05/14/2026
Architecture lecture (in person and via Zoom)
Friday, May 15th - 5:30 PM PST
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92817888580
All Bark, No XPS with Andrew Linn, BLDUS
Bark clads every tree in the world. Mother Nature designed her preferred bio-based siding material to durably insulate and shed water. Although it had been used as shelter on the North American continent for millennia, only a tiny fraction of today's wood houses are protected by bark. Architects and builders are rediscovering the most natural way possible to protect architecture.
Andrew Linn is a principal and founder of BLDUS, an architecture practice based in the District of Columbia that is imagining a new American vernacular. Alongside his work with BLDUS, Andrew conducts material and urban research from his position as Visiting Professor of Practice at Virginia Tech. His work with BLDUS has been honored with an Architectural League of NY Emerging Voices Award, an Architectural Record Vanguard Award, an Architectural Review Emerging Shortlist, and an AN 40 Under 40, among others. Andrew has organized and led healthy material workshops, exhibits, and talks, and has traveled extensively, following natural building materials to their origins in the Earth.