Meet the Speaker: Jim (James) Tice

Jim (James) Tice is an architect, scholar and co-editor of The Legacy of Colin Rowe. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Oregon. Tice came to the University of Oregon in 1991 as the Willard K. Martin Visiting Professor and joined the faculty in 1992. He was previously an associate professor at Columbia University. He has led summer programs in Rome for architecture programs including Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, and the University of Oregon. He has also taught in Rome as academic director for the University of Notre Dame, and in Siena, Italy, as faculty director for the Northwest Council on Study Abroad. Tice has been invited to universities throughout the United States and Europe as a guest lecturer and critic and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, Cornell University, Ohio State University, and an International Program on Solar Architecture in Urbino, Italy. He also held posts at the University of Southern California and at Ohio University. Tice serves on the board of advisors for the Frank Lloyd Wright Gordon House Conservancy in Silverton, Oregon.

Tice is the recipient of a citation of merit from the AIA Architectural Education Initiative for his 1987 publication, Principles of Architectural Design, completed as an associate professor at Columbia University. He has also collaborated with Paul Laseau to explore Wright’s work from a typological point of view in Frank Lloyd Wright: Between Principle and Form (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992). His scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Architectural Education, Metamorfosi, Architectural Design, Casabella,and Dimensions (University of Michigan).

Tice worked in the offices of Richard Meier and Partners, Studio Seven, and Whiting Associates in Rome before founding Coastal Architects in Eugene with Virginia Cartwright. He served as urban design consultant for the Federal Courthouse District in Eugene and designer for the Festival Gate in Junction City, Oregon. Tice has led and collaborated on award-winning competition entries appearing in publications including Progressive Architecture, LA Architect, Japan Architect, and Vacant Lots (Princeton Architectural Press). He also created a traveling exhibit, “On Common Ground: Four Housing Projects by James Tice,” recognized by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture for design excellence in promoting architecture and research as a reflective discipline. His work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design and selected drawings are part of the permanent collection in the Avery Centennial Drawings Archive at Columbia University.