UVa. School of Architecture Admissions Catalog by Paper Matters Press

UNIVERSIT Y OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

W ELCOME The 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 communities 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 dedication to meeting today’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations 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

Kim Tanzer, Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor

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 experiment. 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.

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D E PA R T M E N T S Architecture Architectural History Landscape Architecture Urban and Environmental Planning Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment Degrees Rankings

ARC HI TEC T URE Architecture provides a mode of critical inquiry of contemporary culture, grounded in history and extended through observation, 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 innovative multi窶電isciplinary 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 structures and sites These issues are developed across the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curriculum, as well as through student and faculty work in design studios and seminars. As these threads of design investigation interact, new poetic possibilities 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 sustainable 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 multiâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; disciplinary school that also includes the Departments of Architectural History, Landscape Architecture, and Urban & Environmental Planning. Crossâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;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 Degrees

The 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-century 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 departments 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, technology, 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 bachelor’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 curriculum 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 experience 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 education 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 explorationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from components to buildings, to urban design, and to landscape.

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Jeana Ripple Design-driven Manufacturing Jeana Ripple, Assistant Professor in Architecture, has launched a collaborative research project with Suzanne Moomaw, Associate Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning, to investigate innovation potential in Virginia-based manufacturing. The project is focused on the concurrent development of innovative building products and necessary economic infrastructure to foster small-industry potential in Virginia communities. Rippleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spring research studios and graduate student research projects combine existing local manufacturing processes with design thinking, performance optimization software and the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital fabrication equipment. Students develop and test new structural, sustainable, and aesthetic applications for locally available materials and fabrication techniques. Moomawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 community. Design-driven manufacturing pushes the development of local entrepreneurship 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 maximize 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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A R C H I T E C T U R A L H I S TO R Y The oldest and largest Architectural History program in the nation lets students study at one of the world’s most important historical 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, landscapes, and cities. The department’s areas of study—and faculty specialties—span both time and geography, from Ancient to Modern and across all continents of the 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, preservationists, 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 conferences and schools. Recent publications range from the Renaissance and Michelangeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawings to historic preservation, from early American churches in the South and Caribbean, to Edith Wharton and 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. Degrees

Located in the highly regarded School of Architecture, many of the Architectural History department’s students and faculty take advantage 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 departments 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 Jamaica Louis Nelson Architecture and Empire in Jamaica is the first scholarly analysis of eighteenth-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 Atlantic 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 material realities of these spaces determined the contours of everyday life. In individual chapters, the storyline engages the historical connections between Jamaica and West Africa, the conceptual 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 cultural formation of the British “Indies.”

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L AND SC APE ARC HI T EC T URE 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 strategic 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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Matthew Jull, Leena Cho-Arctic Atlas, Transformation of the North

Our teaching philosophy encourages graduate students to integrate their previous intellectual backgrounds and skills into their landscape architecture 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 investigations begin locally in the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 landscapes, 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. Degrees

The 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–disciplinary teams. Throughout our curriculum, we act on our commitment to revitalize communities 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 consistent 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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Dew Studio Fall 2013, Barcelona The LAR section of the studio focuses on the development of urban ecotones as driven by planted forms and their evolving dynamics – a landscape vision to reimagine the ‘spaces of tension’ between Ciutat Vella and Eixample. The studio introduces methods of interpreting and describing varied structures, complexity, and richness of urban forest, and explores its position and design through the lens of ‘architecture of trees’.

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U R B A N A ND E N V I R ONME N TA L P L A N N I N G Planning is a systematic, creative way to influence 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 challenges by working with residents to enhance a sustainable quality of life, protect the natural environment, preserve historic buildings and landscapes, promote social justice for disadvantaged 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 communication, planning processes, and creative strategies for implementation. Some key areas of study include sustainable community development, environmental impacts, public and private costs of development, and neighborhood 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 plannerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Huang Mozambique 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 Washington D.C., has launched an Agro-Forestry Village Program in 5 Mozambican provinces to promote sustainable development in local communities. To support this vision, Professor Guoping Huang at the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning is in collaboration with Dobbin International Inc., to prepare a strategic plan for TechnoServe Mozambique. 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 Accessibility 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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Ph.D. IN THE CONSTRUCT ED ENVIRONMENT The Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment is a new multidisciplinary degree supporting advanced research in topics that engage one or more of the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four disciplines: architecture, landscape architecture, 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 affordable 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-oriented organizations in the public and private sectors.

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DEGREES 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 requirements of each degree and shorten the time required for attaining both degrees. Common dual degrees inlude: Architecture — Landscape Architecture History of Architecture — Architecture Landscape Architecture — Planning Architecture — Planning Planning — 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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MINORS AND C O N C E N T R AT I O N S A 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 in the University.

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RANKINGS For a ranking system that is known for considerable variation from year to year, U.Va.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 program was ranked in the top three most admired programs by Design Intelligenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s survey of Deans of American Architecture Schools. Additionally, Design Intelligence, using evaluations of Deans, professors 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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INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRICUL A Historic Preservation Program Summer Design Institute All-School Design Charettes (Vortex)

HISTORIC P R E S E R VAT I O N P R O G R A M 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 preservation today. Students normally complete the course work for the historic preservation 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 departments in vital site-specific work. In the Belmead project, Professors Daniel Bluestone and W.G. Clark worked with students from the four graduate departments 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 Project Daniel 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, Planning and Design Workshop assembled a multi-disciplinary team of students and faculty. They expanded the frontiers 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- American 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, Preservation 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, promoting 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).

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SUMMER DESIGN INS T I TUTE The Summer Design Institute (SDI), a fiveweek program, introduces students from non窶電esign 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 opportunities for exploring the making of place and the choreography of spatial sequences through the arrangement of figures (objects, bounded spaces), fields (extensive surfaces, contextual grounds), and flows (human movement, light/shadow, temperature changes, etc.). In 2013, this rich and intensive four-week collaboration between Teresa Gali-Izard and Matthew Jull reflected the unique collaboration between Architecture and Landscape Architecture at U.Va., an important component 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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2013 SDI student work

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A L L- S C H O O L D E S I G N CHARET T ES (VORT EX) 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 representation of all generations and all the involved departments evenly and randomly distributed. 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 opportunity to rethink one topic of American urbanism. This year the workshop will be led by Robertson Professor Xaveer De Geyter, following Adriaan Geuze in 2013 and Eduardo Arroyo in 2012.

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Belmont Vortex Workshop The 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 collaborative 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 competition followed the guidelines of the ongoing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Project Gait-Way,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; a design competition open to the public. Teams submitted their design proposals to this public competition, as well as competed in an internal SARC competition which recognized outstanding school proposals. Images: Brian Wimer

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Rivanna River A second all-school charette took place in January 2013, focusing in the Rivanana 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 charette culminated in a public presentation, exhibition, and competition of the design projects that engaged the local community in envisioning the future of Charlottesville.

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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Images: Foundation Studio II: Spring 2013. Instructor: Teresa Galí-Izard, Students: Jenna

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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, CENTERS, AND INSTITUTES Center for Design and Health Community Design and Research Center Urban Dynamics Research Initiative Regenerate Design Representation and Material Practice Global Cultures and the Constructed Environment Institute for Environmental Negotiation

CENT ER FOR D E S I G N A N D H E A LT H This 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 advocates 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 Competition Schaeffer 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 Architecture for Health Fall 2012 Conference. Schaeffer Somers led an interdisciplinary team of graduate and undergraduate students from the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban & Environmental Planning. 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 teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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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COMMUNIT Y DESIGN AND RESE ARCH CENT ER The Community Design and Research Center (CDRC) is an interdisciplinary research and community practice center that builds on the School of Architecture’s long history in community design, engagement, 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, sustainable 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 environmental 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 community members to: - Increase our research and practice of ways that design disciplines inform our knowledge of systems thinking, engagement, and solutions in unique ways. - Develop synergistic linkages between sustainability, design, new technologies, and community development. - Build the capacity within the School of Architecture and with onGrounds and community partners to define problems with an interdisciplinary lens and to collaboratively build strategies for sustainable solutions across Charlottesville, Virginia, and the world.

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ecoMOD / ecoREMOD: Sustainable Affordable Housing John Quale Research indicates that housing occupied by low-income families is among the least energy-efficient, placing further financial stresses on households already struggling. Since 2004, ecoMOD, and its sister project ecoREMOD, have been creating energy-efficient prefab and rehab housing for affordable housing organizations.

Two of the ecoMOD South homes are being installed in South Boston, Virginia, located across the street from six two-story 1970â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment buildings. In a fall 2012 studio, the ecoREMOD SoBo team proposed energy efficient upgrades for these low-income housing apartments, including movable shade devices and rain gardens.

The design for ecoMOD4, a home completed in 2009 for Afghani refugees through Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, is being commercialized 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 Architecture ($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.

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 preserve 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.

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URBA N DY N A MIC S R E S E A R C H I N I T I AT I V E The 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 comparative 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.

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Jorg Sieweke Delta Cities Studios 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 informed outlook into their future. Delta Cities have been impelled to manage the advantages and disadvantages 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 socio-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?

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R E G E N E R AT E The 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 placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;one that gleans key lessons from the past and present, from historical patterns and ecological processes, 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 landscapes and sites.

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Charlottesville Mall Project Beth Meyer Beth Meyer’s involvement with the Charlottesville Downtown Mall runs the gamut from grass-roots preservation advocate to studio instructor to exhibition 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 publications 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.

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 Charlottesville 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 Creativity in Charlottesville, 1973-2010. From Urban Renewal to Constructing Community, will be the third book in a new Modern Landscapes series published by Princeton Architectural Press and The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Image: Beth Meyer, Downtown Mall

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D E S I G N R E P R E S E N TAT I O N A N D M AT E R I A L P R AC T I C E Design 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 architecture can also be viewed as a history of representation. The means by which we look at the world, the ways we gather and interpret information, 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 representation. 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 community-based art projects.

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Spring 2013 Material Research Agenda Alexander Kitchin Concrete is the most consumed material 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). Compared to conventional concrete, UHPC can be 10-1000 times stronger and more durable, has a longer life expectancy, and uses fewer natural resources. Concrete has no inherent formâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it is a liquid material, with unprecedented strength and seductive tactile qualitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so we can ask, what architecture can we make

and how can it evolve in collaboration with physical, digital, synthetic or parametric design? This research will be conducted as combined studio and hands-on fabrication 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. Images: Alexander Kitchin

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G L O B A L C U LT U R E S AND THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT 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 facultyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 understanding 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.

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Why Women Need Pink Taxis Daphne Spain 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 feminists, 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 Mallgrave and Timothy Beatley (eds) The Companion to Urban Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming). Image: Shelley Lyn

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INSTITUTE FOR E N V I R O N M E N TA L N E G O T I AT I O N The 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 preservation, 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

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Sea Level Rise and Coastal Resilience Ellen Martin 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.

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STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES Expanding our Global Perspective Externships Fellowships

E X PA N D I N G O U R G LO B A L P E R S P E C T I V E Global perspectives clarify local work by exposing designers, planners, and historians to surprising and creative possibilities. Partnering 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 environment is enmeshed in a network of multiscalar 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 systems that, in turn, give shape and meaning to the local. The Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expanded global focus, integrated 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 worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most exceptional cultures, past and present, and to provide professional service internationally 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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Photography by: Jake Fox, Judy Chang, Whitney Newton

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CHINA

JAMAICA

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.

Since 2002, the School of Architecture at U.Va. has sustained a rich and engaging commitment to the community of Falmouth, Jamaica, one of the Caribbeanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most threatened historic townscapes. Founded in the late eighteenth century, and generally bypassed by any industry or economic development through the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the town is an amazing repository of historic architecture and landscapes that speak to Jamaicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s importance as a sugar producer, the devastating institution of slavery, the legacy of disenfranchisement, and the resilience of the Jamaican people.

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INDIA

VENICE

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 dwellingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the emergent megacity and the enduring villageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we will make connections between cultural practices that persist today and are far removed from our own. Each year focuses on one of the panchabhuta 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 collaboration with Venetian faculty. Housing is in shared apartments.

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Image (left): Students in Venice Image (right): By Jake Fox, Judy Chang, Whitney Newton

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VICENZ A

SW I T ZERL A ND

During the month of June, students are introduced to Italian culture through the study of architecture, landscape architecture, 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.

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

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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.

Image: By Jake Fox, Judy Chang, Whitney Newton

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THE DEW STUDIO IN BARCELONA The 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 tradition 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 important 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 administrators 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.

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S E M E S T E R AT S E A Early 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.”

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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 encouraged 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 experience, and I thank the School of Architecture as well as Thomas Phifer and Partners for the tremendous opportunity.” -Paul Golisz, M.Arch ‘14

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LONDON 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.

EX TERNSHIPS 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.

Matthew Pinyan, 2012 Sarah McArthur Nix Travelling Fellow

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 externships 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.

FELLOWSHIPS 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.

T R AV E L I N G F E L L O W S H I P S The School of Architecture offers numerous summer travel fellowships 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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CONTEXT The Arts Grounds and Campbell Hall Studios Fabrication Printing Living in Charlottesville Student Leadership

THE ARTS GROUNDS AND CAMPBELL HALL The Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds are comprised of several new and renovated 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 Architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Campbell Hall. Planned additions to the Arts Grounds also include a new music rehearsal hall, a museum expansion, 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, performances, 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 performances, and Creative Writing readings often join the line-up.

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Image: By Kirk Martini, Campbell Hall, Campbell Hall studio space

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 classrooms. There are also outdoor teaching spaces.

STUDIOS

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 collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from classmates to the community.

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From 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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Earl Mark, Molly Baum (M Arch’12), Eric Field

for students, faculty, and staff. Past SSCs have included Casting and Formwork, Introduction to Welding, Vacuuforming, Advanced Woodworking Techniques, and more. The Introduction to the CNC Routers is offered every semester and is required for access to the Onsrud and Techno CNC routers. The Woodshop and CNC Lab are fully equipped with tools for traditional 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.

PRINTING

In spring 2013, the School of Architecture acquired a professional digital printing press (Canon ImagePress C1), perfect binder, and mechanical 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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Image (left): By Alexander Kitchin, megacast studio Image (right): Graduate students in Campbell Hall courtyard

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L I V I N G I N C H A R LO T T E S V I L L E Nestled 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 Halprindesigned 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 community. 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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Image: By Villian Media LLc Charlottesvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Historic Downtown Mall. (top), Charlottesville Pavillion (bottom)

Photography Festival and the Virginia Festival of the Book. The Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 collections 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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Image (left): By Esther Westerveld and Ryan Harvey, Charlottesvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Historic Downtown Mall, (middle) Foxfield Races, (right) Monticello

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STUDENT LE ADERSHIP

Students play critical roles in shaping the life of the school, hosting guest lecturers, serving on school search and administrative committees, and organizing their own calendar of social and educational programs. LUNCH is the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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-disciplinary 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 throughout 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 publishing 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 countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading bloggers to discuss new ways of communication 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 conversations 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 organization 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;100 Mile Thanksgivingâ&#x20AC;? 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.

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EVENTS Lectures, Symposia, and Exhibits Endowed Visiting Professorships and Lectures

LECTURES, SYMPOSIA, AND EXHIBITS The 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 (AbalosSentkiewicz 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 (ReedHilderbrand), Oct. 25, 2013 Biophilic Cities Launch, Oct. 17, 2013 Helen Dorey (Sir John Soane’s Museum), Nov. 4, 2013

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Year of Water Drink 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 destabilization. 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 aquifers 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 concentrated 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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After the Deluge Observing how water changes the landscape, Leonardo DaVinci was presented with the vexing visual problem of speed. Perceiving phenomena that are fleetingly transient or imperceptibly gradual led Leonardo to divergent 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 candidate, Princeton University. Panel: Matthew Reidenbach, Dept. of Environmental Science, Hossein Haj-Hariri, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Aeronautic and Mechanical Engineering, Francesca Fiorani, Dept. of Art History, Nana Last, Dept. of Architecture

Technologies, U.Va.. Panel: Matthew Jull and Leena Cho, School of Architecture, 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 candidate, University of Plymouth, artist and biologist Panel: Phoebe Crisman, Dept. of Architecture, Director of Global Sustainability program, Jim Smith, Civil Engineering, Rebecca Dillingham, Director Center for Global Health Dialogue 4: The Disappearing Keynote: Margaret Ross Tolbert, artist and environmentalist. Panel: Brian Richter, The Nature Conservancy, Paolo D’Odorico, Environmental Science, Janet Herman, Environmental Science.

Dialogue 2: The Rising Keynote: Matthew Burtner, Department of Music, Composition and Computer

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Image (top left): Exhibit, AQUIFERious VIRGINIA, Margaret Ross Tolbert

Launch of Biophilic Cities Peer Network For three days at the end of October, the A-School hosted urban and environmental 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 University School of Forestry, and Jennifer Wolch, of UC Berkeleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next for Biophilic Cities, at www.biophiliccities.org Image (bottom right): by Jennifer Andresen

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Biennale Box: W.G. Clark’s Collection W.G. Clark 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.” Thirty-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 collected 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 grandmother 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...”

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ENDOW ED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND LECTURES ENDOWED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS Harry Porter, Jr. Visiting Professor 2004 Diana Balmori 2007 Stephen Cassell 2008 Peter Newman 2009 Stefan Behnisch 2010 Kate John-Alder 2012 Doris Behrens-Abouseif Jaquelin T. Robertson Visiting Professorship in Architecture 2009 Vishaan Charkrabarti 2011 Lionel Deulieger 2012 Eduardo Arroyo 2013 Adriaan Geuze Harry S. Shure Visiting Professorship 1987 Demetri Porphyrios 1989 Peter Waldman 1990 Rudy Hunziker 1991 Merrill Elam 1992 Amy Weinstein 1993 Robert Mangurian 1994 Andrea Leers 1995 Eugene Kupper 1996 Adele Naude Santos 1997 Samuel Mockbee 1998 Anthony Ames 1998 Maryann Thompson and Charles Rose 1999 William Williams 2000 Frano Violich and Sheila Kennedy

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2001 Adam Yarinsky and Stephen Sassell 2002 Kathryn Dean and Charles Wolf 2004 Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP 2005 Michael Rotondi 2006 Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch 2007 Simon Allford and Paul Monaghan 2009 Bryan Bell 2010 Merrill Elam 2011 Pankaj Gupta ENDOWED LECTURES Benjamin C. Howland Jr. Memorial Lecture 1984 Russell E. Dickinson 1985 William Penn Mott, Jr. 1986 Walter A. Netsch 1987 William H. Whyte 1988 Joseph P. Riley, Jr. 1989 Grant Jones 1991 Nathan Glazer 1992 Charles Birnbaum 1993 Orrin H. Pilkey 1995 William Cronon 1996 Frederick Steiner 1997 Lawrence Buell 1998 Michael Pollan 1999 William Wenk

2000 Richard Haag 2001 Ethan Carr 2002 Sebastien Marot 2003 Anne Whiston Spirn 2004 Shlomo Aronson 2005 Elizabeth Barlow Rogers 2006 Mia Lehrer 2007 Majora Carter 2008 John G. Parsons 2009 Christine Dalnoky 2009 Margarita Jover and I単aki Alday 2010 John G. Parsons 2011 Steven Handel 2012 Kate Orff Hanbury, Evans, Wright, Vlattas & Co. Endowed Lecture 2004 Dr. Martin Cherry 2007 David Fixler 2009 Richard Moe 2012 Stephen Kieran 2012 Sir Michael Hopkins Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecture 1993 Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi 1994 Catherine Brown 1995 Karen Berman 1996 William F. Conway

1997 Charles Rose and Maryann Thompson 1998 Brigitte Shim 1999 Sheila Kennedy 2000 Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani 2001 Lewis, Tsurumaki, Lewis 2002 LOT/EK 2003 Ravee Choksombatchai 2004 Bryan Bell 2005 Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels 2006 Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks 2007 Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott 2009 Blair Satterfield 2010 Marc Swackhamer 2011 Eva Franch 2012 Enric Ruiz-Geli Myles H. Thaler Lecture 1990 Ian McHarg 1992 Roberto Burle-Marx 1994 Martha Schwartz 1996 Adriaan Geuze 1997 Mario Schjetnan 1998 Peter and Anneliese Latz 1999 Kathryn Gustafson 2000 Cornelia Oberlander 2001 Beth Gali 2002 Ken Smith 2003 Denis Cosgrove

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2004 Michael Van Valkenburgh 2005 Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods 2006 Kongjian Yu 2007 Thomas Saxgard and Ingbritt Liljekvist 2008 Christophe Girot 2009 Dirk Sijmons 2010 Anton James, Perry Lethlean and Julian Raxworthy 2011 Ronald Rietvelt 2012 Warren T. Byrd and Thomas Woltz 2013 Doug Reed and Gary Hilderbrand THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture 1966 Mies van der Rohe 1967 Alvar Aalto 1968 Marcel Breurer 1969 John Ely Burchard 1970 Kenzo Tange 1971 Jose Luis Sert 1972 Lewis Mumford 1973 Jean Labatut 1974 Frei Otto 1975 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner 1976 I.M. Pei 1977 Ada Louise Huxtable 1978 Philip Johnson 1979 Lawrence Halprin 1980 Hugh A. Stubbins

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1981 Edward Larabee Barnes 1982 Vincent Scully 1983 Robert Venturi 1984 H. H. The Aga Khan 1985 Leon Krier 1986 James Stirling 1987 Romaldo Giurgola 1988 Dan Kiley 1989 Paul Mellon 1990 Fumihiko Maki 1991 John V. Lindsay 1992 Aldo Rossi 1993 Andres M. Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk 1994 Frank O. Gehry 1995 Ian L. McHarg 1996 Jane Jacobs 1997 Jaime Lerner 1998 Jaquelin T. Robertson 1999 Lord Richard Rogers 2000 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan 2001 Glenn Murcutt 2002 James Turrell 2003 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien 2004 Peter Walker 2005 Shigeru Ban 2006 Peter Zumthor 2007 Zaha Hadid 2008 Gro Harlem Brundtland 2009 Robert Irwin 2010 Edward O. Wilson 2011 Maya Lin 2012 Rafael Moneo 2013 Laurie Olin

Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professorship in Architecture 1966 Pietro Belluschi 1966 Felix Candela 1967 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil Ford 1967 Ralph Rapson 1968 Marcel Breuer 1969 John Ely Burchard 1960 Alan Y. Taniguchi 1960 Robert L. Vickery 1971 Jose Luis Sert 1972 Lewis Mumford 1973 Jean Labatut 1974 Anderson Todd 1975 Alexander Cochran 1975 Peter Faller 1976 Shivnath Prasad 1977 Lawrence Anderson 1978 Norman C. Fletcher 1078 Theodore Waddell 1979 Giorgio Bellavitis 1979 Harry Seidler 1970 Romaldo Giurgola 1970 Hugh A. Stubbins 1981 Robert B. Marquis 1981 Edward Larrabee Barnes 1982 Barton Myers 1983 Leon Krier 1984 Joseph Passonneau

1984 Colin Rowe 1985 Edward Logue 1985 Demetri Porphyrios 1986 Michael Dennis 1986 H.H.P. Van Ginkel 1988 Dan Kiley 1989 Henry Smith-Miller 1980 Tod Williams 1991 Kenneth Frampton 1992 Rodolfo Machado 1993 Laurie Olin 1994 Adele Santos 1995 Werner Seligman 1996 Vincent Scully 1997 Michael Graves 1998 Glenn Murcutt 1999 William Mitchell 2000 William Morrish 2001 William Bruder 2002 Juhani Pallasmaa 2003 Rick Mather 2004 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien 2005 Michael Vergason 2006 Robert L. Pressey 2007 Elias Torres 2008 Kathryn Moore 2011 Marlon Blackwell

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ALUMNI Recent Accomplishments Firms Perspectives

R EC EN T ALUMNI ACCOMPLISHMENTS Melissa Keywood

MUEP Received 2012 Walter B Jones Award for Excellence in Coastal and Ocean Management Lauren Hackney

BS Arch ’05, M Arch ’11, MLA ’11 Member of the winning design team at PWP for Constitution Gardens Alexa Bush

MLA’12 Honor Award AIA|DC Unbuilt Competition Award for San Francisco Waterfront Marilyn Moedinger

BS Arch ‘05, M Arch ‘10 Winner of 2010 SOM Prize Randall Winston

M Arch’11 Co-winner of Los Angeles Greentech Corridor Competition Kristen Sparenborg

MAH’13 Preservation Certificate Co-author of Lost Communities of Virginia, winner of Pelliccia Fellowship

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ALUMNI FIRMS School of Architecture graduates are prepared for a variety of careers in firms and offices around the world. Some of the places youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find our alumni working include: -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

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-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

ALUMNI PERSPEC TIVES “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 infrastructure 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.” “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 respective disciplines, but so enthusiastic about working across disciplines and learning along with their students, which creates a really unique ethic of collaboration, 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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Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh

Iñaki Alday Sanz

Manuel Bailo Esteve

Lecturer

Quesada Professor; Chair, Department of Architecture

Associate Professor

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 founder 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.

Pam Black

Daniel Bluestone

Cammy Brothers

Distinguished Lecturer

Professor; Director, Historic Preservation Program

Associate Professor, Valmarana Chair, Program Director of the Venice Program

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.

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Bluestone 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 architectural history of 19th century Chicago. His preservation and community advocacy has won numerous national awards.

Manuel Bailo founded BAILORULL ADD+ in Barcelona in 1995 with Rosa Rull. Their work includes a wide range of projects, 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.

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

Julie Bargmann

Ellen Bassett

Timothy Beatley

Associate 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.

Bassett is an Associate Professor 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.

Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities; Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning Much of Beatleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

C. Cole Burrell

Anselmo Canfora

Robert Carter

Lecturer

Associate Professor

Lecturer

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

Canforaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 traditionally engaged. He founded Initiative reCOVER in 2007 to bring together academic, civic, and professional organizations to work collaboratively to benefit the common good.

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

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Leena Cho

W.G. Clark

Richard C. Collins

Lecturer

Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor Of Architecture

Lawrence Lewis Jr. Professor Emeritus; Founder, Institute for Environmental Negotiation

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.

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.

Collins has written numerous articles in urban and environmental planning and policy as well as on aspects of environmental 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.

Robin Dripps

Frank Dukes

Eric M. Field

T. David-Gibson Professor Of Architecture

Lecturer; Director, Institute for Environmental Negotiation

Applied and Advanced Technologies

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.

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Dukes designs dispute resolution 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.

With a background in both architecture and engineering, and 20+ years in applied information technology, Field teaches, develops, 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 technology and visualization research lab.

Sheila Crane

Phoebe Crisman

Associate Professor

Lecturer

Crane is the author of Mediterranean 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 architectural 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 architecture and urbanism. Educated at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Carnegie Mellon, she is a licensed Architect and principal of Crisman+Petrus Architects.

Denckla Cobb is an experienced mediator who facilitates a broad range of community issues; a teacher of food systems planning, 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.

Karen Firehock

Edward Ford

Teresa Galí-Izard

Lecturer

Vincent And Eleanor Shea Professor

Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture

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.

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

Tanya Denckla Cobb

Galí-Izard is principal of ARQUITECTURA 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.

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Melissa Goldman

Maggie Guggenheimer

Kendra Hamilton

Fabrication Facilities Manager

Lecturer

Maggie Guggenheimer is a Lecture in Arts Administration.

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

Satyendra Huja

Sanda Iliescu

Jane Jacobs

Lecturer

Associate Professor

Lecturer

Huja is the President of Community 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 Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Charlottesville for 25 years.

Iliescuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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

In her role as Fabrication Facilities Manager, Goldman advances the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to fabrication that integrates design with new and traditional methods. She is responsible for running all fabrication facilities, including the woodshop, the CNC facilities, and the Milton facility.

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Chloe Hawkins

Guoping Huang

Yunsheng Huang

Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

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.

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.

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 EastWest architecture. His research focuses on cross-cultural issues and architectural interactions between the East and the West.

Carla Jones

Margarita Jover Biboum

Matthew Jull

Lecturer

Assistant Professor

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

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.

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).

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Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Mexico-Strip

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Scott Kaiser

Alexander Kitchin

Nana Last

Lecturer

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

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.

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

William H. Lucy

Earl Mark

Joseph Maroon

Professor

Associate Professor

Lecturer

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.

Mark has a BA in Architecture and Math, a Master of Architecture, 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.

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

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Last is Associate Professor teaching theory and design. Her work develops interrelations between architecture, art, science and philosophy. Her publications include: Wittgenstein’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.”

Michael Lee

Shiqiao Li

Esther Lorenz

Reuben M. Rainey Associate Professor History Of Landscape

Weedon Professor of Asian Architecture

Lecturer

Lee’s research focuses on philosophy, literature, and landscape design in German-speaking 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).

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 architecture in London and Hong Kong, and taught at AA School of Architecture, National University of Singapore and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lorenz is a licensed architect from Austria with education from TU Graz and TU Delft, and several 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.

Kirk Martini

Lena McDonald

Seth Mcdowell

Associate Dean for Academics: Associate Professor

Lecturer

Assistant Professor

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

McDowell has practiced architecture 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.

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.

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Images: Foundation Studio I: Fall 2013. Instructor: Brian Osborn, Students: Amanda Coen, Hanna Barefoot

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Charles Menefee III

Elizabeth Meyer

Associate Professor

Professor

Lecturer

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

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, processbased practice in support of more vibrant, resilient cities.

Missel is the Director of Design and Development for the University of Virginia Foundation. He oversees the management of the Foundation’s development projects. He continues to oversee the development of state-of-theart 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.

Karolin Moellmann

Jordi Nebot

Fraser Neiman

Lecturer

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

Nebot is principal of ARQUITECTURA 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 development of architectural concept.

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

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Frederick Missel

Andrew Mondschein

Suzanne Moomaw

Gwenedd Murray

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

Lecturer

Andrew Mondschein, PhD, AICP focuses on transportation and how transportation systems facilitate broad urban planning goals such as access to opportunities, sustainability, community building and economic development. Recent research includes topics such as how people cope with congestion, the role of information technologies in travel behavior, the demographics 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 communities 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.

Murray joined the faculty Spring 2012 as a Lecturer and teaches two graduate courses, Environmental 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.

Louis Nelson

Brian Osborn

Lucia Phinney

Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs

Visiting Lecturer; Virginia Teaching Fellow

Distinguished Lecturer

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 Jamaicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place in the early modern Atlantic world and her role in the First British Empire.

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.

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.

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Adalie Pierce McManamon Lecturer Pierce-McManamon joined the Department of Landscape Architecture in 2010 as a Lecturer. 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.

Matthew Pinyan

John Quale

Lecturer

Associate Professor; Director Graduate Architecture Program

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

Quale initiated and serves as Director of the ecoMOD /ecoREMOD 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.”

Jeana Ripple

Betsy Roettger

Eugene Ryang

Assistant Professor

Assistant Dean for Students and Community Engagement

Lecturer

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

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

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

Reuben M. Rainey

Lisa Reilly

Professor Emeritus

Associate Professor

Lecturer

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 facilities and healthy neighborhoods and cities.

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 Neatline 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 Conservancy, promoting sustainable water use and management with governments, corporations, and local communities.

George W. Sampson

William Sherman

Jorg Sieweke

Lecturer

Professor; 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.

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

Brian Ritcher

Assistant Professor 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.”

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Images: Foundation Studio III: Fall 2009. Instructor: Jorg Sieweke

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Katherine Slaughter

Theodore Slowik

Schaeffer Sommers

Lecturer

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

Theodore Slowik is a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture.

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

Kim Tanzer

Jaqueline Taylor

Karen Van Lengen

Dean, Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture

Lecturer

Professor

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

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

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 interdisciplinary Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment. An architect, Tanzer has worked to deepen the School’s efforts in sustainability and design thinking. 124

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Daphne Spain

Megan Suau

Nancy Takahashi

James M. Page Professor; Cavaliers Distinguished Teaching Professor

Lecturer

Distinguished Lecturer, Chair

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 Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rights into the City.

Megan Suau is a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture.

Takahashiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Marc Wagner

Peter Waldman

Jeffrey Walker

Lecturer

Professor, Director of the International Program

Lecturer

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

In a chorus with Surveyors, Nomads and Lunatics, Waldman conjures up Spatial Tales of Origin through incremental Specifications for Construction. 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.

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

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Richard Walker

Richard Guy Wilson

Lester Yuen

Lecturer

Commonwealth Professor; Chair, Department of Architectural History

Lecturer

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

Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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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.

A F F I L I AT E D F A C U LT Y John Casteen III University Professor, Professor of English, President Emeritus

Cassandra Fraser Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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

David Neuman Architect for the University

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S TA F F Kim Tanzer Dean Of The School Of Architecture

Cynthia Smith Assistant To The Dean

Iñaki Alday Chair Of Architecture

Kimberley Wong Haggart Donna Rose June Yang Architectural School Foundation & Alumni

Kristine Nelson Admissions & Financial Aid

Richard Guy Wilson Chair Of Architectural History

Teresa Galí-Izard Chair Of Landscape Architecture

Tim Beatley Chair Of Urban And Environmental Planning

Kirk Martini

Sharon Mcdonald Cypress Walker Registrar’s Office

Mary Jo Bateman Tim Kelley Adela Su Administrative Support

Associate Dean For Academics

Lisa Benton Leslie Fitzgerald

Allen Lee

Business Office

Associate Dean For Finance & Administration

Kathy Woodson Human Resources

Louis Nelson Associate Dean For Research and International Programs

Dick Smith

Nana Last

Melissa Goldman

Building Manager

Director, Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment

Fabrication Facilities Manager

Cally Bryant

Dav Banks Eric Field Tony Horning Terry Sheltra Jake Thakston John Vigour

Graphic Designer

Seth Wood Communications And Outreach

Scott Karr Associate Dean for Development and Executive Director of SARC Foundation

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Teresa Gali-Izard, Landfill Restauration

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Published January 2013 Production Credits: Cally Bryant, Graphic Designer Carlos Jennings & Ryan Metcalf, Editorial Assistants Matthew Pinyan, Printing Support Scott Smith & Bill Sherman, Campbell Hall Photography Seth Wood, Communications and Outreach Coordinator

Photography by: John Vigour, U.Va. Lawn