in review).
“"Promoting
the ‘Unit Idea:’ Manufactured Kitchen Cabinets, (1900-1950)" APT
Bulletin, 32:2-3(Summer, 2001):
27-37.
“The
Mythical Making Martha,” American Studies, (Summer, 2001): 113-124.
“Integrating History: The History/Theory/Criticism Course,” Journal of Interior Design,
25(1), 1999: 37-44.
“Building
for ‘Mrs. Farmer:’ Published Farmhouse
Designs and the Role of the Rural Female Consumer,” Agricultural History
73(2), 1999: 252-262.
“Rethinking
Chronology: Thematic Options for
History Instruction,” Journal of Interior Design, 24(2), 1998: 4-11
“The
Language of Beauty and the Modern Interior:
An Approach to Aesthetic Criticism,” Journal of Interior Design,
23(1), 1997: 61-69.
“Negotiating
the History Frontier: Perceptions of
History in Interior Design Education,” Proceedings, Interior Design
Educator’s Council International Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 20-24,
1996.
“Discovering
Women: Integrating Gender Issues into
Historical Design Research,” Proceedings, Interior Design Educator’s Council
International Conference, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, March 31-April 3, 1993.
“The Motel in Builder’s Literature and
Architectural Publications: An Analysis
of Design,” chapter in Roadside America:
The Automobile in Design and Culture, (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1990): 115-124.
“The
Interior Systems of Colonial and Dutch Colonial Cottages (1905-1939), as
Evidenced by Historic Builder’s Journals and Ten Extant Examples,” Proceedings,
Interior Design Educators International Conference, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, 1988.
PUBLICATIONS “The
Built Environment of Farming:
Architecture and the
(INVITED) Farm
House, Barns,” Encyclopedia of the Midwest, (Columbus, Ohio: The Institute for Collaborative Research and
Public Humanities, 2002): forth-coming.
“Deconstructing Martha,” Oregon Quarterly,
79:3(Spring,
2000):
12-13.
“Commercial
Archeology,” The Oxford Companion to Archeology, (New York: The Oxford University Press, 1996).
“Autos
and Highways: Conquering Space in
Iowa,” Mark P. Leone and Neil Asher Silberman, ed., Invisible America: Unearthing Our Hidden History, (New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995).
Robbie Blakemore: History of Interior Design & Furniture, in Journal of Interior Design,
25(1), 1999: 60.
David Gebhard: The National Trust Guide to Art Deco in
America, in Journal of
Interior Design, 23(2), 1997: 54.
“Secondhand
Windows and Hand-Me-Down Doors:
American Architectural Salvage and Some Issues of Identity,” AMERICAN
STUDIES ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL MEETING, Detroit, Michigan, October, 2000.
“Hand
Made and Home Grown: The Phenomenology
of Martha Stewart,” AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL MEETING,
Montreal, Quebec, October 28-31, 1999.
“The Shortest Distance Between Two Points: Two-way Interactive Video Conferencing as a Tool for Recruitment,” INTERIOR DESIGN EDUCATORS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Clearwater Beach, Florida, April 14-17, 1999.
With
Amy Mikovec, Assistant Professor and Clayton Cartland, Graduate Student.
“‘Tomorrow
You Can Live Like This:’ The Magazine
and Design Reform During World War II,”
AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE, San Diego, California,
March 31-April 3, 1999.
“Us
and Them: Redefining the History of
Interiors in a Multicultural Context,” INTERIOR DESIGN EDUCATORS COUNCIL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, New York, New York, March 31-April 3, 1998.
“Building
for “Mrs. Farmer:” Published Farmhouse
Designs and the Role of the Rural Female Consumer (1900-1930)” AMERICAN FARM
AND RURAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, September 18-21,
1997.
“‘Good
Things:’ The Roles of Nostalgia and
Ritual in Martha Stewart’s Style of Living,”
THE STYLE CONFERENCE, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green,
Ohio, July 25-28, 1997.
“Picturing
Paranoia: A Comparative Analysis of
Edwin Howland Blashfield’s Frontier Murals in Iowa and South Dakota,” SOCIETY
FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF SOCIAL IMAGERY NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, March 13-15, 1997.
“Marketing
the Modern American Interior: An
Aesthetic Analysis of the Post-War Ranch House,” AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL MEETING, Kansas City, Missouri, October 31-November 3, 1996.
“The
History/Theory/Criticism Course:
Bringing Breadth to History in Studio Education,” OBJECT-CONTEXT-DESIGN: THE STATE OF TEACHING INTERIOR DESIGN
HISTORY, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 12, 1996.
“Assessing
the Influence of Housing Reform: The
Design of Farmhouse Interiors (1900-1930),” VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM
ANNUAL MEETING, Lawrence, Kansas, June 6-9, 1996.
“Negotiating
the History Frontier: Perceptions of
History in Interior Design Education,” INTERIOR DESIGN EDUCATORS COUNCIL
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Denver, Colorado, March 20-24, 1996.
“Built
Around a Mother: The Role(s) of Women
in Everyman’s House,” WOMEN AND SOCIETY CONFERENCE, Marist College,
Poughkeepsie, New York, June 9-11, 1995.
“Defining
Interior Design Through an Inclusive Historical Perspective,” CROSSING
BOUNDARIES IN PRACTICE CONFERENCE, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14-17, 1993.
“Discovering
Women: Integrating Gender Issues into
Historical Design Research,” INTERIOR DESIGN EDUCATORS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, March 31-April 3, 1993.
“Harmony
and Contradiction: Communication
Technology as Applied within Diverse Cultures,” THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 21, 1993.
With
Professor Wei Dong, Iowa State University.
“Rural
Housing Reform in the Early Twentieth Century,” SOUTHEAST SOCIETY OF
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, Mississippi State University, October, 1991.
“Roadside
Development Along the Lincoln Highway in Central Iowa,” CONGRESS OF HISTORICAL
ORGANIZATIONS, Des Moines, Iowa, June 10, 1991.
“Selling
to Women: Early Service Stations and
the Female Consumer,” HIGHWAYS TO HISTORY:
THE AUTOMOBILE AGE CONFERENCE FOR THE SOCIETY FOR COMMERCIAL ARCHEOLOGY,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1990.
“Changes
in Perception: The Late 1920’s
Remodeling Boom as Presented by Popular Serials,” BUILT FORM AND CULTURE
CONFERENCE, Tempe, Arizona, November 11, 1989.
“Tourists
and the Automobile: From Cabin Camp to
Motel (1930-1955),” AMERICANS AND THE AUTOMOBILE CONFERENCE, THE SOCIETY FOR
COMMERCIAL ARCHEOLOGY AND THE HENRY FORD MUSEUM, Dearborn, Michigan, November
5, 1988.
“The
Interior Systems of Colonial and Dutch Colonial Cottages (1905-1939), as
Evidenced by Historic Builder’s Journals and Ten Extant Examples,” INTERIOR
DESIGN EDUCATOR’S INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 22,
1988.
(JURIED) ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGIONS OF THE AMERICAN
STUDIES
ASSOCIATION,
Fort Collins, Colorado, April 7-9, 1995.
“Creating “Westward:” Edwin Howland Blashfield and the Iowa
Capitol Improvement Commission,” THE
MIDWEST ART HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, St. Louis, Missouri, March
23-25, 1995.
“Range,
Range in the Home: Spatial Perceptions
of the West and the Design of the Post-World War II Ranch House,” THE TENTH
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MID-AMERICA AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, Lawrence,
Kansas, April 8-10, 1994.
INVITED LECTURES “Rx Design,” (keynote address),
AND
PRESENTATIONS DESIGNING DOMESTICITY: DECORATING THE AMERICAN HOME SINCE 1876,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, March 16, 2002.
“Dovetailing,” Interior Architecture
Lecture Series
University
of North Carolina, Greensboro, Oct. 12, 2001
“Writing Design Criticism,” Journal of
Interior Design
Workshop,
IDEC International Conference, March, 2001.
With Jan Jennings, Associate Professor, Cornell University.
“Writing Design Criticism,” Journal of
Interior Design
Workshop,
IDEC International Conference, March, 2000.
With Jan Jennings, Associate Professor, Cornell University.
“Furniture and Meaning,” public lecture
for the Big Brain Cafe’
series, Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, October, 1998.
“Comparing Historiographies: Listening to the Past,
Directions
for the Future,” (keynote address) OBJECT-CONTEXT-DESIGN: THE STATE OF TEACHING INTERIOR DESIGN HISTORY,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 12, 1996.
“Assessing
Preservation along Iowa’s Lincoln Highway,”
Second Annual Meeting of the National Lincoln Highway Association, Ames,
Iowa, August, 1994.
“The Lincoln Highway in Boone County and
Central Iowa,” Boone County Historical
Society, Boone, Iowa, July 17, 1991.
“Aesthetics
of American Vernacular Architecture 1870-1940”
Preservation in Progress Workshop, Ames, Iowa, October 29, 1988, with
Jan Jennings.
“The
Interior Elements of Colonial Cottages,” Farmhouse Museum, Iowa State
University, September, 1986.
SEMINARS, PANELS “Historic
Place with a Feminine Face,” IOWA HERITAGE
AND POSTERS EXPO,
Des Moines, Iowa, June, 1995.
With
Rebecca Conard, Wichita State University
Jan Nash, Tallgrass Historians, L.C.
Mary Bennett, State Historical
Society of Iowa
Karen Mason, curator of Iowa Women’s
Archives
“Changing
Dynamics in the Creative Learning Experience,” THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 23, 1993.
With
Professor Wei Dong, Iowa State University.
COMPETITIONS AND “Hamballs
for 50,” (reclaimed pine, printed cotton)
EXHIBITIONS With essay in Jamie Horwitz and Paulette
Singley, ed. Architecture a la
carte: Parallels between the
Preparation of Meals and the Production of Space. (in production, invited
submission).
Interior
Design Educator’s Council Juried Design
Competition, March, 2002, “Hamballs for 50”
BEST OF SHOW Award
Interior
Design Educator’s Council Juried Design Competition, March, 2002, “Elastic Wine
Cabinet” HONORABLE MENTION Award
Interior
Design Educator’s Council Juried Design Competition, March, 2002, “Memory
Boxes”
Interior
Design Educator’s Council Juried Design Competition, March, 1999, Work Table
Series: BEST OF SHOW Award
College of Design Faculty Exhibition,
August-October,
1998: Work Table Series (Invited submission)
“Glass Ceiling:” work table (cherry, graphite, glass, plexiglass)
“925-529:” work table (cherry, rubber)
“Affirmative Action:” (cherry, cotton)
College
of Design Faculty Show, January-March, 1996 (Invited submissions)
“Crossings #1:” mixed media assemblage
“Kindred:” mixed media assemblage
“A
Land of Counterpane,” for SHEET, an interdisciplinary exhibition of works by
women, April 23-May 5, 1995. (Invited submission)
“Crossings
#1” for an exhibition of works by women faculty of the College of Design, Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa, June-July, 1994. (Invited submission)
COMPETITIONS AND Innovations
in Housing, February, 1992.
EXHIBITIONS (cont.)
“East Meets West,” Central Glass
International Architectural
Design
Competition, July, 1991, with Wei Dong, Assistant Professor, Iowa State
University.
“End
Table,” Iowa College Salon IX, March-April, 1987.
COMMISSIONS “Lintel
Reception Table” and “Lintel Side tables” Martin K. Jiscke Honors Building,
Iowa State University, Spring, 2002.
CONFERENCES “Earth-Wise
Design,” IIDA (Washington State chapter) ATTENDED January, 2002.
Iowa Heritage Expo
Des Moines, Iowa, June, 1994
Congress
of Historical Organizations.
Des
Moines, Iowa, June, 1992
Vernacular
Architecture Forum, national conference.
Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, May 6-10, 1992.
Louis
Sullivan and the Architecture of Democracy.
Grinnell
College, Grinnell, Iowa, April 20-22, 1989.
National
Register Training Conference.
Bureau
of Historic Preservation, Des Moines, Iowa, January 28, 1988.
The
Midwestern Farmstead of 1900.
University
of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 30-31, 1986.
PROFESSIONAL Stanley
B. Greenfield and Faculty Grant Award adding
HONORS/ACTIVITIES specially
requested historical books to Knight Library
University Honors Program Excellence in
Mentoring/Advising
Award, 1999
Recipient of Faculty Award for
Extraordinary Performance,
College
of Design, April, 1997
Nominee
for VEISHEA Professor of the Year Award, April, 1997
Recipient
of the Carol Price-Shanis Award, Interior Design Educator’s Council, March,
1994 (A national award for professional betterment through continuing
education)
University
Research Award, Iowa State University, for master’s thesis, 1988
GRANTS Summer
Research Award, 2002,
$4500
University
of Oregon
New
Faculty Summer Research Grant,
2000, $4000
University of Oregon
IDRO Research Grant, Spring, 1999, $150
College of Design, Iowa State University
Honors Faculty Professional Development
Grant, 1998, $500
Iowa
State University
Instructional Development
Grant, 1998, $740
Iowa
State University
Honors
Faculty Professional Development Grant,
1997, $500
Iowa State University
Creative Scholarship Grant, 1996, $1000
Art
and Design Department, Iowa State University
IDRO Research Grant, Spring, 1996, $150
College
of Design, Iowa State University
Metro Waste Authority Grant
Program, Spring, 1995,
$2,620
with
Assistant Professor Mira Engler
PROFESSIONAL Interior
Design Educators Council (IDEC), corporate
ORGANIZATIONS member.
American
Studies Association (ASA), member.
Vernacular
Architecture Forum (VAF), member.
Beaver
State Woodturners’ Association, member
UNIVERSITY, PROFESSIONAL, Departmental committees:
AND SPECIAL SERVICE Admissions (2001-2002)
Curriculum (1999-2001)
Graduate
Studies (2000-2001)
School
committees:
John
Yeon (1999-2002)
Historic
Preservation (2000-2000)
Historic
Preservation Director Search (2001-2002)
JID (Journal of Interior Design) Board of Directors
(2002-
2005)
JID (Journal of Interior Design) Editorial
Review Board (2000-2002)
Manuscript
reviewer, Fairchild Publishers, Inc. (2000-present)
Manuscript
reviewer, Prentice Hall (1999-present)
Gordon
House Furniture and Furnishings committee,
Oregon
Garden (2001-2002)
Sheldon
McMurphey Johnson House, Eugene, Oregon consultatant
(2000-present)
SMART
Reader volunteer, Patterson School, Eugene, Oregon (2002-present)