Mulholland named Baker visiting
chair at the University of Oregon

Jill Mulholland, an expert in architectural lighting who lectures for the Texas A&M College of Architecture, was recently named the Frederick Charles Baker Distinguished Visiting Chair in Light and Design at the University of Oregon.

The chair, a position of merit, brings distinguished faculty to the University of Oregon or recognizes the work of current UO professors in the field of lighting design.

Mulholland’s scholarly work deals with light and its manifestations in architecture, art, history, interiors, theatre, prose and nature. She holds a doctorate in architecture from Texas A&M, a Master in Interior Architecture degree from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from Rutgers College.

Mulholland's students have lit up the college with spectacular end-of-semester light displays, using light as a medium to solicit emotion. Installations have utilized fire, water and choreographed dance.

The Baker Fund was established by an endowment to the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at UO in 1986 as a memorial to Frederick Charles Baker (1887-1981), a distinguished designer and manufacturer of lighting fixtures.

UO’s Baker Lighting Laboratory provides students and faculty with tools to inform design decisions on a wide array of topics including site and solar analysis, lighting, energy monitoring and materials research.

- Posted: Sept. 24, 2010 -

Contact:   Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.