[2] After World War II, student enrollment in the school ballooned and separate departments for each curricular subject were created.

[2] Renowned Canadian architect Arthur Erickson spent one academic year at UO in the mid-1950s as an assistant professor.

[3] Douglas Shadbolt, a noted Canadian architectural educator, completed his B.Arch degree at UO in 1957.

[8] Students’ work is periodically displayed in the LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall.

It was created from the merger of the Wallace School of Community Service and Public Affairs (CSPA) and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

The new department was located in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts to form PPPM.

The college is primarily housed in Lawrence Hall at the University of Oregon campus, which provides lecture halls, classrooms, studios, the Design Library, a materials resource library, and a computer lab with plotting services.

The LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall displays selected student work.

It also ranked first in the country in the area of "Sustainable Design Practice and Principles," and number 5 for "Analysis and Planning.

The undergraduate program had placed second in the western region behind California Polytechnic State University in the same publication.