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Heirloom Farm Studio, designed by Bushman Dreyfus Architects, is a poplar-clad studio outside Charlottesville that lives in the popular imagination, as well as at the center one of architecture’s most fundamental theories about shelter. Virginia Hamrick Photography

03/23/23

Contexts Collide at Heirloom Farm Studio to Create a Familiar Form

Heirloom Farm Studio, designed by Bushman Dreyfus Architects is a poplar-clad studio and an expression of colliding contexts.

"Gardening," a plate from Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, by Diderot et d'Alembert (1762), public domain.

11/15/23

Featured

Five revenue and morale boosters for small firms in 2024

If you’re in charge of an architecture firm, there’s often little time to reflect. Here are the top five things you should think about at the end of the calendar year to improve your revenue next year—especially if you’re a small business.

After Architecture principals Kyle Schumann and Katie MacDonald photographed and traced timber waste, then translated each "cookie" into a 3D model to create Tangential Timber, a prototype to rethink both what's possible and what's all around us.

11/15/23

Featured

Tangential Timber creates something out of the things we usually deem nothing

After Architecture’s newest prototype project, Tangential Timber, which has won multiple awards over the last year, asks us to rethink both what’s possible and what’s all around us.

Springfield park-and-ride line, March 1973. Photograph by Yoichi R. Okamoto, public domain.

11/09/23

Featured

Springfield loses bid for FBI HQ to Greenbelt

The General Services Administration (GSA) confirmed this week that the new FBI headquarters will go to Greenbelt, Md., which was chosen over nearby Landover and Springfield, Va.

As of April 30 of this year, NCARB's ARE rolling clock policy is no more, replaced by its new Score Validity policy.

11/03/23

Featured

Rolling Back the Rolling Clock: Five takes on NCARB’s gambit to improve equity in the exam

Since 2006, all candidates for Architecture licensure in the U.S. have been bound by NCARB’s Five-Year Rolling Clock, which has been replaced by a new policy that is meant to improve equity in the test taking process.

Coffee or tea? It's all available at ArchEx this year, along with a little conversation.

10/11/23

Arts & Culture, Events

Lots of networking opportunities slated for ArchEx 2023

Coffee or tea? It’s all available at ArchEx this year, along with a little conversation.

Join AIA Virginia Nov. 1-3 in Richmond for Architecture Exchange East 2023, as we work to foster a sense of community and collaboration among professionals in the architectural field. We will explore, workshop, and discuss ways to collaborate with stakeholders as we navigate this unique industry. Register today for ArchEx! Virginia State Capitol plan, designed by you-know-who. Courtesy of Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), public domain.

09/28/23

Events, Featured

Three takes on innovation at ArchEx 2023 in November

Architecture Exchange East (Nov. 1-3) has doubled down on what’s new about innovation with sessions about connectivity, technological or otherwise.

Capital One Hall's façade alternates between marble and glass strips, an idea conceived by HGA’s head Tim Carl, FAIA, and design principal Nat Madson, AIA, that was reportedly inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s photography—a nod to the interplay of our perception of urban space as its framed, sometimes tightly, by gaps and fissures in the urban fabric. Photography © Alan Karchmer

09/13/23

Featured

HGA’s Capital One Hall turns the tide at Tysons

HGA’s handsome marble-clad Capital One Hall at Tysons Corner announces a totally different direction for an ex-novo urban area that has been defined less by architectural vision over the years and more by cloverleaf interchanges and white-knuckle merges.