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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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01/21/20

Facades, Finishes, Furniture, Kitchen & Bath, Lighting, Products

Product Profiles (and more) Coming Soon

Are there furnishings you think we should feature? Is there a kitchen, bath or lighting product that you love? Are the facades, finishes, or textiles that that people need to know about? Contact the editor with your suggestions

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01/19/20

Podcasts

The Architype Project

The AIAS presents an in-depth look at the world of architecture outside of conventional practice with its Architype Project podcast.

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01/19/20

Podcasts

Getting Started: Small Firm Exchange

The AIA Small Firm Exchange podcast is a storytelling project that captures conversations between architects in all stages of their careers.

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01/10/20

Sketches

Show Us Your Sketches

Show us what you’ve been sketching. We’d love to share it.

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01/03/20

Landscape, People

Landscape Profiles (and more) Coming Soon

Do you know a project that should be featured? Do you know someone whose story should be shared? Contact the editor with your suggestions

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11/09/19

Partner Content, Products

Partner Content Explained

Vendors and consultants can share business insights, analysis, and research through our Partner Content program. We’ll only feature one partner […]

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Mossy Rock. Photo by Will Kerner.
03/06/19

Residential Design

Mossy Rock

Mossy Rock combines the welcoming openness of a contemporary house with the simplicity of vernacular structures and barns.

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