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Celebrating Two Decades of Innovation at Virginia Tech’s Center for Design Research 

For over two decades, the Center for Design Research (CDR) has been a beacon of innovation, creativity, and excellence.

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What’s so radical about transparency? 

It’s not a new way of pursuing equity in a firm—it’s a proven one, says WPA’s Mel Price, FAIA

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Page + Miller Hull’s gambit for Niger

The U.S. Embassy Campus in Niamey, Niger, was completed in 2022, and designed by Miller Hull and Page Southerland Page. It is a 2023 AIA Virginia Award of Honor recipient.

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Q+A: Alex Shifflett on her first decade of practice

Architect Alex Shifflett, AIA, is an associate principal at KGD Architecture who says good design is not just good for communities, but great as a teaching tool for young designers hoping to make a difference. “I’m lucky enough to work on projects that matter because it suits the way I work and think,” she says.

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Ted Flato: Exploring smarter, better, easier, cheaper at Design Forum XVI

What is the future of practical technologies that make design easier, as well as the future of how architecture is made? Can large language models (LLMs) transform materials specification for the better? For the greener? Does empathy differentiate humans from machines? Does it matter? How will future technologies change the studio culture of firms? What does craft mean these days, anyway? These and other questions are up for debate this year at Design Forum XVI (Apr. 5-6, in Richmond) under the banner of “[Un]Certainty: Reflections on Craft at the Cyber Frontier.” 

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Op-Ed: CODE Charlottesville improves an unloved corner of Halprin’s masterpiece

The LEED Platinum Center of Developing Entrepreneurs, known as the CODE Building, opened in Charlottesville in 2022 to acclaim, both as a work of interdisciplinary design and as a sensitive intervention in the downtown pedestrian mall

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Virginia Air and Space Center. Photo by Jeff Goldberg/Esto
06/22/21

People

Remembering Walter Wildman

“Dad always said he never wanted to be wealthy as an architect. He wanted to make a difference in people’s lives through his work.”

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John Spencer, FAIA
06/18/21

People

Perspectives on Justice: John Spencer on Learning What Fair Really Means

Noland Medalist John Spencer, FAIA, says that justice is only achievable if individuals can accept, and practice, fairness.

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Kendall A. Nicholson, Ed.D, Assoc. AIA, NOMA, LEED GA
06/18/21

People

Perspectives on Justice: Kendall Nicholson on Goals and Processes

Educator and researcher Kendall Nicholson, Assoc. AIA, talks about empathy and responsibility as the foundations of justice.

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Brody Jewish Student Center
06/18/21

Historic Preservation

A Simulated Thatched Roof

The Brody Jewish Student Center was originally covered by a shallow hipped roof that made use of a roofing system popularized by American wood shingle manufacturers in the 1910s and 20s to resemble thatch.

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temple stone masonry units
05/25/21

Facades, Partner Content, Products

Jerusalem Limestone-Look CMU

Temple Stone masonry units provide a unique finish that is great for educational institutions, museums, lobbies, theme parks and municipal and recreational facilities.

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UVA SHW Exterior facing South West
05/25/21

Architecture, Design

Design for Student Health and Wellbeing at UVA

The new Student Health & Wellness Center at UVA presents a model that expands traditional health services and facilitates a new approach to student wellness.

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Masoro Health Centre by GAC
05/25/21

Architecture, Design

New Community Health Center Transforms a Kigali Community

Just outside metropolitan Kigali, the Masoro Health Centre by GAC is part of a multi-decade push by the Rwandan government to improve its healthcare system.

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