Community Remembrance: The AIA Virginia Student Prize Competition for 2021

Prompt written by Marcia Feuerstein, AIA, Associate Professor, and Susan Piedmont-Palladino, Director, Virginia Tech’s Washington Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC)

At 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, architecture students across the Commonwealth of Virginia clicked a link to find the prompt for the AIA Virginia Prize Student Competition, which was open to students at Hampton University, the University of Virginia and both campuses of Virginia Tech’s architecture program, the main campus in Blacksburg and the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC). Each year the responsibility of drafting the prompt rotates among the schools and this year it was the WAAC’s turn.

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