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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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11/18/20

Research

ABI Remains Stalled in October

While architectural billings failed to show much progress during October, signs of improving business conditions at firms have emerged.

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10/30/20

Opinion

Specifying American-Made Building Products

Earn locally made rebates and receive green building certification points when you specify American-made building products.

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Elon W. Rhodes Early Learning Center.
09/27/20

Architecture

Elon W. Rhodes Early Learning Center

Abundant daylighting and outdoor play spaces promote immersive experiences and the natural curiosity of young learners at VMDO’s Rhodes Early Learning Center.

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HDR's Brendan Iribe Center
09/27/20

Architecture, Design

UMD’s Iribe Center: A Campus Gateway

As a campus gateway, HDR’s Iribe Center at UMD succeeds in place-making.

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Coffee shop by Toby Gonzales
09/27/20

Sketches

Sketches: Coffee Shop

Coffee shop by Toby Gonzales

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Watercolor of UVA by Russell Carlock
09/27/20

Sketches

Sketches: University of Virginia

Watercolor of UVA by Russell Carlock, AIA

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09/22/20

Partner Content

Building Today’s Education Spaces for Lasting Design Success

How can today’s architects design a high performing building that also meets the demand for a healthy learning environment?

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