Wendy McClure
Research/Focus Areas
  • Community Design and Planning
  • Urban and Town Morphology with emphasis on railroad and mining town development in the intermountain west
  • Sustainable Development
  • Architectural Design
  • Historic Preservation and Downtown Revitalization Participatory Design
  • Member Editorial Board of Journal Urban Morphology (2005-present)
  • Sustainable/Regenerative Development
  • Smart Growth - Consultant for intermountain communities and non-profits
  • Former chair and Board Member Idaho Historic Sites Review Board 1995-2006, member Moscow Historic Preservation Commission (2009-12), member 1912 Building Use Committee( 2008-present)
  • Workshops in intermountain communities area and National “Your Town Workshop” series
Academic Programs
My Courses
  • Arch 453: Architectural Design V (Community Design)
  • Arch 454: Architectural Design VI (collaboratively with LArch 356)
  • Arch 483: Urban Theory and Issues
  • Arch 582: Urban Morphology
  • Arch 504: Sustainable Development
  • Interior Design 452: Interior Design V

Wendy McClure

College of Art & Architecture
Department of Architecture & Interior Design
Professor

Home Town
New Canaan, Connecticut, USA

Campus Locations
  • Moscow
With UI Since
1987
Office: AAS 308
Phone: (208) 885-6473
Email: Wendy McClure
Mailing Address:
Department of Architecture & Interior Design, University of Idaho
PO Box 442451
Moscow, Idaho 83844-2451

Curriculum Vitae
Urban Morphology Journal
Your Town Design Workshops
City of Moscow Historic Preservation
  • M.Arch., University of Washington, June 1977
  • B.A. Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1974
  • B.S. Environmental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1974

Wendy McClure is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Idaho and practicing architect and community planner. She was the first woman architecture faculty member to be tenured and promoted. She was also the first woman to serve as chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Idaho.

Since joining the university faculty in 1987, she has developed an integrated outreach, teaching and research program, which targets the revitalization needs of Northwest communities. Through the venue of design studio, Wendy has engaged design students in community revitalization projects for over 40 northwest communities. Some of her publications on the subject of downtown revitalization include The Rural Town: Designing for Growth and Sustainability and a chapter for Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities. She is co-editor and contributing author of The Built Environment: A Collaborative Inquiry into Design and Planning released by John Wiley and Sons in 2007 and is currently preparing a manuscript on town-making and sustainable transformations in the intermountain west.

Wendy is the recipient of the Idaho Historic Preservation Council’s “distinguished preservationist award for superlative achievement in preserving the state’s resources,” city and county orchid awards for preservation projects, a New Orleans Historic Landmarks Commission design award for “outstanding achievement in preservation“ and UI alumni awards for excellence in teaching.

Recent Publications
  • McClure, W. “Profiles of Railroad Town Planning and Transformation in the Inland Empire” Geographical Perspectives of the Inland Northwest: A Regional Exploration and Field Guide. Dick G. Winchell, Editor. Submitted March 2008. (In press: Eastern Washington University Press).
  • McClure, W., and Bartuska, T. editors. The Built Environment: A Collaborative Inquiry Into Design and Planning. John Wiley& Sons Inc. 2007.
  • McClure, W. “Community design as a venue for exploring interstitial space in architectural and landscape architectural education” Architecture Journal 306090 Vol. 07, Landscape Within Architecture 2004. 306090 Inc. 2004
  • McClure, W. “Managing and Getting Design Assistance” Your Town: The Citizen’s Institute on Rural Design, National Endowment for the Arts. 2004.
  • McClure, W “Railroad Towns” Encyclopedia of Community: Shared Places, Shared Meanings, from the Village to Virtual World Vol 3 Berkshire Publishing LTD, 2003.
  • McClure, Wendy and Hurand, F, “Re-engaging the Public in the Art of Community Place-making” Downtowns: Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities, Burayidi, Michael A. (editor) New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 2001.  


Scholarship Projects

  • Town-making and transformations : A Morphological Study of Development and Change in Railroad and Mining Communities of the intermountain West (2007-2008)
  • Design and planning studies to promote sustainable development in collaboration with intermountain communities and non-profit organizations:
    • Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute and Conservation Communities of Seattle LLC (2009)
    • Sheridan, Wyo.: Workshop and keynote speaker on Best Design Practices for Sheridan Wyoming Land Institute in Collaboration with the Sonoran Institute (2008)
  • Architectural projects:
    • Additions to existing historic and new contemporary residences featuring sustainable design strategies (Moscow and Latah County)


Outreach & Community Engagement Projects

  • Coordinator of student design and planning proposals for a new green village in collaboration with the Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute and Conservation Communities LLP, 2009.
  • Team member for training workshop on smart growth Sheridan, Wyo., 2008.
  • Team member with Stephen Drown and Gary Austin in student design and planning studies for Cascade, Idaho, 2008.
  • Coordinator of student design of new green city hall for Challis, Idaho. (2008)
  • Northwest Community Development Institute Advanced Class (2007)
  • Coordinator with Gary Austin of student design and planning studies in support of comprehensive planning processes for Sandpoint, Idaho, 2006.
  • Coordinator of student design of community center for Florence, Mont., 2005.
  • Coordinator of student downtown revitalization study for Driggs, Idaho, 2004. 


Awards & Honors

 

*For a complete list of publications, projects and awards, view full CV.