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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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02/24/21

Research

Architectural Billings Continue to Contract

While federal stimulus and the increasing pace of vaccinations may begin to accelerate progress in the coming months, the year has gotten off to a slow start.

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Arlington Site Plan
02/24/21

Design

Arlington National Cemetery’s $85 Million Expansion

In the context of the larger, 27-acre addition, Jacobs’ columbarium is a sculptural counterpoint to wide open spaces associated with this historic cemetery in operation since the Civil War.

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New River Train Observation Tower
02/24/21

Design

Tech Students Kick-start Heritage Park in Radford with Rail Tower

The goal, shared by so many river-rail American cities, is in part to tell the story of Radford’s industrial and cultural heritage.

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2021 aia virginia prize
02/24/21

Opinion

Community Remembrance: The AIA Virginia Student Prize Competition for 2021

The goal is to challenge us all, students and professionals alike, to reflect on how our chosen discipline, design, can help shape a more just and equitable world.

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Society's Cage
02/24/21

Architecture

Society’s Cage: Architects Use Data to Visualize Systemic Injustice

The experience of visiting Society’s Cage centers on entering a 15’x15’ cube comprised of iron rods of varying lengths suspended within a series of rods that form a four-sided curtain. Visitors don’t move through the curtain so much as they contend with it.

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Restored Newel Post
02/23/21

Historic Preservation

Restoring a Helical Newel Post

One of Glavé & Holmes’ recent projects illuminates the interesting quirks found in significant historic properties and the technical innovation and historic expertise needed to make them whole.

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02/23/21

Sketches

Sketches: Architecture; Perception of Space

Digital Media on Ink by Marium Rahman Assoc. AIA

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