Judith Sheine

Professor
University of Oregon

Judith Sheine is a Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Oregon (UO) and is an ACSA Distinguished Professor. Sheine served as UO Department of Architecture Head 2012-17 and as Professor and Chair of the Architecture Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2002-12. She is the Director of Design for the TallWood Design Institute, a collaboration between UO’s College of Design and Oregon State University’s (OSU) Colleges of Forestry and Engineering focused on advancing engineered timber. Sheine was the UO lead for the EDA Build Back Better Regional Challenge $41.1 million award (2022-27) to the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition (which includes OSU, Port of Portland, Oregon Department of Forestry, Business Oregon, and Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development) and is the PI on the (2023-25) NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing mass timber technologies (OR, WA). Sheine is also an award-winning architect whose projects have been published internationally and she has been recognized as the leading authority on the work of R.M. Schindler; her publications on the architect include R.M. Schindler (Phaidon Press, 2001) and her most recent book, Schindler, Kings Road and Southern California Modernism (University of California Press, 2012), co-authored with Robert Sweeney.