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L. Rudolph Barton

L. Rudolph Barton Barton - PDXplore New Industrial Landscape

Professor

Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Harvard University, 1981
Bachelor of Architecture, Tulane University, 1971

Contact: bartonl@pdx.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Current Classes
Arch 481 Architecture Design Studio 5
Arch 4/532 History & Theory of Urban Design

Research
Rudolph Barton is an urban designer and brings to his teaching over 25 years experience in the public, private & academic sectors.  His teaching focuses on design in the public realm and includes studio and seminar courses focusing on the interrelationships amongst people, buildings and infrastructure.  His professional career as an urban designer ranges from working on Portland’s renown Downtown Plan, directing a three-year urban design study of Jerusalem, initiating study-abroad programs in Barcelona, Spain, and serving as a design advisor to local governmental bodies.  His current activities include working as a partner in PDXplore, an urban design partnership formed to 'provoke discourse around the physical and social construction of public space'.