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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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Staircases sketch by Marium Rahman Assoc. AIA
02/23/21

Sketches

Sketches: Staircases

Staircases by Marium Rahman Assoc. AIA

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Oversized veneer masonry units
02/23/21

Facades, Partner Content, Products

Oversized Masonry Units Add Large-Scale Impact to Your Project

Titan Series oversized veneer masonry units provide a stout accent detail for columns and piers, and can deliver massive impact when used as a field application.

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Architect sitting at desk
01/27/21

Design

Energy Retrofits of Existing Buildings: Embodied Opportunity

Renovating existing building stock can reduce the impact of already embodied carbon, create more equitable communities, and stimulate the economy.

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Sketch of US Capitol
01/27/21

Sketches

Sketches: Still Standing

“Still Standing” an in situ sketch of the U.S. Capitol by Manoj Dalaya, FAIA

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MTFA's conservation work on the Folger Library Exterior photo
01/26/21

Historic Preservation

A New Masque for Shakespeare’s Home

MTFA Architecture’s award-winning conservation work for the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed clues about how similar marble-clad buildings from the WPA-era could be renewed for new generations of visitors.

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Sunny Day at the VMFA by Charles Piper
01/26/21

Sketches

Sketches: Sunny Day at the VMFA

“Sunny Day at the VMFA” plein air work by Charles Piper, AIA.

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Carr's Hill Renovation Exterior
01/21/21

Historic Preservation

Reclaiming Carr’s Hill for the Next 100 Years

Every move matters in a historic restoration, every element is revealed and made vulnerable, and every piece must be returned to its original appearance while vastly improving the integrity of the systems.

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