UVa. School of Architecture Admissions Catalog

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W EL C O M EThe School of Architecture includes four disciplines—architecture, architectural history, landscape architecture, and urban and environmental planning—connected by strong commitments to the community of the School, and to working with commu-nities beyond the School. A rich tapestry of interdisciplinary research themes— scholarly “swarms,” not silos—connect the faculty’s research with the curriculum, and help us engage in the most important issues of the day.

For decades, sustainability—a shared ded-ication to meeting today’s needs without compromising the ability of future genera-tions to meet their own needs, balancing issues of ecology, economy, and social equity—has been central to the School’s mission. Sustainability and human health, infrastructure, and cultural preservation are particular strengths of the School.

Experiential education and its complement, action research, are central to the School’s efforts. Challenging classes, stimulating

seminars, and the rigorous design studio sequence produce some of the country’s most sought–after graduates. At the same time, workshops, theses and design–build projects are national models for faculty and student research successfully applied for the public good.

With the creation of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson linked education, architectural space, and ongoing democratic citizenship in his Academical Village. As the University prepares to enter its third century, our country finds exciting new opportunities such as more nearly equal civic engagement, global networking, and the worldwide emergence of democracies following the American ex-periment. Testing Mr. Jefferson’s formula—education for citizenship set in a precise architectural construct—against today’s opportunities and challenges provides an exciting chance to re–inscribe its historic importance during this time of global change.

The School of Architecture community—our faculty, staff, and students—have created a strong, positive, and resilient community focused on envisioning and creating preferred futures. We look forward to including new community members in this shared project.

Kim

Tanzer, Dean and Ed

ward E. Elson Professor

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D EPA R T M EN T SArchitecture

Architectural History

Landscape Architecture

Urban and Environmental Planning

Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment

Degrees

Rankings

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Architecture provides a mode of critical inquiry of contemporary culture, grounded in history and extended through obser-vation, analysis and design. As citizens working in the evolving and inherited ecologies of cities we are committed to providing leadership to the discipline and practice of architecture by engaging in inno-vative multi–disciplinary research, practice, and teaching integrating social, aesthetic and environmental processes. It is our goal to prepare the next generation of leaders to engage the complex design challenges of the future. Degree programs include a 4-year Bachelor of Science degree, as well as professional and research-oriented Masters Degrees and an interdisciplinary Ph.D.

The Architecture Department is committed to advancing knowledge in our discipline and practice through design pedagogies which critically engage three areas of research:

- The interdependence of cultural forces,

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ecological processes, and ethical concerns- The relationship between architectural aesthetics and construction methodologies- The implications of emerging technologies for the design of struc-tures and sites

These issues are developed across the program’s curriculum, as well as through student and faculty work in design studios and seminars. As these threads of design investigation interact, new poetic possibili-ties emerge that are visible in the products of our unique perspective.In the design of buildings, landscapes and urban infrastructure, working simultaneously at the scale of the hand and that of the city, we share the responsibility for creating a stimulating and sustain-able setting for the development of diverse cultural expression. We work close at hand and travel great distances, from Charlottesville, Washington and New York to Barcelona, Venice, India and Beijing. We apply our hands to the making of things, open our minds to the

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voices of multiple communities and extend our reach in a network of collaborations across the university and beyond. We study the dynamic fullness of the sites we enter, taking seriously our power to reveal and transform them.

This is our territory, from which we advance the critical significance and catalytic potential of our academic discourse and professional engagement. The Department of Architecture is situated in a multi–disciplinary school that also includes the Departments of Architectural History, Landscape Architecture, and Urban & Environmental Planning. Cross–disciplinary engagement is a pervasive phenomenon, with each program benefiting from this rich context.

The discipline of Architecture is evolving in a broad field of buildings and constructions, city and urban space, site and landscape with deep cultural and social meaning. Architecture collaborates in solving needs and problems in our contemporary world.

Architecture is:- culture and progress- service and commitment- necessary and meaningful- transformative and innovative

The Department of Architecture is actively engaged in research and education with the following understanding:- the condition of the social need and sustainable future- interdisciplinary Architecture/Landscape/Urban/Theory- deep architectural knowledge- technologies, applied thoughtfully for solving contemporary problems

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The mission of the Department of Architecture to provide the students with:- a consciousness of the world and its diversity- the responsibility to choose their own path- a broad range of questions and scales- collaboration skills with interdisciplinary experience introducing external knowledge to design- historical and theoretical knowledge- technical and foundational knowledge- analogical and digital representation and thinking- research skills to acquire knowledge and develop new methods

Architecture DegreesThe shift from insular modes of action to the global has demanded broad changes in the study and teaching of design, theory, history, and planning. U.Va.’s School of Architecture stands as a leader in this paradigm shift. Indeed, the School has become a model for 21st-cen-tury engaged public universities, with a curriculum that emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration.

The department offers two Master’s and Bachelor of Science in Architecture, as well as collaborating with the School’s other de-partments to offer the Ph.D in the Constructed Environment. These programs are anchored by a rigorous design curriculum that provides a forum for synthesizing parallel studies in history, theory, technol-ogy, and representation. In keeping with the public mission of the University of Virginia that dates to its founding, these programs are committed to developing the next generation of civic and professional leaders.

The Master’s degree is accredited by the National Architectural Accreditation Board (NAAB). A non-professional Master’s degree in Architecture is offered to applicants who hold a design-related bache-lor’s degree. Graduate students also pursue degrees in more than one field with increasing frequency.

Undergraduate students entering the Department of Architecture follow one curriculum for their first two years. Starting in their second year, the strategic choices of electives will prepare the student to pursue the concentration of their choice.

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The Pre-Professional BS Arch concentration offers a mix of rigorous design research studios, required disciplinary courses and electives preparing students for a graduate program in Architecture. The curriculum is designed to maximize opportunities to explore through the design of complex projects as well as representing intentions in material form.

The Design Thinking BS Arch concentration is for students interested in multidisciplinary problem-solving beyond architecture. The curric-ulum builds on the strong core in the design of the built environment while adding required courses in leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. Design Thinking studios attract students from all majors in the University, allowing truly collaborative learning. Students in both BS Architecture concentrations can pursue a thesis project in their last year of study.

The faculty is committed to working with students in their regular coursework and in their individual research. We believe in the experi-ence of education, in the exchange of ideas and interests. We believe in the horizontality of relationships, with faculty and students working together, advancing the agendas of both. U.Va. professors, above all, are as eager to learn as students.

The design studios are the core of architectural education in the program, with a dual role of providing the foundation of a design ed-ucation and the development of a design research agenda. Students are challenged to choose among several research tracks proposed by the faculty of the Department of Architecture and taught through studios, required courses, and elective seminars. Students build upon these experiences to develop their own research methodology and unique interests in the broad field of the built environment. In the design philosophy of the School, without disciplinary boundaries, studio is the place for exploration—from components to buildings, to urban design, and to landscape.

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Jeana RippleDesign-driven Manufacturing

Jeana Ripple, Assistant Professor in Architecture, has launched a collabo-rative research project with Suzanne Moomaw, Associate Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning, to investigate innovation potential in Vir-ginia-based manufacturing. The project is focused on the concurrent develop-ment of innovative building products and necessary economic infrastructure to foster small-industry potential in Virginia communities. Ripple’s spring research studios and graduate student research projects combine existing local manufacturing processes with design thinking, performance opti-mization software and the school’s digital fabrication equipment. Students develop and test new structural, sus-tainable, and aesthetic applications for locally available materials and fabrica-tion techniques. Moomaw’s economic development research tests these

technical prototypes for their viability within the existing manufacturing and educational infrastructure, ultimately informing both the prototype design and strategic planning for the com-munity. Design-driven manufacturing pushes the development of local entre-preneurship potential and the role of designers in the manufacturing market. This research is sponsored by the Arts in Action Fund from the Office of the Vice Provost of the Arts | fostering access + innovation.

Image: Fourth-year students, Han Jin and

Jennifer Fang, are investigating the potential

of additive manufacturing (3D printing) to max-

imize strength while minimizing material. This

prototype tests the use of 3d-printed wood in

the form of strong but flexible cancellous bone

structures.

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The oldest and largest Architectural History program in the nation lets students study at one of the world’s most important histor-ical landmarks: Mr. Jefferson’s university. Architectural historians at the University of Virginia explore the history of architecture, landscape, and urban form by analyzing the sources and forms of creative architectural expression while considering architecture as a critical feature in a broader social and cultural context.

The department’s teaching and research aim to illuminate the changing meaning of vernacular and monumental designs for the people who commission, design, build, use, preserve, and demolish buildings, land-scapes, and cities. The department’s areas of study—and faculty specialties—span both time and geography, from Ancient to Modern and across all continents ofthe world.

Through lecture courses, specialized research seminars, independent thesis and dissertation projects, and guest lectures

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and symposia, faculty and students explore key aspects of the built world. Historic Preservation is also a strong component and many students earn the Certificate (see page 34).

In addition to a strong concentration of specialists in American architecture, our faculty includes specialists in medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, modern European and East Asian architectural history. Faculty members have been honored with teaching awards, research fellowships, and prizes for their scholarly publications.

With more than 1000 alumni around the world, graduates of our program include college and university teachers, architects, pres-ervationists, writers and museum professionals. Degree programs include a Bachelor of Architectural History, a Master of Architecural History, and a Ph.D. in Art and Architecural History offered jointly with the faculty of the Art History department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty and student work extend far beyond the University of Virginia grounds. Faculty publish and speak at a variety of international confer-ences and schools. Recent publications range from the Renaissance and Michelangelo’s drawings to historic preservation, from early American churches in the South and Caribbean, to Edith Whartonand her architectural interests.

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The program sends students and faculty to a number of overseas programs, including the Courtauld in London, Venice, Jamaica, East Asia, and a longstanding program in Beijing. Visiting scholars from abroad, as well as a new professor from China with expertise in Chinese cities, bring an international perspective to the program.

Additionally, we are home to the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of SAH, the only student chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. This group organizes events, guest lectures, field trips to local sites, and provides students the opportunity to present their work.

DegreesLocated in the highly regarded School of Architecture, many of the Architectural History department’s students and faculty take ad-vantage of interdisciplinary associations with colleagues working in architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Many students in the Master of Architectural History program take advantage of the School of Architecture’s certificate program in Historic Preservation.

Dual degree programs are also available for students wishing to combine their work in Architectural History with training in design and planning. The courses and faculty of the McIntire Department of Art, with its complementary offerings in both art and architectural history, further enrich the Architectural History department’s program. Students are also able to benefit from the rich offerings in the depart-ments of history, anthropology, literature, and other allied fields.

Undergraduates can both major and minor in architectural history. Also, undergraduate majors in Architectural History can continue on for a 5th Year Master of Architectural History.

The department has a two-year Master of Architectural History program with approximately thirty students enrolled. Graduates of this program find employment in historic preservation, public history, museum work, and in professional practice. The Architectural History and Art History faculties jointly offer a Ph.D. program in Art and Architectural History. This program continues to prepare students for careers in college and university teaching, scholarly and popular publication, curatorial work, as well as areas of historic preservation and public history. In addition, faculty and students can participate in the School’s Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment.

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Architecture in JamaicaLouis NelsonArchitecture and Empire in Jamaica is the first scholarly analysis of eigh-teenth-century Jamaican architecture and the first serious book-length study of historic architecture in the British Caribbean. Spanning from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, the book argues that Jamaican architecture played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern At-lantic and the emergent British Empire. The book depends on the discoveries made over a decade of investment in Jamaica by the Falmouth Field School, an on-site month-long field school of 15 to 20 graduate and undergraduate students from U.Va. The Field School has investigated hundreds of surviving and ruinous buildings and completed

careful analysis of private accounts and public records. Spaces in the story range widely; from shop windows filled with newly imported finery from England and India to the whipping posts in the market square. The materi-al realities of these spaces determined the contours of everyday life. In indi-vidual chapters, the storyline engages the historical connections between Jamaica and West Africa, the conceptu-al relationships between Jamaica and Ireland as sites of conquest, Jamaica’s role as the jewel of the Caribbean, and the relationship between Jamaica and India as sequential chapters in the cul-tural formation of the British “Indies.”

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We seek to cultivate the next generation of design leaders working toward a more sustainable and just world. Our faculty and students address critical issues that we believe should influence the design of all landscapes, including social justice for under-represented communities, renewal of degraded sites, diverse ecosystems, and urban adaptations to climate change. Our curriculum offers a strate-gic understanding of landscapes as extensive armatures of dynamic systems, bringing new performance capacity to the designed environment.

Students are continually challenged to innovate with design solutions that simultaneously contribute to public life and embody an ethic towards the bio-physical world. Our design studio sequence is very demanding, but the dedicated teaching faculty and research opportunities we offer our students to learn, question, and develop their own approach to the urgent matters in our profession are exceptionally rewarding.

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Our teaching philosophy encourages graduate students to integrate their previous intellectual backgrounds and skills into their landscape architec-ture studies culminating in independent research projects in their final year. Students grow through our teaching and research assistantships, working directly with the faculty in their research. Design studios are the center of student communal inquiry and discussion. Foundational studio inves-tigations begin locally in the University’s Academical Village, the city of Charlottesville, and the Virginia Piedmont. From these cultural landscapes, students learn firsthand the meanings and medium of landscape and begin to identify the biophysical processes and social patterns of sites. These foundations are crucial for success in advanced studios that focus on urban and post-urban global investigations in cities like New Orleans, New York, Washington, D.C., Barcelona, and Venice.

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Based on our question–driven approach to exploring the design of land-scapes, each studio includes an in-depth research component. Additionally, each studio is linked to supporting curricula in theory, history, visualization, and fabrication. Our innovative eco-tech curriculum re-centers our teaching of technology around contemporary ecological theory and applied science. Our state-of-the-art digital fabrication facilities support innovative ways of thinking and modelling, while we continue to value hand-making and drawing.

DegreesThe design of landscape is a significant cultural practice that tangibly expresses human intentions and values in the built form. Our accredited graduate professional program synthesizes the study of ecological systems and cultural contexts, preparing graduates for leadership roles on multi–dis-ciplinary teams.

Throughout our curriculum, we act on our commitment to revitalize com-munities through cultural interventions in forms and processes at the scale of sites, neighborhoods, urban infrastructure systems, and metropolitan watersheds.

We support a wide range of interdisciplinary explorations by our students in Architecture, Architectural History, Urban and Environmental Planning, Art, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Law and Commerce. Our con-sistent emphasis is on understanding the international context for trends and insights in our discipline, so that our students can make significant contributions outside the US as well as nationally. In addition, faculty and students can participate in the School’s Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment.

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The LAR section of the studio focuses on the development of urban ecotones as driven by planted forms and their evolv-ing dynamics – a landscape vision to re-imagine the ‘spaces of tension’ between Ciutat Vella and Eixample. The studio introduces methods of interpreting and describing varied structures, complex-ity, and richness of urban forest, and explores its position and design through the lens of ‘architecture of trees’.

Dew StudioFall 2013, Barcelona

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Planning is a systematic, creative way to influ-ence the future of neighborhoods, cities, and rural areas. A planning degree is for students who want to serve communities facing social, economic, environmental, and cultural chal-lenges by working with residents to enhance a sustainable quality of life, protect the natural environment, preserve historic buildings and landscapes, promote social justice for disad-vantaged groups, and deal effectively with population growth or decline. The Program in Urban and Environmental Planning balances the development of professional planning skills with a liberal arts education emphasizing interdisciplinary study. Our graduates work in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. They hold jobs as transportation planners for the government, sustainability directors for private firms, and staff for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Piedmont Environmental Council, among many others.

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The curriculum integrates professional courses, both theoretical and technical, with a liberal arts education focused on understanding our cities and environments. In particular the Program introduces students to the theories of planning, methods of analysis, effective means of communica-tion, planning processes, and creative strategies for implementation. Some key areas of study include sustainable community development, environ-mental impacts, public and private costs of development, and neighbor-hood planning and community development.

Students typically take courses in the social and natural sciences, the humanities, and in design fields that complement professional courses in planning practice and theory. Graduates begin work in the public or private sectors or go on to graduate professional studies in a number of fields including Business, Law, and Public Administration. The scope of the planner’s work encompasses present and future urban and environmental concerns, including such diverse issues as environmental impact, quality of life, and the public and private costs of development. Public sector planners work for all levels of government, formulating plans to redevelop or re-habilitate downtowns and neighborhoods, develop land aesthetically and profitably, and regulate private development to protect public interests.

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Although planners frame long-range designs, anticipating futures five to fifteen years away, they are also deeply involved in current projects. Private sector planners employed with land developers, utilities, banks, property management firms, industries, and other major corporations do similar work according to the particular concerns of each business. Many of these concerns are integrated with the department’s focus on sustainable community development.

The Department currently offers two degrees. In addition to a four-year Bachelor’s and a two-year Master’s of Urban and Environmental Planning, the Department offers a Minor for students throughout the University and a certificate in Historic Preservation. There are also a number of dual degree opportunities within the Master’s program. Faculty and students also participate in the School’s interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment.

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Guoping HuangMozambique

Mozambique is a beautiful country with rich natural resources. However, it is also one of the poorest countries in the world because of decades of civil war, and one of the most vulnerable counties to climate change according to various forecasts. TechnoServe, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washing-ton D.C., has launched an Agro-Forestry Village Program in 5 Mozambican prov-inces to promote sustainable develop-ment in local communities. To support this vision, Professor Guoping Huang at the Department of Urban and Environ-mental Planning is in collaboration with Dobbin International Inc., to prepare a strategic plan for TechnoServe Mozam-bique. The plan will yield two products for each of the 11 pilot districts. The first will be a baseline geospatial database and analysis that can reveal the land potentials and development constraints. The second is a multi-sector multi-scale strategic plan recommending future land use distribution and infrastructure development.

Image is showing the Human Development Index

analysis, Irrigation Potential analysis and Acces-

sibility analysis for the study districts in Niassa

Province, Mozambique. (Maps are produced

by MUEP students: Margot Elton, Abbey Ness,

Luke Juday, with support and data from Dobbin

International Inc.)

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P h . D . I N T H EC O N S T R U C T ED EN V I R O N M EN TThe Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment is a new multidisciplinary degree supporting advanced research in topics that engage one or more of the School’s four disciplines: architecture, landscape architec-ture, urban and environmental planning, and architectural history.

The constructed environment encompasses both the human-made physical world, and the social relationships that shape its history, theory and development. The Ph.D. program has been developed to respond to the wide range of problems and potentials of emerging phenomena across the constructed environment. Examples range from environmental sustainability and global infrastructure, to afford-able housing and the rise of the megacity, to the implications of digital production and new forms of materiality. Such phenomena are not limited to single disciplines, but require a broader multidisciplinary approach. The goal of the Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment is to create a program that can identify, research and address such multidisciplinary concerns.

Students in the program work closely with advisors and other students in investigations that encompass environmental, economic, social, ethical, esthetic, and historical issues. The focus of individual study may span a broad range of scale, from building components and systems, to buildings, landscapes, cities, and regional and global infrastructural systems such as water, transportation and information, including the policies or practices that define these. The program prepares students for careers in academia, as well as research-orient-ed organizations in the public and private sectors.

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The School of Architecture offers dual degrees throughout all graduate disciplines of the school. In the case of Urban and Environmental Planning, dual degrees outside of the School of Architecture are also possible with the University of Virginia School of Law and the School of Graduate Engineering and Applied Science.

These programs permit the joint use of credit to satisfy the require-ments of each degree and shorten the time required for attaining both degrees. Common dual degrees inlude:

Architecture — Landscape ArchitectureHistory of Architecture — ArchitectureLandscape Architecture — PlanningArchitecture — PlanningPlanning — Law

Students enrolled in one of our graduate programs are also eligible to pursue the Historic Preservation certificate through a 21-credit curriculum program.

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M I N O R S A N D C O N C EN T R AT I O N SA minor allows students to select courses in a second area of interest often in support of their major. Undergraduate students may choose from minor programs at the School or Architecture or any other School within the University.

The School of Architecture offers minors in Global Sustainability, Architectural History, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban and Environmental Planning, and Historic Preservation. Civil Engineering, Studio Art, Foreign Languages, and Business are popular minors taken inthe University.

R A N K I N G SFor a ranking system that is known for considerable variation from year to year, U.Va.’s Master of Architecture (M Arch) program has shown real consistency. Over the last ten years, the M Arch program is one of only two to have remained in the top ten among public university programs and also in the top twenty among all universities. For the fifth year in a row, the Master of Landscape Architecture pro-gram was ranked in the top three most admired programs by Design Intelligence’s survey of Deans of American Architecture Schools. Additionally, Design Intelligence, using evaluations of Deans, profes-sors and practitioners from over 300 landscape architecture firms, has consistently ranked our graduate landscape architecture department in the top ten programs in the US. In the reputational survey of planning educators, the Urban and Environmental Planning Program was ranked third among programs without a Ph.D. (a circumstance that will change in Fall 2014), and seventh among all national programs, according to Planetizen.

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I N T ER D I S C I P L I N A R Y C U R R I C U L AHistoric Preservation Program

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Students enrolled in our graduate programs are also eligible to pursue the Historic Preservation certificate through a 21-credit curriculum program. The program provides opportunities for graduate students to develop the skills and expertise for careers as preservation practitioners within their disciplines while at the same time having close collaboration with the broad spectrum of disciplines that constitute historic pres-ervation today. Students normally complete the course work for the historic preserva-tion certificate during the same period in which they complete their degree program.

The historic preservation program provides a venue for vibrant cross-disciplinary research, planning, and design. It engages faculty and students from different de-partments in vital site-specific work. In the Belmead project, Professors Daniel Bluestone and W.G. Clark worked with students from the four graduate depart-ments to envision ways of adaptively reusing and developing a rich historic site on the James River in Powhatan County. Daniel Bluestone directs the Historic Preservation Program.

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The Belmead ProjectDaniel Bluestone & W.G. Clark

Belmead has long been known for its architectural significance. Located on the James River in Powhatan County, Virginia, the Gothic Revival mansion at Belmead occupied the vanguard of nineteenth-century picturesque Romanticism. Here, Philip Cocke (one of the twenty largest slaveholders in the South) commissioned Alexander Jackson Davis to design his plantation villa. U.Va’s Community History, Plan-ning and Design Workshop assembled a multi-disciplinary team of students and faculty. They expanded the fron-tiers of the site’s narrative, dealing more forthrightly with the landscape of slavery, systems of agricultural reform and sustainability, and the historical adaptive re-use for two African- Ameri-can schools.

Our Belmead guidebook and exhibition now draw visitors into a more profound engagement with American history and culture. The designers’ projects modeled future development that will frame Belmead’s extraordinary chronicle of race, place, and story for future generations. Outside partners included the National Trust, Preserva-tion Virginia, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Powhatan County Historical Society, and members of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, who presented our work to their order, pro-moting preservation of Belmead rather than its sale for suburban development. Students involved: Bridget Hembree (M ARH) Kelly Reed (MLA), and Chase Sparling-Beckley (M Arch).


The Summer Design Institute (SDI), a five-week program, introduces students from non–design backgrounds to techniques of thinking and making that are fundamental to the design process.

With an emphasis on intensity, restriction, design iteration, and a healthy amount of obsession, in 2013, students focused on historical precedents, design, practice, digital representation and documentation tools, all resulting in the production of physical models, drawings, and individual student books called Design Logs.

Local spaces afforded different opportu-nities for exploring the making of place and the choreography of spatial sequenc-es through the arrangement of figures (objects, bounded spaces), fields (extensive surfaces, contextual grounds), and flows (human movement, light/shadow, tempera-ture changes, etc.).

In 2013, this rich and intensive four-week collaboration between Teresa Gali-Izard and Matthew Jull reflected the unique collabo-ration between Architecture and Landscape Architecture at U.Va., an important compo-nent of the singular identity of the School of Architecture. Beth Meyer, Charlie Menefee, Leena Cho, Brian Osborn, Matthew Pinyan, Katie Jenkins and Parker Sutton served as instructors.

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January 2014 will mark the third edition of an ambitious experiment in an all-school design workshop involving the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban and Environmental Planning and Architectural History. As a collaborative and interdisciplinary activity, nearly 300 students from second-year undergraduates to the Master graduating classes will be fully involved in thirty vertically structured teams. Each team has a cross representa-tion of all generations and all the involved departments evenly and randomly distribut-ed. Each year’s workshop has been focused on an important element of Charlottesville’s infrastructure, providing students with the opportunity to explore the city and region. Architecture, City and Landscape, which connects much of the School’s work across all four disciplines and all six research themes, will be the subject of the workshop. The focus of the workshop will be the RT 29 commercial strip in Charlottesville, understood not as a barrier but as a potential urban space connector between the two sides of the street. This workshop will study the concrete case of RT 29 but at the same time it will be the op-portunity to rethink one topic of American urbanism.

This year the workshop will be led by Robertson Professor Xaveer De Geyter, fol-lowing Adriaan Geuze in 2013 and Eduardo Arroyo in 2012.

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Belmont Vortex WorkshopThe 2012 workshop, led by Eduardo Arroyo, was the first ambitious experiment of an all-school design charette involving the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban and Environmental Planning, and Architectural History. As a collab-orative and interdisciplinary activity, nearly 300 students were fully involved in thirty vertically structured teams.

Students were divided up into design teams of 10 students of different levels and disciplines. Each team was assigned one faculty member to facilitate and advise the team as needed. The project area was the Belmont Bridge in Charlottesville, the

surrounding properties, especially the vacant or under-utilized parcels south of the railroad tracks, and adjoining residential neighborhoods. The com-petition followed the guidelines of the ongoing ‘Project Gait-Way,’ a design competition open to the public. Teams submitted their design proposals to this public competition, as well as com-peted in an internal SARC competition which recognized outstanding school proposals.

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A second all-school charette took place in January 2013, focusing in the Riva-nana River. 30 vertical, interdisciplinary teams worked in collaboration with City and County planners as well as local constituencies (real estate developers, neighborhood associations, etc.).

The Rivanna River collects much of the region’s stormwater runoff, and separates the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County from each other. The Rivanna River also provides most of Charlottesville’s water supply and future demands with regard to quantity and quality must be considered.

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The charette culminated in a public presentation, exhibition, and com-petition of the design projects that engaged the local community in envi-sioning the future of Charlottesville.

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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, CENTERS, AND INSTITUTESCenter for Design and Health

Community Design and Research Center

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Global Cultures and the Constructed Environment

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C EN T ER F O RD E S I G N A N D H E A LT HThis research theme addresses the recent national awareness that building, landscape, and community design influence the health and well-being of citizens. From indoor air pollution to the health impacts of sedentary car-dependent lifestyles, public health advo-cates are looking to the planning and design fields for guidance and solutions. The U.Va. School of Architecture is well-positioned to take advantage of this emerging national agenda.

In addition to the new Center for Design and Health, faculty and student work within this theme includes:

- Climate Change, Disaster Management, Coastal Resilience- Biophilic Design and Planning Community - Food and Agriculture- Green Building and Sustainable Design

The Center for Design and Health offers research funding and opportunities. It is directed by Reuben Rainey and Tim Beatley. For more information, see: www.arch.virginia.edu/research/themes/designhealth

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Phoenix CompetitionSchaeffer Somers

The U.Va. School of Architecture was selected as one of four universities to participate in the annual Student Design Charette held in conjunction with the AIA Academy of Architec-ture for Health Fall 2012 Conference. Schaeffer Somers led an interdisciplin-ary team of graduate and undergradu-ate students from the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban & Environmental Plan-ning. The charette and conference in Phoenix, Arizona, focused on the design of a Short Stay Facility intended

to respond to a variety of patient and hospital requirements, while acting as armature for a phased campus master plan. The team’s solution integrated the existing medical center program in a design that responded to the site and climate of Phoenix and generated a typology of patient rooms and gardens to provide a wide range of options for patient-centered care. The student participants were Rachel Stevens, Paul Golisz, Sonad Uygur, Christopher Chu, and Victor Hugo de Souza Azevedo.


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The Community Design and Research Center (CDRC) is an interdis-ciplinary research and community practice center that builds on the School of Architecture’s long history in community design, engage-ment, and public scholarship. It is directed by Suzanne Moomaw.

The CDRC initiates, generates, and works collaboratively with partners to connect faculty, students, and community members to research and design application projects aimed at addressing systemic local, regional, national, and global challenges. Called the “wicked” problems of society, these include human settlements, sus-tainable ecosystems, poverty, food and health inequities, economic development, income disparity, cultural and historical preservation and restoration, and social equity and justice, to name only a few.

The four disciplines of the School of Architecture—architectural history, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and environ-mental planning—work together to bring new ways of thinking about and conceptualizing solutions to problems facing society.

The goals of the CDRC are to support faculty, students, and commu-nity members to:

- Increase our research and practice of ways that design disciplines inform our knowledge of systems thinking, engagement, and solu-tions in unique ways.- Develop synergistic linkages between sustainability, design, new technologies, and community development.- Build the capacity within the School of Architecture and with on-Grounds and community partners to define problems with an inter-disciplinary lens and to collaboratively build strategies for sustainable solutions across Charlottesville, Virginia, and the world.


Research indicates that housing occu-pied by low-income families is among the least energy-efficient, placing fur-ther financial stresses on households already struggling. Since 2004, eco-MOD, and its sister project ecoREMOD, have been creating energy-efficient prefab and rehab housing for affordable housing organizations.

The design for ecoMOD4, a home completed in 2009 for Afghani refugees through Habitat for Humanity of Great-er Charlottesville, is being commercial-ized for sale to two affordable housing organizations as well as market rate homebuyers. Funded by the largest grant in the history of the School of Ar-chitecture ($2.45 million) the ecoMOD South Research Team is partnering with two non-profits and a Virginia based modular homebuilder to refine and expand the design. Three versions of the new four-bedroom design will be placed in Southwestern and Southside Virginia in 2013. They will be nearly net zero energy, and built to meet the Passive House Standard.

Two of the ecoMOD South homes are being installed in South Boston, Virgin-ia, located across the street from six two-story 1970’s apartment buildings. In a fall 2012 studio, the ecoREMOD SoBo team proposed energy efficient upgrades for these low-income hous-ing apartments, including movable shade devices and rain gardens.

In the 10th and Page neighborhood of Charlottesville, the ecoREMOD Block by Block (BxB) project is partnering with the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program (AHIP) to renovate and pre-serve homes while creating a scalable model for repair, rehabilitation, and green renovation across vulnerable neighborhoods.

Each ecoMOD and ecoREMOD project involves a collaborative team of Architecture, Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Architectural History and Planning students and faculty.

ecoMOD / ecoREMOD: Sustainable Affordable HousingJohn Quale


U R B A N DY N A M I C SR E S E A R C H I N I T I AT I V EThe new Urban Dynamics Research Initiative (UDRI) examines the impact of climate change, urbanization and careless development in urban areas across the globe in order to develop adaptive policy and design responses. We have chosen three sites that represent a range of urban typologies and conditions, and where at least one team member has research experience: the North Slope, Alaska and nearby communities; greater Casablanca, Morocco; and the Pearl River Delta of China. These are compelling com-parative research sites because the impacts of climate change are transforming these coastal communities in different ways, and the outcome is unknown. The UDRI team, comprised of faculty in three departments from within the School of Architecture and three from across the University, will focus on researching current and predicted conditions and responses, visualizing trends and expected outcomes, and developing strategies to help local communities respond to these challenges.


Jorg SiewekeDelta CitiesStudios and workshops investigate a series of Delta Cities in a climate of change. The goal of the comparative research is to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the swampy ground these cities share, to allow for an in-formed outlook into their future.

Delta Cities have been impelled to manage the advantages and disad-vantages of their geographical setting from the first day. Similar patterns of modernization can be found in their asynchronous historic development, for example in the rise and fall of New Orleans and Venice during past centuries. Both former empires are sinking and shrinking as a consequence of losing their adaptive capacities to a

belief of control and order over nature during the process of modernization.Delta Cities have been and will be the avant garde in a process of adapting to various economic, ecologic and so-cio-cultural changes imposed on other cities as well. In a dynamic environment of change, how can these cities stay fit to sustain a state of stability and not risk decaying into a state of stagnation?

Beginning with a critical reading of the shortcomings in the modernization of Venice, other Delta Cities are studied as comparative research cases. How can the generalist professions of landscape architecture and urbanism help to develop strategies that mediate future transformation processes?


R E GE N ER AT EThe U.Va. School of Architecture educates professionals who care about engaging the particularities of place to effect positive change. Our pedagogy inculcates a critical perspective on place–one that gleans key lessons from the past and present, from historical patterns and ecological process-es, in order to imagine how to regenerate places for the future.

With research support provided by the Brown Initiative, students and faculty record analogue, and propose renewed designs and uses for culturally significant land-scapes and sites.


Beth Meyer’s involvement with the Charlottesville Downtown Mall runs the gamut from grass-roots preservation advocate to studio instructor to exhi-bition designer to scholar. Five years ago, renowned landscape architect Lawrence Halprin’s design for the Mall, an eight block long pedestrian street within the city’s historic district, was little known outside of Charlottesville. Due to the research, public history events, walking tours, and publica-tions written about the Mall by Meyer and dozens of graduate students who worked with her and U.Va. Preservation Director Daniel Bluestone as research assistants, city residents and officials and urban historians have a clearer appreciation of the design attributes and historical context fundamental to its significance as a designed cultural landscape.

Charlottesville Mall ProjectBeth Meyer

This year, Meyer is completing two books that are the final products of this multi-year collaborative project. The first is a Field Guide to the Char-lottesville Mall, a small, illustrated book co-authored with Lauren Noe (MLA2009) intended for city residents and visitors who are curious about the Mall’s design characteristics. The second, Halprin and Collective Creativ-ity in Charlottesville, 1973-2010. From Urban Renewal to Constructing Com-munity, will be the third book in a new Modern Landscapes series published by Princeton Architectural Press and The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

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D E S I GN R EP R E S E N TAT I O N A N D M AT E R I A L PR AC T I C EDesign thinking has always been closely linked to methods of representation. Causality, however, runs in both directions. What we are able to think is substantially a product of what we are able to represent. Through this lens, the history of architec-ture can also be viewed as a history of representation.

The means by which we look at the world, the ways we gather and interpret informa-tion, the ways we simulate and propose interventions within ecological, social, and aesthetic processes are all directed by the inherent capabilities, limitations, and biases of any chosen mode of representa-tion. Faculty and student work, including coursework, publications, and installations, ranges from focused study of architectural detail and construction methods, to digital fabrication and engagement in communi-ty-based art projects.


Concrete is the most consumed mate-rial in the world, next to water. It is a natural, tactile material, and with recent advances in chemistry, it will have one of the most progressive influences on form and space in architecture. Our research focus will be on Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC). Com-pared to conventional concrete, UHPC can be 10-1000 times stronger and more durable, has a longer life expectancy, and uses fewer natural resources. Con-crete has no inherent form—it is a liquid material, with unprecedented strength and seductive tactile qualities—so we can ask, what architecture can we make

and how can it evolve in collaboration with physical, digital, synthetic or para-metric design?

This research will be conducted as combined studio and hands-on fabrica-tion workshops. We will cast concrete, pour rubber, form fiberglass, bend wood, and get our hands dirty every week. We will explore how design comes from an intimate knowledge of making and how form derives from material.

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Spring 2013 MaterialResearch AgendaAlexander Kitchin


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The built landscape is a product of cultural encounter and exchange, shaped by global networks of connection and by movements of people, goods, and design ideas across shifting geographic, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries. Our faculty’s research endeavors seek to chart these dynamics across varied terrains, from India, China, and South Africa, to the Mediterranean and Caribbean regions, to the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Whether focused on the historical conditions shaping cities and buildings, or keyed to understand-ing current conditions in order to imagine design solutions for the future, these projects share a commitment to charting how local particularities have been shaped by broader interactions and cross-cultural encounters.


The ability to move about the city safely is a necessity for claiming public space. If women are intimidated by harassment or the threat of violence when they venture onto the street, they will limit their own mobility. Women in cities around the world have asserted their rights to travel freely by creating their own form of transportation: the pink taxi.

In Chennai, India, Go For Pink Ladies Call Taxi Service has five women drivers who cater only to women and children. Banet (girl) Taxi in Beirut, Lebanon, has a fleet of candy-pink late-model Peugeots; drivers wear pink ties, and pink flowers in their hair. In 2010, fifteen cars and drivers were offering 24-hour service.

The first pink cabs in Mexico were in the colonial city of Puebla in 2009. Pink Taxi de Puebla boasts thirty-five pink Chevrolet compacts equipped with a GPS system, an alarm button, and a beauty kit. The beauty kit enraged fem-inists, who argued that looking pretty is

far less important than avoiding sexual harassment and violence.

Mexico City soon followed Puebla’s lead; by 2010, pink taxis driven by and for women were roaming its streets. The cabs improve safety for drivers and passengers, both of whom have been subject to physical attacks in regular taxis.

From a feminist perspective the major drawback with pink cabs—in any city—is that they place the burden of accommodation on the victims of male misconduct. There would be no need for women-only vehicles if men behaved with greater civility and respect toward women. But until that happens, women will choose pink taxis when they can.

Excerpted from “A global perspective on gendered cities” in Harry Mall-grave and Timothy Beatley (eds) The Companion to Urban Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).

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Why Women Need Pink TaxisDaphne Spain


I N S T I T U T E F O R EN V I R O N M EN TA L N EG O T I AT I O NThe Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN) works with community organizations, local and state government on a range of community issues, including community visioning, public health, heritage preser-vation, watershed planning, agriculture, transportation, land use and development, recreation, working waterfronts, and public lands issues.

The institute is directed by Frank Dukes. Tanya Denckla Cobb serves as Associate Director. For more information, see ien.arch.virginia.edu


Virginia’s coastal region is at the highest national risk to sea level rise, second only to New Orleans. In 2010, IEN initiated conversations with Virginia’s local coastal governments to explore their needs, which led to IEN facilitating “listening sessions” on sea level rise in the City of Virginia Beach, the first such effort in Virginia’s coastal zone. Building on this effort, this year IEN worked with leaders in three coastal localities to host discussions

on planning tools to address and prepare for sea level rise. The Virginia Sea Grant funded two focus groups, in Virginia Beach and Gloucester County, and one community education event on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. This work builds on the 2011 Virginia Beach Listening Sessions, the results of which can be found at www.virginia.edu/ien/sealevelrise.

Sea Level Rise andCoastal ResilienceEllen Martin

S T U D EN T O P P O R T U N I T I E SExpanding our Global Perspective

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Global perspectives clarify local work by exposing designers, planners, and historians to surprising and creative possibilities. Part-nering with local experts around the world enables us to explore unfamiliar solutions to familiar problems.

But our work in the local is also increasingly entangled in the global. Every built environ-ment is enmeshed in a network of multisca-lar systems: political, material, economic, cultural, etc. To understand architecture, we have to study not just the local context, but also the complex regional and global sys-tems that, in turn, give shape and meaning to the local.

The School’s expanded global focus, inte-grated within our research themes, provides an important opportunity to incorporate the most talented faculty and students from across the world into our own work. As we attract people to the School we also continue to learn from the world’s most exceptional cultures, past and present, and to provide professional service internation-ally where possible. We continue to send a larger percentage of our students overseas than any other School, and we aspire to do still more.

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Since 2002, the School of Architecture at U.Va. has sus-tained a rich and engaging commitment to the community of Falmouth, Jamaica, one of the Caribbean’s most threatened historic townscapes. Founded in the late eighteenth century, and generally bypassed by any industry or economic develop-ment through the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the town is an amazing repository of historic architecture and land-scapes that speak to Jamaica’s importance as a sugar producer, the devastating institution of slavery, the legacy of disenfran-chisement, and the resilience of the Jamaican people.

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The U.Va. Architecture in China program, held in collaboration with the School of Architecture of Nanjing University, explores urban futures of the world through an immersive experience in Chinese cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students with strong interests in design and architecture, from the University of Virginia and from other universities.

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The five-year India Initiative speculates about the foundations of architectural thinking in a context beyond the familiar. While applying a perspective at two scales of dwelling—the emergent megacity and the enduring village—we will make connec-tions between cultural practices that persist today and are far removed from our own. Each year focuses on one of the panchabhu-ta or five building blocks of the universe: water, fire, earth, air and ether. The research program is comprised of 3 interdependent courses that total 12 credits. Each year the India Initiative will produce an exhibit and publication of research findings and projects.

The Venice Semester Abroad Program is a new fall option for third and fourth year students in the Architecture Department, Architectural History and Planning. Opportunities for graduate student participation are being developed. Courses count directly for U.Va. credit, and financial aid packages apply. The program includes courses in architectural design, drawing, urban, art and architectural history, and Venetian building traditions, taught by U.Va. faculty in collabora-tion with Venetian faculty. Housing is in shared apartments.

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The Switzerland summer program focuses on three areas: urban planning in Europe; local solutions to water supply, use, and risk; and European approaches to sustain-able urban transport.

The program is housed in Riva San Vitale, a small, picturesque town in the Ticino Canton, the Italian region of Switzerland. The program includes classroom sessions in Riva San Vitale, one overnight trip, and two day trips in the region.

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During the month of June, students are introduced to Italian culture through the study of architecture, landscape architec-ture, and city planning, in Vicenza, a sophisticated small city settled by the Romans and containing major works by Andrea Palladio and Carlo Scarpa. Both the formal ideals as well as the constructed reality of these three subjects will be studied through critical observation and documentation of universal conditions and critical junctures. Exploratory field trips by rail and bus of the Venetan region will extend from Verona in the west to Treviso in the east and the Venetian lagoon north into the pre-Alps.


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T H E D E W S T U D I O I N B A R C EL O N AThe Dew Studio is a unique collaborative joint initiative between the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in which graduate students and faculty from both departments work together on common studio topics. After several years addressing urgent matters in New Orleans, the studio has recently returned to Barcelona, a city with a deep architectural, urban and landscape tradi-tion with which the School of Architecture has a long-standing relationship. This relationship has been recently reinvigorated by the new Spanish faculty in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, who are among the most import-ant designers from that city.

As a traveling studio led by U.Va. faculty who have made their early careers in Barcelona, the studio is directly connected with the best practitioners, top adminis-trators and planners in the city, and highly recognized local scholars and educational institutions. Moreover, this connection allows us to tackle the most relevant topics and to participate in the intellectual dialogue that takes place through publications and exhibitions.


S EM E S T ER AT S E AEarly in the 21st century, the earth’s population became more urban than rural, launching a new “urban millennium.” Simultaneously, many nations realized that a radical disruption of the world’s climate is inevitable, and adaption to this crisis is necessary. Not surprisingly, the communities that have already experienced the impact of climate change are found in the most extreme climates and in low-lying coastal cities with expanding informal communities for the urban poor.

These issues stand in the foreground of many research programs at the School of Architecture. In order to facilitate research and data collection on these issues, the School of Architecture, in partnership with U.Va.’s Semester at Sea program and local universities and NGOs, has launched the Urban Dynamics Research Initiative, a research and teaching initiative engaging the myriad, interwoven challenges facing the world’s port cities.

Within the framework of this program, each Spring voyage includes a faculty member from the School of Architecture who will teach a research seminar entitled Resilient Communities, a class framed around critical readings and intensive on-site data collection. This faculty will be joined by other built-environment oriented faculty to provide a concentration of classes on each spring voyage that focus on architecture and urbanism. Through established relationships with local partners in each port city, U.Va. and Semester at Sea are collaborating to better understand and prepare for the new “urban millennium.”


The Department of Architectural History offers second-year M.A. students the opportunity to study at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London during the fall semester. Students enroll in the fall term of the Courtauld’s M.A. program in architectural history, which runs from early October until mid-December. Dr. Christine Stevenson is the director of the program, which focuses on modernity and antiquity in British architecture. Several site visits are also included in the program. Students may also study medieval architecture with Dr. Tom Nickson and Italian Renaissance architecture with Dr. Georgia Clarke.

The U.Va. School of Architecture Extern Program allows current undergraduate and graduate students at any level and in any discipline—architectural history, architecture, landscape architecture, or urban and environmental planning—to explore a career interest in a realistic learning environment outside of the classroom. More than 100 students were placed in externships last year.

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“In January 2012, I completed an externship at Thomas Phifer and Partners in New York City that was facilitated by the U.Va. School of Architecture. This was an especially formative experience because I had just finished my first semester of architecture coursework as a graduate student and had no prior experience in the discipline. Furthermore, my colleagues in the School of Architecture en-couraged me to take advantage of this opportunity whereby I was able to work with alumni Adam Ruffin (M Arch ‘02) and Steve Dayton (BArch ‘82).

During my week at Thomas Phifer and Partners, I observed the daily operations of their office and assisted with one of their recent projects, The Corning Museum of Glass. I was also exposed to many facets of the discipline; I worked on models, prepared material samples, and attended meetings. Overall, it was a great experi-ence, and I thank the School of Architecture as well as Thomas Phifer and Partners for the tre-mendous opportunity.”

-Paul Golisz, M.Arch ‘14


Participating students spend one week with sponsoring firms and organizations across the country during Winter Break. Depending upon the individual’s level of experience, an extern’s duties can range from true job shadowing to building a model, to helping prepare competition boards and renderings, to sitting in on city planning or client meetings, or attending site visits. Any activity that can help provide exposure to the student’s field of interest is considered valuable extern experience. Students have participated in extern-ships with some of the nation’s top design offices including ARO, Arquitectonica, BIG, Morphosis, OLIN, Olson Kundig, OMA/AMO, SCAPE, Snohetta, Studio Gang, Thomas Phifer and Partners, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien.

There are approximately 25 merit-based fellowships awarded to graduate students across the four disciplines. The awards, which vary in amount, are awarded by the Department Chairs based on application merit and/or program performance, renewable during the typical length of the graduate program and require no additional work responsibility by the recipient.

The School of Architecture offers numerous summer travel fellow-ships which are awarded to students in all four disciplines. Awards, which are granted by committee or appointees of the Associate Dean of Research and are based on submitted applications, include: the Sarah McArthur Nix Traveling Fellowship, the Carlo Pelliccia Fellowship, and the Benjamin C. Howland Traveling Fellowship.

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The Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds are comprised of several new and ren-ovated facilities, including a restored Fayerweather Hall (Art History), renovated galleries in the Fralin Art Museum, studio art spaces, and the W.G. Clark-designed renovation and expansion of the School of Architecture’s Campbell Hall. Planned additions to the Arts Grounds also include a new music rehearsal hall, a museum expan-sion, and the Arts Common: a centralized and shared space reflecting the communal spirit of the Academical Village as well as the newest collaborations across schools and departments.

Final Fridays is a monthly showcase of the Arts at U.Va highlighting exhibits, perfor-mances, and lectures on Arts Grounds and across the University. The Fralin Art Museum, Ruffin Gallery, The School of Architecture, The Fine Arts Library, and The Garden at Eunoia offer monthly receptions and gallery talks in conjunction with their exhibits. Music performances, Drama per-formances, and Creative Writing readings often join the line-up.

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Campbell Hall serves as the School of Architecture central facility. The upper two floors provide studio space and new faculty offices, while the second floor contains the majority of administrative offices, review space, and the digital visualization lab. The first floor houses lecture halls, Planning and Architectural History student lounges, the woodshop, the A & A supply store, the Fine Arts Café, and class-rooms. There are also outdoor teaching spaces.

The term Studio describes a place. At U.Va.’s School of Architecture this place occupies most of the third and fourth floors of Campbell Hall. The term is also applied to a series of courses, undergraduate and graduate, central to the curriculum of all designers within the School. Lastly, the term can be said to describe a mode of working or attitude.

“I am going to studio,” can mean the person is headed to their table (i.e.,workplace), or to a collection of tables. It may mean they are headed to class. But more often it means the individual, or class section, is going to work. It is no surprise the “studio model” is the one on which most design offices—from the one-person atelier to the 400-person corporate office—base their physical environment and productive interaction upon given the proven potential for success from this mode of working.

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Descriptors most often used to depict studio are laboratory, open, messy, dense, workshop, swamp/meat-locker, positive, vital, noisy, and intense. Teaching verbs most often used are consider, include, try, wonder, think, edit, and address.

Studio is an educational anomaly and an enigma. Teaching is done there, but it is not a classroom. Practice happens there, but it is not a field. Production happens there, but it is not a factory. Studio is both personal space and civic space. Students manage to work for their own benefit and for the benefit of the collective—from classmates to the community.

FABRIC AT IONFrom small-scale massing models to full-scale building details, from prototype furniture to finished houses put back into the community, the SARC Shops are laboratories for thinking through making both in the analog and the digital realm. Through courses, workshops, and interdisciplinary projects, the Shops focus on pushing the boundaries of technology, tools, and material research.

The SARC Shops are in a consortium with the Arts Grounds Shops that include the Scene Shops at the Drama Department and the Shops at McIntire Department of Art. Students trained at one of the three are welcome to schedule time for additional training and use the shared Shops facilities. Shops Short Courses (SSCs) are short, usually one-day workshops in specific tools and techniques

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The Woodshop and CNC Lab are fully equipped with tools for tra-ditional or analog woodworking and digital fabrication, including a 5’x10’ Onsrud 3 Axis CNC Router, a Techno 3 Axis CNC Router, two Universal Laser Cutters, a Stratasys Dimension ABS 3D Printer, a Denford MicroMill 2000, and a 3D Digitizer and 3D Laser Scanner. The Shops also have a fleet of sewing machines, including a Bernina 830 Embroidery Machine for CNC Sewing.

The extension of the school’s shops at the Milton Airport Facility has a fully equipped woodshop and space for full-scale prototyping and design/build projects.

In spring 2013, the School of Architecture acquired a professional digital printing press (Canon ImagePress C1), perfect binder, and me-chanical paper stack cutter. This professional equipment is available to student and faculty research groups working on publications, research documentation, and School-wide initiatives.

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L I V I N G IN CH AR LOT T E SV IL L ENestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville is a sophisticated community that is strengthened by the University and University-related activities. For those interested in music there is the Chamber Music Series, the Charlottesville and University Symphony, and during the summers, “Fridays After 5” on the Downtown Mall.

The Downtown Mall itself, a vibrant pedestrian zone, is a Lawrence Halprin-designed space, providing shopping, dining, and a number of formal and informal entertainment venues that draw performers from around the world. The Mall’s outdoor pavillion has featured artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Dierks Bentley, Wilco, Daughtry, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Counting Crows, SOJA and Matisyahu, Pretty Lights, Girl Talk, and more.

Theater also has a major place in the com-munity. In addition to the productions of the Department of Drama, events include the Virginia Film Festival, the Heritage Repertory Theatre, and the summer Opera Festival at Ash Lawn. Other annual events that take place downtown are the LOOK3

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Photography Festival and the Virginia Festival of the Book.The University’s John Paul Jones Arena seats 16,000 and hosts a wide variety of sporting events as well as nationally prominent music and entertainment groups. Past concerts include Jay-Z, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean, Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer, and Michael Franti, Lada Gaga, The Dave Matthews Band and the Lumineers.

Recreational opportunities abound in Charlottesville, from tubing on the James River to hiking and biking in the mountains, from tailgating at football games to roller derby and arm wrestling leagues.

Charlottesville is in close proximity to major centers of the arts. Just a two-hour drive north, Washington, D.C. houses the superb collec-tions of the National Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Corcoran Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, as well as the museum and library at Dumbarton Oaks. Baltimore is three hours away and offers the Baltimore Museum and the Walters Art Gallery. Just one hour east in Richmond is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, one of the few state-sponsored art museums in this country, which possesses an excellent collection with particular strengths in ancient, medieval, Renaissance, American, and modern French art.

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Students play critical roles in shaping the life of the school, hosting guest lecturers, serving on school search and adminis-trative committees, and organizing their own calendar of social and educational programs.

LUNCH is the School’s student design journal (whose name comes from the notion of informal exchanges over a shared meal), which has served as an important venue of dialogue and design issues within and outside of the school. Currently in its 9th edition, LUNCH is edited by a multi-dis-ciplinary team of students and faculty advisors. It presents research and design projects from across the school, as well as the work of professionals and students from outside the university. Visit www.uvalunch.com to learn more.

SNACKS is a new student enterprise. These are short-run publications created through-out the year, providing coverage of the array of internationally-known speakers that visit and present workshops at our school. Each issue is an artifact which allows students short-term, creative experience with pub-lishing and book craft.

SALA, The Student Alliance of Landscape Architects, organizes social events for the student community, as well as its own programing. In 2012, their Post.Press. Blot. Blogging as Design symposium brought in

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the country’s leading bloggers to discuss new ways of communica-tion and networking. In 2013, they are focusing on the relationship of politics and design. With a mission to engage with communities as part of their formal education, SALA also sponsors volunteer workdays with Habitat for Humanity, the Boys & Girls Club, and with a local retirement home, where students will redesign the grounds.

SAGA, The Student Association of Graduate Architects, acts as a link between faculty and students within the Department of Architecture. Through this role SAGA organizes the annual Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecture, an ongoing design film series, and student conver-sations with guest lecturers. Through SAGA students also engage in department curricular reviews and faculty searches.

Graduate Architecture and Landscape Architecture (GALA) seeks to create a vibrant community of Architecture and Landscape Architecture graduate students. They host events that encourage both departments to interact in a variety of situations beyond the purely academic realm. Whimsical competitions and joyful gatherings are conceived as a way to see each other and the world through a refreshing lens.

In addition, students recreate outside the studios and classrooms of Campbell Hall, organizing intramural basketball, frisbee, and soccer along with many school-wide social activities.

SPA, the Student Planners Association, is a student-run organiza-tion that represents graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. SPA organizes lectures by urban planning scholars and professionals, which are open to the entire School of Architecture. These lectures provide students with both a greater academic understanding and a better idea of careers in the field. In addition to academic initiatives, SPA organizes Bagel Breakfasts for School of Architecture students; plans workshops and field trips, including the “100 Mile Thanksgiving” for planning students and faculty; provides financial assistance to students who wish to attend academic conferences; and organizes social events for planning and School of Architecture students.

We are also home to the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of SAH, the only student chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians. This group organizes events, guest lectures, field trips to local sites, and provides students the opportunity to present their work.

E V E N T SLectures, Symposia, and Exhibits

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L E C T U R E S , S Y M P O S I A , A N D E X H I B I T SThe School of Architecture hosts countless lectures, symposia, and exhibits year-round, drawing leaders in architectural thought and practice, distinguished lecturers, and compelling exhibits. Recently, SARC has hosted lectures by:

Tod Williams (Tod Williams, Billie Tsien Architects), India Initiative, Sept. 14, 2012

Adam Yarinsky (Architecture Research Office), HOK Lecture in Sustainable Design, Nov. 12, 2012

Ramon Prat (ACTAR PUBLISHER),Feb. 1-2, 2013

Matthias Hollwich (HWKN), Michael Owen Jones Lecture Feb. 4, 2013

Iñaki Ábalos & Renata Sentkiewicz (Abalos-Sentkiewicz Arquitectos & Harvard GSD),Feb. 25, 2013

Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture (2013: Laurie D. Olin FASLA)

Woltz Symposium. Feb. 8-9, 2013

Jaquelin T. Robertson Visiting Professorship in Architecture (2013: Adriaan Geuze, West 8)

After the Deluge, Exhibition and Dialogues, Jan. 30-March 29, 2013

Contemplation and Medicine in South Asia and Beyond, April 6, 2013 David Gissen (CA College of the Arts),Sept. 23, 2013 Doug Reed and Gary Hilderbrand (Reed-Hilderbrand), Oct. 25, 2013 Biophilic Cities Launch, Oct. 17, 2013 Helen Dorey (Sir John Soane’s Museum),Nov. 4, 2013

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Water defines the blue planet, Earth. but its distribution is uneven and unfair. Parts of the planet receive less or more rainfall, leading to deserts and rain forests, each with inventive human adaptations. Yet with today’s rapid changes—population increases and mass migrations, deforestation and erosion, and catastrophic weather events—water can amplify this desta-bilization. Many of the world’s poorest people live in flooding deltas; others drink polluted water; and millions walk miles daily to find it. Yet at the same time, hurricanes do not avoid wealthy communities, polluted or drying aqui-fers serve the rich and poor alike, floods ravage lakeside vacation homes, and tidal surges wash out everything at the water’s edge.

How can we imagine the blue planet in equilibrium, with adequate water where we need it, when we need it? How can we re-imagine the theoretical and physical construction of adaptive water

infrastructures, equitable distribution systems, and daily individual practices?

At the School of Architecture we focus on water in our daily actions, in our teaching, and through our research. From the rain garden at Campbell Hall, designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz as part of the Campbell Constructions, to a study-abroad program in India and a recent alumni project based in Cape Town, Ghana, to a longtime focus on coastal resilience and clean water, faculty, students, staff, and alumni have concentrated on the importance of water on the blue planet. During the 2012-13 academic year we further con-centrated our efforts on water, through ongoing coursework and a special series of lectures, exhibits, and an all-school charette on Charlottesville’s Rivanna River.

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Observing how water changes the landscape, Leonardo DaVinci was pre-sented with the vexing visual problem of speed. Perceiving phenomena that are fleetingly transient or impercep-tibly gradual led Leonardo to diver-gent modes of representation, one analytical, the other poetic. In his study of water and the landscape it creates, Leonardo records—and transforms—his firsthand observations through his drawing practice.

Dialogue 1: Reimagining Leonardo’s Legacy

Keynote: Leslie Geddes, PhD can-didate, Princeton University. Panel: Matthew Reidenbach, Dept. of Envi-ronmental Science, Hossein Haj-Hariri, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Aero-nautic and Mechanical Engineering, Francesca Fiorani, Dept. of Art History, Nana Last, Dept. of Architecture

Dialogue 2: The Rising

Keynote: Matthew Burtner, Department of Music, Composition and Computer

After the Deluge

Technologies, U.Va.. Panel: Matthew Jull and Leena Cho, School of Archi-tecture, Iñaki Alday, Elwood R Quesada Professor of Architecture and Chair, School of Architecture, Pat Wiberg, Environmental Science

Dialogue 3: The Contaminated

Keynote: Brandon Ballengèe, Ph.D can-didate, University of Plymouth, artist and biologistPanel: Phoebe Crisman, Dept. of Archi-tecture, Director of Global Sustainabil-ity program, Jim Smith, Civil Engi-neering, Rebecca Dillingham, Director Center for Global Health

Dialogue 4: The Disappearing

Keynote: Margaret Ross Tolbert, artist and environmentalist. Panel: Brian Richter, The Nature Conservan-cy, Paolo D’Odorico, Environmental Science, Janet Herman, Environmental Science.

Image (top left): Exhibit, AQUIFERious VIRGINIA,

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For three days at the end of October, the A-School hosted urban and environ-mental planners, designers, elected official, students, and others with an interst in planning and designing for nature in cities to celebrate the launch of the international Biophilic Cities network.

Stephen R. Kellert, of the Yale Univer-sity School of Forestry, and Jennifer Wolch, of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, delivered the keynote addresses. These were followed by a wealth of presentations, Q&A, networking, an ant safari, a canoe trip and more.

Participants travelled from New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, and across the United States, kicking off what promises to be a groundswell of support, networking, and community for these important initiatives.

Read more about the launch events, and about what’s next for Biophilic Cities, at www.biophiliccities.org

Image (bottom right): by Jennifer Andresen

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Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited 35 esteemed colleagues with whom they feel connected —including such luminaries as Pete Zumthor, Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, Stephen Holl, and U.Va.’s own W.G. Clark—to select objects of inspiration and place them in a simple wood box or “chest.” Thir-ty-three chests originated in Williams and Tsien’s New York City office and travel around the world collecting these pieces of “information” before arriving in Venice. In Venice, the chests and objects become a collection, a tapestry of the commonalities and differences they share as architects and artists. The collection will be housed in the Casa Scaffali in the northeast garden (Giardino delle Virgin) of the Arsenale site, chosen by Williams and Tsien as a wunderkammer for their 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture project.

W.G. Clark says, “This box doesn’t contain references to architecture so much as references to earth. Much of the collection comprises fossils collect-ed by me in South Carolina along with found Native American pottery shards.

There are vials containing pebbles, more small fossils, sea glass and soil. A globe of the earth is included as are 20 calendar notebooks representing 20 years of teaching architecture. Crayons represent a love of drawing from an early age. The books largely represent ethical positions that I’ve admired. Bob Dylan is included because of his influence on our lives; Highway 61 Revisited is when everything changed, including me.

Mounted images include my grand-mother and places that have been very important. The digital recorder plays a continuous loop of a mockingbird song whose intrepid inventiveness never ceases to amaze me. It’s poignant and always new each time you hear it.

And there’s the waving cat...”

Biennale Box:W.G. Clark’s CollectionW.G. Clark

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EN D O W ED V I S I T I N G P R O F E S S O R S H I P S A N D L E C T U R E S

ENDOWED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

Harry Porter, Jr.Visiting Professor2004 Diana Balmori2007 Stephen Cassell2008 Peter Newman2009 Stefan Behnisch2010 Kate John-Alder2012 Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Jaquelin T. Robertson Visiting Professorship in Architecture2009 Vishaan Charkrabarti2011 Lionel Deulieger2012 Eduardo Arroyo2013 Adriaan Geuze

Harry S. Shure Visiting Professorship1987 Demetri Porphyrios1989 Peter Waldman1990 Rudy Hunziker1991 Merrill Elam1992 Amy Weinstein1993 Robert Mangurian1994 Andrea Leers1995 Eugene Kupper1996 Adele Naude Santos1997 Samuel Mockbee1998 Anthony Ames1998 Maryann Thompson and Charles Rose1999 William Williams2000 Frano Violich and Sheila Kennedy

2001 Adam Yarinsky and Stephen Sassell2002 Kathryn Dean and Charles Wolf2004 Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP2005 Michael Rotondi2006 Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch2007 Simon Allford and Paul Monaghan2009 Bryan Bell2010 Merrill Elam2011 Pankaj Gupta

ENDOWED LECTURES

Benjamin C. Howland Jr.Memorial Lecture1984 Russell E. Dickinson1985 William Penn Mott, Jr.1986 Walter A. Netsch1987 William H. Whyte1988 Joseph P. Riley, Jr.1989 Grant Jones1991 Nathan Glazer1992 Charles Birnbaum1993 Orrin H. Pilkey1995 William Cronon1996 Frederick Steiner1997 Lawrence Buell1998 Michael Pollan1999 William Wenk

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2000 Richard Haag2001 Ethan Carr2002 Sebastien Marot2003 Anne Whiston Spirn2004 Shlomo Aronson2005 Elizabeth Barlow Rogers2006 Mia Lehrer2007 Majora Carter2008 John G. Parsons2009 Christine Dalnoky2009 Margarita Jover and Iñaki Alday2010 John G. Parsons2011 Steven Handel2012 Kate Orff

Hanbury, Evans, Wright, Vlattas & Co. Endowed Lecture2004 Dr. Martin Cherry2007 David Fixler2009 Richard Moe2012 Stephen Kieran2012 Sir Michael Hopkins

Michael Owen JonesMemorial Lecture1993 Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi1994 Catherine Brown1995 Karen Berman1996 William F. Conway

1997 Charles Rose and Maryann Thompson1998 Brigitte Shim1999 Sheila Kennedy2000 Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani2001 Lewis, Tsurumaki, Lewis2002 LOT/EK2003 Ravee Choksombatchai2004 Bryan Bell2005 Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels2006 Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks2007 Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott2009 Blair Satterfield2010 Marc Swackhamer2011 Eva Franch2012 Enric Ruiz-Geli

Myles H. Thaler Lecture 1990 Ian McHarg1992 Roberto Burle-Marx1994 Martha Schwartz1996 Adriaan Geuze1997 Mario Schjetnan1998 Peter and Anneliese Latz1999 Kathryn Gustafson2000 Cornelia Oberlander2001 Beth Gali2002 Ken Smith2003 Denis Cosgrove

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2004 Michael Van Valkenburgh2005 Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods2006 Kongjian Yu2007 Thomas Saxgard and Ingbritt Liljekvist2008 Christophe Girot2009 Dirk Sijmons2010 Anton James, Perry Lethlean and Julian Raxworthy2011 Ronald Rietvelt2012 Warren T. Byrd and Thomas Woltz2013 Doug Reed and Gary Hilderbrand

THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION

Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture1966 Mies van der Rohe1967 Alvar Aalto1968 Marcel Breurer1969 John Ely Burchard1970 Kenzo Tange1971 Jose Luis Sert1972 Lewis Mumford1973 Jean Labatut1974 Frei Otto1975 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner1976 I.M. Pei1977 Ada Louise Huxtable1978 Philip Johnson1979 Lawrence Halprin 1980 Hugh A. Stubbins

1981 Edward Larabee Barnes1982 Vincent Scully1983 Robert Venturi1984 H. H. The Aga Khan1985 Leon Krier1986 James Stirling1987 Romaldo Giurgola1988 Dan Kiley1989 Paul Mellon1990 Fumihiko Maki1991 John V. Lindsay1992 Aldo Rossi1993 Andres M. Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk1994 Frank O. Gehry1995 Ian L. McHarg1996 Jane Jacobs1997 Jaime Lerner1998 Jaquelin T. Robertson1999 Lord Richard Rogers2000 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan2001 Glenn Murcutt2002 James Turrell2003 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien2004 Peter Walker2005 Shigeru Ban 2006 Peter Zumthor2007 Zaha Hadid2008 Gro Harlem Brundtland2009 Robert Irwin 2010 Edward O. Wilson2011 Maya Lin2012 Rafael Moneo2013 Laurie Olin

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Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professorship in Architecture1966 Pietro Belluschi1966 Felix Candela1967 O’Neil Ford1967 Ralph Rapson1968 Marcel Breuer1969 John Ely Burchard1960 Alan Y. Taniguchi1960 Robert L. Vickery1971 Jose Luis Sert1972 Lewis Mumford1973 Jean Labatut1974 Anderson Todd1975 Alexander Cochran1975 Peter Faller1976 Shivnath Prasad1977 Lawrence Anderson1978 Norman C. Fletcher1078 Theodore Waddell1979 Giorgio Bellavitis1979 Harry Seidler1970 Romaldo Giurgola1970 Hugh A. Stubbins1981 Robert B. Marquis1981 Edward Larrabee Barnes1982 Barton Myers1983 Leon Krier1984 Joseph Passonneau

1984 Colin Rowe1985 Edward Logue1985 Demetri Porphyrios1986 Michael Dennis1986 H.H.P. Van Ginkel1988 Dan Kiley1989 Henry Smith-Miller1980 Tod Williams1991 Kenneth Frampton1992 Rodolfo Machado1993 Laurie Olin1994 Adele Santos1995 Werner Seligman1996 Vincent Scully1997 Michael Graves1998 Glenn Murcutt1999 William Mitchell2000 William Morrish2001 William Bruder2002 Juhani Pallasmaa2003 Rick Mather2004 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien2005 Michael Vergason2006 Robert L. Pressey2007 Elias Torres2008 Kathryn Moore2011 Marlon Blackwell

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R E C EN T ALUMN I A C C O M P L I S H M EN T S

Melissa KeywoodMUEPReceived 2012 Walter B Jones Award for Excellence in Coastal and Ocean Management

Lauren HackneyBS Arch ’05, M Arch ’11, MLA ’11Member of the winning design team at PWP for Constitution Gardens

Alexa BushMLA’12Honor Award AIA|DCUnbuilt Competition Award for San Francisco Waterfront

Marilyn MoedingerBS Arch ‘05, M Arch ‘10Winner of 2010 SOM Prize

Randall WinstonM Arch’11Co-winner of Los Angeles Greentech Corridor Competition

Kristen SparenborgMAH’13Preservation CertificateCo-author of Lost Communities of Virginia, winner of Pelliccia Fellowship

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-Architecture Research Office (ARO)-Behnisch Architekten-BIG | Bjarke Ingles Group -FxFowle Architects-Gehry Partner, LLD-Gensler-HKS-HOK-Kieran Timberlake Architects-Lake Flato Architects-LTT-Michael Vergason Landscape Architect-Miller Hull-Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architecture-Oehme, Van Sweden & Assoc., Inc.-Olin Partnership-Perkins + Will-Richard Meier & Partners (RTKL)-SHoP Architects

A LUMN I F IR M SSchool of Architecture graduates are prepared for a variety of careers in firms and offices around the world. Some of the places you’ll find our alumni working include:

-Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-Smith Group-SNOHETTA-Studio Gang Architects-The Nature Conservancy-The SWA Group-The Trust for Public Land-Thomas Phifer and Associates-Tod Williams & Billie Tsien Architects-TOSHIKO Mori Architects-U.S. Commision of Fine Arts-U.S. Department of Energy-U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development-Urban Land Institute-Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation-VMDO Architects, P.C.-Weiss Manfred Architects-William McDonough + Partners

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“What are you up to at the moment?”Randall Winston; M Arch, 2011“I’m an appointee in the office of California’s Governor Jerry Brown, working on his energy & environmental team. My projects include helping to implement an executive order on green buildings for existing and new buildings, which established the most aggressive green building standards in the nation; implementing new in-frastructure and planning codes & standards for electric vehicles; and helping to craft a policy framework for local governments to use smart grid data for sustainable urban planning.”

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“Why did you decide to attend U.V.a?”Lauren Hackney; BS Arch, 2005; M Arch, 2011; MLA, 2011“I was excited to come back to U.Va. for graduate school for many reasons—teaching opportunities, and of course the ease of scripting and working through both degrees and figuring out their overlaps—but primarily I wanted to come back to work with the extraordinary faculty. They are so well-versed in their re-spective disciplines, but so enthusiastic about working across disciplines and learning along with their stu-dents, which creates a really unique ethic of collabora-tion, exploration, and value for complexity (of issues, of disciplines, of processes, of ways of working) at U.Va. that crosses disciplines and sets the school apart from schools around the country.”

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Abbasy-Asbagh has taught graduate and undergraduate studios at the Catholic University of American and the Career Discovery program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her academic interests have revolved around the operative role of the diagram and its translations as a design tool in the past two decades of contemporary architecture.

Alday is the Quesada Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture. Together with Margarita Jover, he is the found-er in Barcelona of aldayjover architecture and landscape, an internationally awarded firm that faces works of public architecture and landscape with a common approach to the specific character of the place.

Ghazal Abbasy-AsbaghLecturer

Iñaki Alday SanzQuesada Professor; Chair, Department of Architecture Manuel Bailo founded BAIL-

ORULL ADD+ in Barcelona in 1995 with Rosa Rull. Their work includes a wide range of proj-ects, moving from urban scale to interiorism, and has been shown at MOMA and awarded the prestigious international Contracworld Award. They have also received the First “Annual Commercial Space Award” in China 2011. And they have received the prestigious Spanish Award FAD twice.

Manuel Bailo EsteveAssociate Professor

Black received her BFA degree in drawing and painting from Washington University and MFA from Pratt Institute. She teaches free hand drawing with an emphasis on “finding accuracy in expression,” a phrase which captures many years of her own creative practices.

Pam BlackDistinguished Lecturer

Daniel BluestoneProfessor; Director, Historic Preservation ProgramBluestone is a specialist in 19th century American architecture. His award-winning books include Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory, exploring the changing nature and politics of historic preservation, and Constructing Chicago, an archi-tectural history of 19th century Chicago. His preservation and community advocacy has won numerous national awards.

Brothers specializes in Italian Renaissance Architecture. Her research and publications focus on architectural drawing, artistic exchange around the Mediterra-nean, Renaissance theories of architecture and literature, and interaction between the practic-es of painting, architecture and sculpture.

Cammy BrothersAssociate Professor, Valmarana Chair, Program Director of the Venice Program

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Canfora’s work centers on the advancement of the craft of building and the people for whom buildings are made who are part of a broader audience than the profession has tradi-tionally engaged. He founded Initiative reCOVER in 2007 to bring together academic, civic, and professional organizations to work collaboratively to benefit the common good.

Anselmo CanforaAssociate Professor

Bargmann is internationally recognized as an innovative designer of post-industrial sites (Rome Prize, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, Urban Edge Award). Her work at D.I.R.T. studio is driven by a love for the landscape, fascination with site histories, concern for marginalized communities and an obsession with urban regeneration.

Julie BargmannAssociate Professor

Ellen BassettAssociate Professor

Bassett is an Associate Profes-sor in Urban and Environmental Planning. Her areas of research interest are land use planning, climate change, health/built environment, and international development. Her current research projects are focused on climate change and its impact upon urban areas and vulnerable populations such as slum dwellers.

Much of Beatley’s work focuses on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places.

Timothy BeatleyTeresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities; Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning

Burrell is a designer, award winning author and educator. He teaches Natural Systems and Plant Ecology, which intro-duces students to the structure, function, and dynamics of plant communities. Academic interests focus on origins of vernacular design traditions and avenues for ecological innova-tion within urban and suburban matrixes.

C. Cole BurrellLecturer

Robert Carter is a Lecturer in the Department of Architectural History.

Robert CarterLecturer

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Cho holds M.L.A. with Distinction from Harvard GSD. Her office, Kutonotuk, explores new spatial hybrids of dynamic geopolitical and ecological systems. Most recently her work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale and, under the name of TempAgency, was a runner-up for MoMA PS1 YAP 2013. Her work is published internationally including in Domus and Topos.

Leena ChoLecturer

Clark studied architecture at the University of Virginia. He has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and U.Va. He has won major architectural competitions and has received three National Awards from the American Institute of Architects. He was included in “40 Under 40” by the Architectural League of New York and twice listed in Time Magazine as one of America’s best designers.

W.G. ClarkEdmund Schureman Campbell Professor Of Architecture

Richard C. CollinsLawrence Lewis Jr. Professor Emeritus; Founder, Institute for Environmental Negotiation

Collins has written numerous articles in urban and environ-mental planning and policy as well as on aspects of environ-mental decision. He has worked with many federal agencies, and is involved with the state Water Control Board, Department of Health, Department of Waste Management, Council on the Environment, and Chesapeake Bay Commission.

Dripps teaches within the studio design sequence, lectures on architectural theory, and directs a seminar on the relationship between design intent and detail manifestation. The ACSA honored her teaching with its Distinguished Professorship Award in 1992.

Robin DrippsT. David-Gibson Professor Of Architecture

Dukes designs dispute reso-lution and public participation processes, mediates and facilitates, teaches and trains, and conducts research. He is the winner of the 2012 Sharon M. Pickett Award for Environmental Conflict Resolution, presented by the Association for Conflict Resolution.

Frank DukesLecturer; Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation With a background in both ar-

chitecture and engineering, and 20+ years in applied information technology, Field teaches, de-velops, and applies research in design informatics, computation, visualization, and simulation of the built environment. He is Founder and Director of U.Va.’s Insight Lab—a design technolo-gy and visualization research lab.

Eric M. FieldApplied and Advanced Technologies

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Sheila CraneAssociate Professor

Crane is the author of Mediterra-nean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). She teaches the history and theory of modern architecture and cities, and her publications have explored memory in postwar and postcolonial contexts, informality as a terrain of archi-tectural investigation, and how cities are shaped by everyday spatial practices.

Crisman has received numerous awards for her research and teaching focused on the theory and design of sustainable archi-tecture and urbanism. Educated at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Carnegie Mellon, she is a licensed Architect and principal of Crisman+Petrus Architects.

Phoebe CrismanAssociate Professor

Tanya Denckla CobbLecturer

Denckla Cobb is an experienced mediator who facilitates a broad range of community issues; a teacher of food systems plan-ning, group facilitation, conflict resolution and collaborative problem-solving; and author of Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing the Way We Eat.

Firehock has worked in the environmental field for 26 years. She teaches courses in landscape scale and site scale green infrastructure planning and design. She directs the Green Infrastructure Center. Her students work on projects across Virginia and have won numerous awards for this work.

Karen FirehockLecturer

Ford is the author of The Details of Modern Architecture (MIT, 1990, German edition: Birkhaus-er, 1994, Japanese Edition: Maruzen, 2000) and The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 2 (MIT, 1996, Japanese Edition: Maruzen, 2000).

Edward FordVincent And EleanorShea Professor

Galí-Izard is principal of ARQUI-TECTURA AGRONOMIA, a firm involved in the most important Landscape Architecture projects in Europe, which explores design through dynamics and management. Author of “The Same Landscapes. Ideas and interpretations” GG 2005, she collaborates with FOA, AZPA, NOMAD, Rogers SH&Partners, and Abalos-Sentkiewicz.

Teresa Galí-IzardAssociate Professor; Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture

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In her role as Fabrication Facilities Manager, Goldman advances the school’sapproach to fabrication that integrates design with new and traditional methods. Sheis responsible for running all fab-rication facilities, including the woodshop, the CNC facilities, and the Milton facility.

Melissa GoldmanFabrication Facilities Manager

Maggie Guggenheimer is a Lecture in Arts Administration.

Maggie GuggenheimerLecturer

Kendra Hamilton is a Lecturer in the Institute for Environmental Negotiation.

Kendra HamiltonLecturer

Satyendra HujaLecturer

Huja is the President of Commu-nity Planning Associates, focusing on planning, design, development, and management consulting. He was Director of Strategic Planning for the City of Charlottesville from 1998 to 2004. Prior to that he was Direc-tor of Planning and Community Development for the City of Charlottesville for 25 years.

Iliescu’s professional work spans the fields of architecture and art. After receiving her MA from Princeton University, she practiced architecture in New Jersey and taught architectural design at Princeton and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She concentrates her recent professional work in fine arts.

Sanda IliescuAssociate Professor

Jacobs is a Lecturer in Land-scape Architecture, teaching Professional Practice to third year students. She taught previ-ously at Rutgers University and U.Va. and is a licensed landscape architect currently practicing with large multi-disciplinary teams of professionals in land-scape architecture, specializing in historic sites and cultural landscapes.

Jane JacobsLecturer

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Hawkins brings her experience as a designer at Nelson Byrd Woltz and as a graduate of the department of Landscape Architecture to her teaching on landscape representation, setting a foundation for students to develop a personal and holistic method of working across physical and digital media to develop and communicate design ideas.

Chloe HawkinsLecturer

Following the completion of his PhD, Huang first served as a research fellow at Cornell and then came to teach at the University. His courses include a survey of World Buddhist architecture, a seminar on urban development in East Asia since WWII, and East-West architecture. His research focuses on cross-cultural issues and architectural interactions between the East and the West.

Guoping HuangAssistant Professor

Yunsheng HuangAssociate Professor

Carla Jones is a Project Manager for the Center for Design and Health and instructor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning.

Carla JonesLecturer

An accomplished architect and educator, Jover is a principal of the Barcelona–based firm aldayjover architecture and landscape, along with Elwood R. Quesada Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture, Iñaki Alday.

Margarita Jover BiboumLecturer

Jull’s work investigates spatial typologies that emerge from a broad array of interrelated forces —scientific, ecological, economic, political, cultural, and technological—that influence and shape the built and natural environment. Jull has a dual background in architecture (M.Arch. Harvard GSD, 2008) and geophysics (Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1997).

Matthew JullAssistant Professor

Following the completion of his PhD, Huang first served as a research fellow at Cornell and then came to teach at the Univer-sity. His courses include a survey of World Buddhist architecture, a seminar on urban development in East Asia since WWII, and East-West architecture. His research focuses on cross-cultural issues and architectural interactions between the East and the West.

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Scott Kaiser is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning.

Scott KaiserLecturer

Kitchin teaches a design process that investigates the character inherent in materials and how the process of making informs the spaces we design. His research has always included a hands-on approach to architecture through the active fabrication shop. His academic research is closely tied to his professional practice.

Last is Associate Professor teaching theory and design. Her work develops interrelations between architecture, art, science and philosophy. Her publications include: Witt-genstein’s House: Language, Space and Architecture (2008). Currently she is completing manuscripts on the work of artist Thomas Struth and on the topic of “fluidity.”

Alexander KitchinLecturer

Nana LastAssociate Professor, Director of the Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment Program

Mark has a BA in Architecture and Math, a Master of Archi-tecture, a Master of Science in Media Technology, and a PhD in Architecture with a minor in Cognitive Science. He previously served on the faculty at MIT and was appointed as visiting faculty at ETH Zurich and the University of Cambridge.

Earl MarkAssociate Professor

Lucy is author of Foreclosing the Dream: How America’s Housing Crisis Is Reshaping Our Cities and Suburbs, winner of the American Library Association’s Choice Award, as one of the best academic books of 2010. He is working on a book about Adapting Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future: Behavioral Economics and the Social Psychology of Everyday Life.

William H. LucyProfessor

Joseph Maroon is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning.

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Shiqiao LiWeedon Professor of Asian Architecture

Li studied architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing and obtained his PhD from AA School of Architecture and Birkbeck College, University of London. He practiced architec-ture in London and Hong Kong, and taught at AA School of Architecture, National University of Singapore and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Martini serves as associate dean and teaches structural design. He has taught at U.V.a since 1992. He holds an M.Arch. and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, as well as a PE License in the state of California. His recent research addresses optimization methods for conceptual structural design.

Kirk MartiniAssociate Dean for Academics: Associate Professor

McDowell has practiced architec-ture in Charleston, SC, and New York, NY. He is a co-founding partner of the design practice, mcdowellespinosa, based in New York City and Charlottesville. His research focuses on redistributed resources and the transformation of waste, excess and the ordinary into new spatial and material realities.

Seth McdowellAssistant Professor

Lorenz is a licensed architect from Austria with education from TU Graz and TU Delft, and sever-al years of practice in architecture and urban design. Prior to joining U.V.a she was assistant professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has lectured internationally and her work has been exhibited at biennales in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Venice.

Esther LorenzLecturer

Lee’s research focuses on philosophy, litera ture, and land-scape design in German-speak-ing Europe. He is the author of The German “Mittelweg”: Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant (2007) and coeditor of Technology and the Garden (forthcoming).

Michael LeeReuben M. Rainey Associate Professor History Of Landscape

Lena McDonald is a Lecturer in the Department of Architectural History.

Lena McDonaldLecturer

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Meyer’s teaching and research questions conventional norms about contemporary public space, aesthetics and ethics; it creates imaginative, hybrid spaces for action between design, preservation and sustainability. Meyer aspires to reshape landscape architecture as a socio-ecological, process-based practice in support of more vibrant, resilient cities.

Elizabeth MeyerProfessor

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Menefee studied at Carne-gie-Mellon University, receiving a professional degree in architec-ture in 1977. In 1981 he formed the Charleston Architectural Group. He joined W.G. Clark in practice as Clark & Menefee Architects in 1985.

Charles Menefee IIIAssociate Professor

Moellmann teaches under-graduate design studios on a second and third year level as well as graduate/undergrad-uate seminars. Her research interests are to conceive and design constructed form in its operational, systematic, material and social context across scales.

Karolin MoellmannLecturer

Nebot is principal of ARQUI-TECTURA AGRONOMIA, a firm involved in Landscape Architecture projects in Europe, collaborating with FOA, AZPA, NOMAD, Rogers SH&Partners, and Abalos-Sentkiewicz. He focuses on the definition of projects and their construction process as a tool of the develop-ment of architectural concept.

Jordi NebotLecturer

Frederick MisselLecturer

Missel is the Director of Design and Development for the Univer-sity of Virginia Foundation. He oversees the management of the Foundation’s development proj-ects. He continues to oversee the development of state-of-the-art laboratories, Class A office buildings, a squash and tennis complex, a children’s medical center, ambulatory surgery facility, and an industrial research facility, as well as numerous other projects.

Neiman is Director of Archaeology at Monticello. His courses in historical archaeology, landscape archaeology, and the archaeology of Atlantic slavery emphasize the use of archaeo-logical analytical methods, and archaeological and architectural data to solve problems in the economic and social history of the early modern Atlantic.

Fraser NeimanLecturer

Osborn is trained as an Architect and a Landscape Architect and is a co-founder of BOTH, Inc. Brian teaches design studios and seminars in fabrication and site assembly. His current work investigates the potential for digital design logics to enable dynamic material properties toward both performative and experiential effects within the landscape.

Brian OsbornVisiting Lecturer; Virginia Teaching Fellow

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Murray joined the faculty Spring 2012 as a Lecturer and teaches two graduate courses, Environ-mental Systems and Building Synthesis. She has a M Arch in Sustainable and Environmental Design from the Architectural Association and BArch from Virginia Tech. Her research interests are natural ventilation and perceived thermal comfort.

Gwenedd MurrayLecturer

A Lecturer at the University of Virginia since 1981, Phinney has been a Distinguished Lecturer since 1996. Lucia Phinney notes that while common sense reveals a vital biotic and meteorological milieu, representations of new construction nearly always portray buildings as sited in a context of blank surfaces.

Lucia PhinneyDistinguished Lecturer

Andrew MondscheinAssistant Professor

Andrew Mondschein, PhD, AICP focuses on transportation and how transportation systems facilitate broad urban planning goals such as access to opportu-nities, sustainability, community building and economic develop-ment. Recent research includes topics such as how people cope with congestion, the role of information technologies in travel behavior, the demo-graphics of walking, and how people experience cities through everyday transportation.

Moomaw has spent most of the last three decades concerned with the future of our communi-ties from a theoretical, practical, and political sense. As major domestic and global issues frame debates in new ways, communities are the vehicles for getting things done, putting theory into practice, and making our world work better for all.

Suzanne MoomawAssociate Professor

Louis NelsonAssociate Professor; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs

Nelson specializes in early America and the early modern Atlantic. The Beauty of Holiness won the 2010 SESAH Best Book of the Year Prize, and his current book, Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, examines Jamaica’s place in the early modern Atlantic world and her role in the First British Empire.

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Pierce-McManamon joined the Department of Landscape Architecture in 2010 as a Lectur-er. Her recent design interests range from representation logic to iterative diagramming and place-based design strategies. She has served as a visiting critic at Boston Architectural College and the Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program.

Adalie Pierce McManamonLecturer

Quale initiated and serves as Director of the ecoMOD /ecoRE-MOD project, an interdisciplinary effort to design, build and evaluate sustainable homes for affordable housing organizations. Quale has received numerous design and teaching awards, is the author of: “Sustainable, Affordable, Prefab: the ecoMOD Project.”

John QualeAssociate Professor;Director Graduate Architecture Program

Roettger’s research interests lie in the interaction between design, community devel-opment, and political action. Roettger works to engage underserved populations in cultivating their local ecology, histories, built environment through the design process.

Betsy RoettgerAssistant Dean for Students and Community EngagementWith research focused on

structures, material innovation, and new technology in design, Ripple brings a background in computer science engineering and experience in a research-based architecture practice to her teaching.

Jeana RippleAssistant Professor

Matthew Pinyan is a Lecturer and Project Manager in the Dean’s Office.

Matthew PinyanLecturer

Eugene Ryang is a Lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture.

Eugene RyangLecturer

Sieweke taught and practiced in Berlin, Stuttgart and Dresden, Germany where he is a licensed urban designer and landscape architect. Sieweke directs “ParadoXcity,” a design research initiative that critically explores paradigms of modernity to identify design opportunities for “value-added engineering.”

Jorg SiewekeAssistant Professor

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Sherman’s architecture work develops new places for cultural exchange, public engagement and environmental under-standing. His work has been published widely, receiving numerous awards in design and education.

William ShermanProfessor; Founding Director, Open Grounds

Sampson has presented artists, run arts organizations and been involved with human creativity since 1967. As U.Va. Director of Development for the Arts he was catalyst for the Arts Grounds, then launched courses in Arts Administration in 2005. In 2010, Sampson joined the School of Architecture teaching Arts Administration and Design Thinking.

George W. SampsonLecturer

Rainey has taught in the School of Architecture for 34 years and is a former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. His present courses focus on the design of various healthcare facilities. As Co-Director of the School of Architecture’s Center for Design and Health he is also engaged in a number of research projects centering on the design of patient-centered medical facili-ties and healthy neighborhoods and cities.

Reuben M. RaineyProfessor Emeritus

Lisa ReillyAssociate Professor

Reilly specializes in medieval architectural history. She uses digital technology to explore the medieval design process (www.medievalarchitecture.org) and is currently teaching a course entitled Reconstruction of the Medieval Haj: the Travels of Ibn Jubayr, which incorporates the use of the newly designed Neat-line tool (www.neatline.org).

Richter has been a leader in water science and conservation for more than 20 years. In addition to teaching at U.Va., he is the Director of Global Freshwater Strategies for The Nature Con-servancy, promoting sustainable water use and management with governments, corporations, and local communities.

Brian RitcherLecturer

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Van Lengen is an internation-ally recognized, distinguished architect and educator. In her role as Dean of the School of Architecture from 1999-2009 she championed cross-disci-plinary education and research to address the complex environmental and cultural challenges that she dubbed The Architecture of Urgent Matters.

Karen Van LengenProfessor

Sommers teaches interdisci-plinary urban and architectural design at the intersection of the built environment and public health. He has a joint appointment in the Depart-ments of Public Health and Architecture. Schaeffer is a former Aerospace Engineer and received his M.Arch degree from the University of Virginia.

Schaeffer SommersLecturer

Katherine Slaughter is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning.

Katherine SlaughterLecturer

Theodore Slowik is a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture.

Theodore SlowikLecturer

At the University of Virginia Dean Tanzer has worked to enhance the School’s design research culture, developing interdisciplinary research themes including the Center for Design and Health and the Community Design and Research Center. She led the effort to create an interdisciplin-ary Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment. An architect, Tanzer has worked to deepen the School’s efforts in sustain-ability and design thinking.

Kim TanzerDean, Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture

Jaqueline Taylor is a Lecturer in the Dean’s Office.

Jaqueline TaylorLecturer

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Takahashi’s teaching and research seek hands-on design/build opportunities for students with a focus on materials and site-specific design. Current projects include a teaching food garden initiative, design of a student memorial garden at U.V.a, and research on a historic tract of university land purchased by Jefferson.

Nancy TakahashiDistinguished Lecturer, Chair

In a chorus with Surveyors, Nomads and Lunatics, Waldman conjures up Spatial Tales of Origin through incremental Specifications for Construc-tion. He believes architecture Frames, with the help of Celestial Sources and Essential Gravity, the Flows of this changing world. His teaching benchmarks the Beginning & the End through Epistemology & Eschatology.

Peter WaldmanProfessor, Director of the International Program

Spain teaches planning history, research methods, and urban theory. In addition to numerous articles, she has published Gendered Spaces (1992) and How Women Saved the City (2001), and has just finished a manuscript titled Constructive Feminism: Building Women’s Rights into the City.

Daphne SpainJames M. Page Professor; Cavaliers Distinguished Teaching Professor Megan Suau is a Lecturer in the

Department of Architecture.

Megan SuauLecturer

Marc Wagner is a Lecturer in the Department of Architectural History.

Marc WagnerLecturer

Jeffrey Walker is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning.

Jeffrey WalkerLecturer

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Richard Walker is a Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning.

Richard WalkerLecturer

Wilson’s specialty is American and Modern architecture, art, design, and cities from 1750 to the present. He is the author or collaborator on 18 books and many museum exhibitions, lectures frequently at other institutions and also serves as a television commentator. Among other activities he leads a summer school in Newport, RI.

Richard Guy WilsonCommonwealth Professor; Chair, Department of Architectural History

Yuen practices as a Design Director with Gensler focusing on program rich building types. Completed projects include Deloitte University, Hotel Sorella and the Classroom and Business Building at University of Houston. Lester received the Steedman Fellowship, his work has been featured in many publications. He holds an M.Arch from Yale University and BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Lester YuenLecturer

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John Casteen IIIUniversity Professor, Professor of English, President Emeritus

Cassandra FraserProfessor of Biomedical Engineering

Harry HardingDean, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Politics

David NeumanArchitect for the University

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Kim TanzerDean Of The School Of Architecture

Cynthia SmithAssistant To The Dean

Iñaki AldayChair Of Architecture

Richard Guy Wilson Chair Of Architectural History

Teresa Galí-IzardChair Of Landscape Architecture

Tim BeatleyChair Of Urban And Environmental Planning

Kirk MartiniAssociate Dean For Academics

Allen LeeAssociate Dean For Finance & Administration

Louis NelsonAssociate Dean For Research and International Programs

Nana LastDirector, Ph.D. in theConstructed Environment

Cally BryantGraphic Designer

Seth WoodCommunications And Outreach

Scott KarrAssociate Dean for Development and Executive Director of SARC Foundation

Kimberley Wong HaggartDonna RoseJune YangArchitectural School Foundation& Alumni

Kristine Nelson Admissions & Financial Aid

Sharon McdonaldCypress WalkerRegistrar’s Office

Mary Jo BatemanTim KelleyAdela SuAdministrative Support

Lisa BentonLeslie FitzgeraldBusiness Office

Kathy WoodsonHuman Resources

Dick SmithBuilding Manager

Melissa GoldmanFabrication Facilities Manager

Dav BanksEric FieldTony HorningTerry SheltraJake ThakstonJohn VigourIt Support

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