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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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03/26/21

Research

Where Are My People? Native American, First Nations & Indigenous in Architecture

Where Are My People? Native and Indigenous in Architecture chronicles both societal and discipline specific metrics in an effort to highlight the experiences of Native American, First Nations, Alaskan Native, Métis, Inuit and other Indigenous designers, architects, and educators.

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03/24/21

Research

ABI Positive After Year of Decline

The ABI reached its first positive mark since February 2020, according to the latest report from the AIA.

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03/22/21

Design

The Portsmouth P: Designing a City Identity

The 2020 cohort of the Emerging Leaders in Architecture was challenged with creating innovative, equitable, and resilient solutions for transforming City of Portsmouth.

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03/22/21

Arts & Culture

Thirty Years of Architecture at William and Mary

1991-2021 Alumni Exhibition When I was a young student of architecture, I was lucky to learn from one of the […]

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03/22/21

Research

1 x 1: The Potential of the Singular

The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) is hosting the 2021 Symposium on March 23-26.

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03/12/21

Design, Furniture, Products

The Fairfield: Custom Workstation Designed to Support Caregivers

These easily-sanitized custom workstations were a collaboration between Quinn Evans and TMC Furniture. Named for the library that inspired them, the Fairfield enables caregivers with infants or toddlers to use the library’s computers.

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03/11/21

People

Nourishing Employees Working from Home: Strategies to Survive & Thrive

How have companies coped with keeping employees productive and connected? How will they adjust going forward? On the first anniversary of lockdown, might it not be a good time to show how some have not only survived, but thrived?

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