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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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09/29/22

Design, Historic Preservation, People

Ann Neeriemer on a Second Life for Old Spaces

Perkins Eastman Associate Principal Ann Neeriemer, AIA, is no stranger to taking an existing space that served one purpose historically and designing it for today’s students and teachers.

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09/29/22

Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation

Hanbury Reinvents Mary Washington Hub Seacobeck Hall for the Next 100 years

Hanbury renovated — and reinvented — Mary Washington’s Seacobeck Hall for another century of vibrant campus activity.

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09/29/22

Architecture, Design, Opinion

Safer K-12 Design: School Should Feel – and Look – Like School

Today’s students grapple with concerns including bullying, fights, the risk of school shootings, natural disasters, and mental health of students and teachers, leading to the need for innovative solutions to make learning spaces open and inclusive while also secure.

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09/29/22

Architecture, Design, Landscape

Preserving A Magical Forest and Uniting Forward-Focused Athletics at Potomac School

The project unites the school’s athletic programs as the primary location for all indoor athletic fitness and training, while providing a variety of new state-of-the-art spaces for athletic competition, learning and community gatherings.

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09/29/22

People

Perspectives on Resilience: Sam Bowling, AIA

Sam Bowling, AIA, discusses the partnership between Work Program Architects and the Elizabeth River Project to create a resilient learning laboratory.

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09/29/22

People

The Poetic of Making: Perspective from a Design Student

I am a practicing architect and researcher pursuing my doctoral studies in architecture and design research at Virginia Tech. I explore topics at the intersection of architectural design and extended reality with a focus on well-being.

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09/29/22

Books

New Book Offers Real-World, Interdisciplinary STEM Lessons Using Architecture to Bridge Disciplinary Divides

K-12 Architecture Education: An Interdisciplinary Guide for Art, Design, STEM, and Career/Technical Teachers by Arnaldo D. Cardona, MA, MS Ed. will engage students and create novel learning connections and experiences in the classroom.

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