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

Architecture, Residential Design

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.

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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.

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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.

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Visitors to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia are free to gather for selfies or to read the faded Park Service panels illustrating the natural phenomenon before them. They come to learn the history of a place all but destroyed during the Civil War (and long since rebuilt by local merchants and the National Park Service to its pre-war glory). They come for the natural beauty of this respite near the midway point of the Appalachian Trail between Georgia and Maine. They come for a good time, too, and the ancillary industries of tubing, kayaking, and canoeing. William Richards, photographer
08/17/23

Featured

Harpers Ferry at the edge of the world

Like the Natural Bridge or the caves at Luray, Harpers Ferry is one of the geological wonders of the region. There’s no other way to describe this confluence of two formidable rivers other than to say it’s a spectacularly dramatic landscape.

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The workshop's hosts, Grimm + Parker Architects, recently completed the Holabird Academy School and Community Center for Baltimore City Public Schools, a 94,000 GSF LEED Platinum building that's net zero and is already exceeding its projected goals. Photo courtesy Grimm + Parker Architects
 08/16/23

Events

Carbon modeling workshop focuses on skill-building and decarbonizing your projects

There’s a lot of talk about decarbonization out there—and for good reason. It’s widely agreed to be an effective strategy to reduce the embodied and operational carbon footprint of our design and building activities.

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Exhibition panel in Venice from an oblique angle.
The European Cultural Centre’s Italian section is currently hosting an annual exhibition called “Time, Space, Existence,” and invited firms from around the world like Berryville’s Carter + Burton Architecture to participate. This year, Jim Burton, AIA and his design team planned and shaped an exhibition installation called “Tectonics and Craft for a Critical Regionalism,” a display that chronicles both the firm’s history, its methodology, its influences, and the practice of sustainable architecture in Virginia and beyond.
 08/02/23

Featured

Q+A: Jim Burton on telling the story of Virginia architecture in Venice 

Architect Jim Burton and his design team planned and shaped the exhibit, “Tectonics and Craft for a Critical Regionalism,” which will be on display at the Palazzo Mora in Venice until Nov. 26. In this interview, he talks about why regionalism matters more than ever for all of us.

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Guess who’s in Venice this summer? Berryville’s Carter + Burton Architecture has put together an exhibit called “Tectonics and Craft for a Critical Regionalism,” on display at the Palazzo Mora in a show curated by the European Cultural Centre Italy (in collaboration with Open Space Venice). The exhibit runs until Nov. 26.
 07/28/23

Member Voice

Carter + Burton Architecture showcases regional design in Venice

Architect Jim Burton and his design team planned and shaped the exhibit, “Tectonics and Craft for a Critical Regionalism,” which will be on display at the Palazzo Mora in Venice until Nov. 26.

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