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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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04/21/21

Research

Demand for Design Services Continues to Rapidly Escalate

“As business activity at architecture firms moves sharply toward recovery, it is very encouraging to simultaneously see such positive indicators of future project work increasing in the pipeline.

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Overture beachside senior living community
03/31/21

Residential Design

Accessibility and Amenities Define Beachside Senior Community

Accessibility and amenities define Overture, Poole & Poole’s beachside senior community at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

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Sensory Nook at the Molina Family Latino Gallery
03/31/21

Design

A Better Design for All: the Molina Family Latino Gallery

The new Molina Family Latino Gallery is designed to present content effectively to a broad audience, including people with a variety of physical abilities, while also accommodating diverse learning modes and preferences.

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ESME experiment walk routes courtesy Jenny Roe
03/31/21

Research

Urban Green Spaces Reduce Stress for Older City Dwellers

UVa researchers established a protocol for measuring ambulatory heart rate using body sensors against environmental data among a group of seniors out for a series of walks in Richmond.

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Brandi Condrey
03/31/21

Research

Choice and Voice: Accessibility in Higher Education

Increasingly, students seeking higher education are non-traditional; they come from societal margins. How accessible do Virginia’s physical campuses feel to these students?

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The Aya’s distinctive form responds to the tree line of Delaware Avenue and differentiates each residential level, designed as individual “neighborhoods.” Credit: Hoachlander Davis Photography.
03/31/21

Residential Design

The Aya Alleviates Troubles for D.C. Families in Transition

Studio Twenty Seven Architecture/Leo A Daly creates temporary homes for 50 vulnerable families in D.C.

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03/31/21

Design

The Accessibility-Compliant Design Process of the New Terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

By thinking about accessibility of the New Terminal at Ronald Reagan airport early on, unforeseen impacts to the project budget and schedule were minimized.

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