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2023 Class of Fellows, Mauricio Villarreal, Oregon Chapter04-24-24 | Association News
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2023 Class of Fellows, Mauricio Villarreal, Oregon Chapter

PLACE, Portland, OR
by Staff

Oregon Chapter - Category: Works

Mauricio Villarreal's forty-year career is distinguished by design excellence, environmental stewardship, social responsibility, authentic teaching pedagogy, and human-centered placemaking with iconic landscapes worldwide. Mauricio designs high-quality built environments that consume fewer natural resources and respond to historic, cultural, and social conditions. He strives to strengthen community resilience by integrating environmental design to improve livability and quality of life. A founder of PLACE, he is a prolific idea generator and his designs reflect long-term collaborations, mastery of craftsmanship, and a spirit of innovation. His collaborations span the globe, but he has remained grounded in Oregon where he served as the President and Vice President of ASLA Oregon. At Nike, Inc. World Headquarters, Portland, OR, he completed a decade-long transformation of 3.2 million square feet and 65 acres of open space campus expansion with a collection of now iconic landscapes that balance imagination with program and sustainable design. The University of Washington Prairie Line Trail (PLT), Tacoma, WA, is a reinvented landscape and repurposed industrial infrastructure unifying downtown Tacoma, connecting a regional network of trails, serving as a steward of watershed environment, and creating what the campus lacked-a central commons. For the Halprin Open Space Sequence Restoration/Activation, Portland, OR, Mauricio partnered with Portland Parks and Recreation and Halprin Landscape Conservancy to restore and renew the vitality of Halprin's quartet of internationally celebrated midcentury modern interactive fountains, plazas, and connecting pathways.

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