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colonnade a publication of the university of virginia school of architecture
international engagement volume xxV, summer 2011
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Letter from the Dean Our Global Reach:
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>> Asia
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>> Mediterranean Basin
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>> Europe
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>> Africa + The Caribbean
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>> Australia
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>> Global Programs
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Faculty + Staff Notes
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Student Notes
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Networking + Connections
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Alumni Notes
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Reunions
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Foundation and Campaign Update
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In Memoriam
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Year in Review
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letter from the dean A metamorphosis is a change of shape. While this issue of Colonnade focuses on the School’s engagement in the international arena, it also highlights some significant elements of our ongoing metamorphosis. This is a time of transformation and renewal, with the establishment of multiple new programs and new faculty members coming in this fall. And just as the fabric of our School will have a new look, our website will as well, with a redesign currently underway to be debuted in the fall. This year has indeed been one of transitions, for the School and for the University.
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Beginning with transformational changes across the University, we began the 2010-11 academic year with our first new president in two decades, Teresa Sullivan. Her formal inauguration in April coincided with Founder’s Day, and Thomas Jefferson Architecture Medalist Maya Lin was included in some of the week’s festivities. Leonard Sandridge, Vice President for Finance and Administration, is retiring this month, and Provost Tim Garson is stepping down to focus fully on global public health initiatives he has spearheaded. Taking these changes in leadership in stride, President Sullivan is bringing huge energy and experience to shaping the University’s mission for the 21st century and she fully is incorporating the School of Architecture in her efforts. As many of you know, we also lost two important members of the A-School community this past year. To honor them we held school-wide celebrations, the first for Mario di Valmarana in November 2010 and the second for Harry Porter in March 2011. Both celebrations gave us an opportunity to recognize their contributions to the School and to remember the School’s longtime colleagues in the midst of their many friends. In addition, two of our long-standing professors retired in May 2011: Professor David Phillips from the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning; and Professor Warren Boeschenstein from the Department of Architecture. Both will remain in Charlottesville and we hope to see them often. The other side of endings, of course, is beginnings, and much of this year has been spent selecting and inviting new colleagues to our A-School community. Following several searches, we welcomed Melissa Goldman, Fabrications Facilities Manager, in January 2011, and Allen Lee, Associate Dean of Finance and Administration, in April 2011. We look forward to welcoming additional new faculty in the 2011-12 academic year: Guoping Huang, Assistant Professor in Planning; Mara Marcu, Virginia Teaching Fellow; and Shiqiao Li, the new Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture. Craig Barton and Louis Nelson are stepping down as chairs of the departments of Architecture and Architectural History respectively to return to the full-time faculty. Barton will be replaced by Iñaki Alday, new chair of the Department of Architecture, and Nelson will be replaced by Professor Richard Guy Wilson. In addition to changes in the membership of our community we are also evolving the School’s curricular offerings. We have established or have initiated several exciting new programs, including: the Global Sustainability Minor, initiated in January 2011; the Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment and the Master of Science in the Constructed Environment, with final approval anticipated next year; and most recently, the Center for Design and Health, launched in May 2011. As we continue to evolve our funding strategy to support these initiatives and our ongoing student and faculty scholarship and research efforts, it is important to recognize the rapidly approaching end of the A-School’s campaign, our most ambitious ever. As this metamorphosis proceeds, I am incredibly thankful for one thing that is always consistent: the tremendous support and creativity of the School’s strong community of faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends. I look forward to yet another exciting and productive year.
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EUROPE
MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
AFRICA+THE CARIBBEAN
our Global Reach
Expanding our global perspective How will our work at the School of Architecture help us develop good global citizens? Will our students be better able to understand other places through “local” eyes after participating in our programs? Will our students be better able to understand the United States, having traveled to or lived in other places? Will our faculty and staff be more prepared to educate our students, and will we, ourselves, become better global citizens in the process?
to learn from the world’s most exceptional cultures, past and present, and to provide professional service internationally where possible. It is worth remembering, too, that while global understanding is an important emerging priority for the University of Virginia, the School of Architecture has been a leader across Grounds for many decades. We continue to send a larger percentage of our students overseas than any other School, and we aspire to do still more.
The School’s expanded global focus, detailed in this issue of Colonnade and integrated within our six 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 further our efforts, the School has received generous support from the Vice Provost for International Programs, Dr. Gowher Rizvi. This past year, the School hosted two international symposia. “Sea Crossings: Rethinking Mediterranean Architecture and History” focused on the Mediterranean Sea as a means of
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transport and communication, suggesting new cultural contacts across the centuries. “Turning Urban: Innovation in Megacites� provided the opportunity for speakers from around the world to discuss the challenges of emerging megacities, following UVa sponsored faculty visits to Dhaka, London, Cairo, Sao Paolo and the Po Valley in Italy. This summer, again with support from the Office of International Programs, nine faculty members will visit specific sites in locations as diverse as Istanbul, Bucharest, New Delhi, and London, then return to share their knowledge with their students, the School of Architecture community, and their larger academic communities.
research Themes Design + Health Adaptive Infrastructures Regenerate Design + Community Engagement Design Representation + Material Practices Expanding Canons
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New Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture The School of Architecture is pleased to announce Dr. Shiqiao Li as the new Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture. Li is an internationally recognized scholar whose research is focused on understanding emergent conditions in Chinese cities by contextualizing them in traditional discourses of modernity and architecture in their Western and Asian manifestations. Following on the success of the School of Architecture’s Weedon lecture series on Asian studies, Li will take a leadership role in building an appreciation for Asian environmental design culture and expanding the School’s established international profile. He will also have the opportunity to contribute to the University’s broad base in Asian Studies through connections with the East Asia Center, the Center for South Asian Studies, and the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, among others. His appointment will begin in January 2012. The Weedon Professorship is made possible by the Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation and a matching gift by the Saunders Family Challenge. 4 | international engagement
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Summer Study Abroad Program and Internships The School of Architecture has offered the China Architecture and Culture summer study abroad program since its founding in 1993 by Associate Professor of Architectural History Yunsheng Huang. In conjunction with the Beijing Institute of Asian Studies at Peking University, students spend four weeks in Beijing and two weeks traveling to Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. Following the 2010 program, Professor Huang was able to help secure summer internships in Shanghai for six UVa students: Peggy Chang, Megan Driscoll, and Ernesto Rementilla worked at Turenscape; Julie Tumasz and Jessica Underhill worked at EADG; and Karen Hamrick worked at AECOM. Associate Professor of Architecture Phoebe Crisman will co-teach the 2011 program.
India
New Initiatives in Delhi In mid-November, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture Peter Waldman and graduate student Lauren Hackney (BSArch’05, MLA+MArch’11) traveled to Delhi, India to attend a U21-sponsored conference. The conference brought together geomorphologists, statisticians, environmental scientists, and students at Delhi University to study the Yamuna River through hydrological, quantitative, and qualitative and cultural lenses. While in Delhi, Waldman met with alumnus Pankaj Vir Gupta (BSArch’93), who gave this year’s Open House lecture for prospective graduate students and will be the Harry S. Shure Visiting Professor during the 201112 academic year. Following Gupta’s visit in April, his firm, vir.mueller architects, has offered to sponsor annual summer internships for one undergraduate architecture student and one graduate architecture student, beginning this year. The student interns will spend six to eight weeks in India, working on projects with Gupta’s firm in Delhi, as well as traveling around the country.
The UVa School of Architecture seeks to establish a deeper appreciation for Asian environmental design culture among the School community and beyond by expanding our partnerships in China and India across several departments. The hiring of the Weedon Chair signals a new Asian focus for the School, and positions us among the nation’s leading programs in fostering a long-term relationship with the Asian world.
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Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture Edward Ford has received an International Faculty Research Fellowship for his proposal, “Building India: Chandigarh, New Delhi, and Ahmadabad.” Ford will travel to India this year to study the work of Edwin Lutyens, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier, all of whom completed major projects in India, working in a building culture and technological climate different in almost every way from those from which they came. All to a degree preferred this building culture as it offered opportunities to use the archaic technologies they admired in the buildings of history. All of their constructional intentions were in turn transformed by the difficulties of getting the buildings built so that image and reality are often in dissonance. Ford intends to study in detail the results of these cross-cultural transformations, not of building imageries but of constructional typologies and methods.
Graduate student Ryan Ives (MLA’11) mounted an exhibit at the UVa School of Architecture in April titled, “Nyin Yul Tshari Zhi--The Four Villages in a South Facing Sunny Valley Landscape, Representation and Adaptation in Nyinba Valley, Nepal.” As the recipient of the 2010 Benjamin C. Howland Traveling Fellowship, Ryan traveled to Humla, Nepal to document the ways in which the people of the Nyinba Valley have successfully adapted the landscape and their cultural practices to live in extreme conditions. Through the use of time-lapse photography, sound recordings and panoramas, Ives immerses the viewer in a landscape representation of this beautiful and harsh region of the Himalayas. This field work was completed in collaboration with David Citrin, an anthropology PhD candidate from the University of Washington. The mappings and diagrams were completed under the advisement of Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Jorg Sieweke.
In 2010, Associate Professor of Architecture John Quale completed research on the Japanese housing industry while on a Fulbright Fellowship with the University of Tokyo Department of Architecture in Japan. His research focused on the overlap between sustainable design, prefabricated construction and affordable housing, all topics that intersect with the issues he explores as director of the ecoMOD project. Since the recent earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan, Quale has been in contact with colleagues there, and remains optimistic that the Japanese housing industry has the capacity to respond effectively to the situation. Quale also continues to focus on similar issues in the European housing industries, which began during his time as the Thomas Jefferson Fellowship at Cambridge University, Downing College.
Chandigarh, New Delhi, and Ahmadabad
Benjamin C. Howland Traveling Fellowship
The Japanese Housing Industry
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Mediterranean Basin
The Veneto Region
Sea Crossings
Mediterranean Crossroads
In 2010, the Vicenza summer study abroad program celebrated 35 years of introducing students to Italian culture, city planning, and the art of drawing. Associate Professor of Architecture Charlie Menefee serves as director of the program, which was founded by Mario di Valmarana in 1975. Valmarana also founded the Venice program, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2010. Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Jorg Sieweke led the spring semester graduate Venice studio, traveling with his students to Venice over spring break. From that trip, Sieweke and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Julie Bargmann have been invited to lecture at the upcoming Adaptive Cities Conference that will be held at IUAV (University of Venice) in October 2011.
In November 2010, the School of Architecture hosted the symposium, “Sea Crossings: Rethinking Mediterranean Architecture and History.” This event featured a slate of internationally renowned speakers who explored the conceptual and practical challenges of bringing a broader geographic view of the Mediterranean to the study of objects, buildings, and landscapes. While specializing in different regions and periods, from Islamic Spain to Norman Sicily, the Ottoman Empire, and modern Egypt, the speakers shared the ambition of expanding their discussion across traditional boundaries, opening new avenues for future research and introducing the UVa community to a more global history of architecture. “Sea Crossings” was organized by Department of Architectural History faculty Cammy Brothers, Sheila Crane, and Lisa Reilly; and was sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs.
Assistant Professor of Architectural History Sheila Crane is the author of a new book published by the University of Minnesota Press. Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture examines how mythic ideas about Marseille helped to shape its urban landscape. Crane has also received an International Faculty Research Fellowship that will support a trip to Algiers for her new research on Abderahman Bouchama (1910–1985), the only native Algerian to be officially licensed as a professional architect when Algeria gained its independence in 1962. The resulting book chapter, “Making Mute Arches Sing: Theorizing Architecture’s Future Past in Post-Revolutionary Algeria,” is to be included in Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, a two-volume anthology edited by Nnamdi Elleh, which will be published by Princeton Architectural Press.
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Work in this area builds upon foundations established by the Sea Crossings: Rethinking Mediterranean Architecture and History symposium. New avenues of research and ways of teaching a more global history of architecture are emerging by exploring the conceptual and practical challenges of bringing a broader geographic view of the Mediterranean to the study of objects, buildings, and landscapes.
Visiting Assistant Professor
B. Deniz Çalis Kural
Instanbul: City at the Threshold
B. Deniz Çalis Kural joined the School
Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean for Research Phoebe Crisman has received an International Faculty Research Fellowship to build upon her research from the Learning Barge. Crisman will travel to Istanbul, Turkey to investigate innovative sustainable designs for urban settlements in vulnerable coastal areas threatened by sea level rise, environmental degradation, and the loss of cultural heritage. She plans to connect this research to her Global Sustainability course through the creation of a new case study. Crisman will work with Visiting Assistant Professor Deniz Çalis Kural to cultivate future teaching and research collaborations between the School of Architecture, the Istanbul Technical University, and Istanbul Bahcesehir University.
of Architecture for the 2010–11 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Architectural History Department. Kural is an architect and historian of Ottoman architecture and landscape culture who practices and teaches in Istanbul, Turkey. She has published extensively on the architecture and landscape architecture of the Islamic world, and is currently writing a book on the deviant landscape culture of Ottoman Sufis from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. While at UVa, Kural presented a public lecture on her research, “Deviant Sufi Rituals in Ottoman Landscape,” and taught lecture courses and seminars on topics including Islamic Architecture, Istanbul, and Ottoman Gardens. Two students from her seminar are continuing their research this summer and have received a grant to work with Kural’s architecture firm in Istanbul.
Rome, Italy
Carlo Pelliccia Fellowship As the 2010 Carlo Pelliccia Fellow, Jonathan Coble (MUEP+MArch’11) investigated four sites in the historic center of Rome, Italy. “If there is a cumulative lesson from these exercises it is this: urban space requires precise definition and calibration over time,” Coble stated. “The walls of adjacent buildings, the division of the site section or urban transect by large urban monuments—particularly fountains— and the effects of shade, water, and the thermal qualities of surrounding surfaces all play a pivotal role in the use of a given space. In addition, diversity of scale in the paths approaching an urban setting can create moments of discovery and revelation, whereas repetitious or overly expansive thresholds can leave even the most engaging urban room uninteresting.” Coble mounted an exhibit of his work, titled, “Speculare Sullo Spettacolare: Sites of Spectacle and Accretive Urbanism in Rome,” at the UVa School of Architecture in March.
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Iñaki Alday
Brancusi in Romania
Student Fellowships in France / Fontainebleau and Nix
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Associate Professor of Architecture and Art Sanda Iliescu has received an International Faculty Research Fellowship to conduct research on sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Tirgu Jiu and Bucharest, Romania this summer. This research will contribute significantly to Iliescu’s current research and teaching. She is currently working on the manuscript of a new book, tentatively titled Art and Life: Ten Lessons for Beginning Architects and Artists. Based on her course “Lessons in Making,” this book will explore the creative process in an interdisciplinary way. Brancusi’s work reflects cross-cultural influences and spans the traditions of Eastern and Western Europe. In this respect Iliescu’s field research on Brancusi’s work will build upon and expand the foundations of the Sea Crossings Symposium, as well as the School’s interest in expanding and deepening our understanding of the Mediterranean region.
Tina Cheng (BSArch’07, MArch’11)
Chair of the Department of Architecture Chair of the Department of Architecture. A nationally and internationally recognized practicing architect, Alday is principal of aldayjover architecture and landscape in Barcelona, an office founded in 1996 with partner Margarita Jover. The firm specializes in works of public architecture, urban space and landscape, and has received numerous design awards, including the FAD Prize of City and Landscape and the European Urban Public Space Prize. Alday was born in Zaragoza, Spain and received his degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Vallès School of Architecture in Barcelona. He has held Visiting and Associate Professor positions in the Vallès School of Architecture, as well as Visiting Professor or Lecturer positions in several architecture and landscape programs. Alday and Jover gave the 2010 Benjamin C. Howland Memorial Lecture, entitled, “Beautiful Floods,” which is now featured in the student journal, Lunch 6: Systems. Alday’s appointment will begin August 1, 2011.
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studied at the Ecoles d’Art Americaines de Fontainebleau as the 2010 recipient of the Barkley-Tappe Prize. This unique summer program for both musicians and architects allows participants to spend the month working on four week-long group projects, each focusing on a different topic: urbanism; architecture; landscape; and music theatre/performance and architecture. Justin Hershberger (BSArch’05, MArch’11) and Charles Sparkman (Expected MArch’12) each mounted an exhibit at the UVa School of Architecture in March following their research in France as recipients of the 2010 Sarah McArthur Nix Fellowship. Hershberger studied Ronchamp and Le Raincy. His exhibit was entitled, “Concrete Investigations.” Sparkman studied four urban public spaces in Paris: Les Halles, Beaubourg/Pompidou, Cour Napolean, and Avenue des ChampsElysees. His exhibit was entitled, “The Spatial Origins of the City: Les Halles.”
The School proposes to create overseas opportunities in Europe that significantly enhance curriculum and research production, while helping to establish the University as a leader in international education.
Canon and Anti-Canon
Switzerland /
Architecture in Renaissance Prints
Summer Study Abroad + Landscape Architecture Internship
Associate Professor of Architectural History Cammy Brothers has received an International Faculty Research Fellowship to support the creation of an online catalogue of original architectural drawings and prints from Italy, Spain, and France. The online catalogue will accompany an exhibit Brothers is co-curating at the University of Virginia Museum of Art scheduled to open in August, 2011, as well as a new graduate seminar she will teach in the fall and a symposium to be held in October. The course will explore how the medium of print could be used not only as a means of canonizing classical forms, but also for disseminating throughout Europe an alternative, more varied and heterogeneous vision of the antique. The show centers on a set of richly detailed and highly unusual architectural prints held by the University of Virginia. They will be exhibited with drawings, prints and treatises that demonstrate the variety of interpretations of the classical tradition that proliferated in sixteenth century Europe.
Sustainable Europe, a new summer study abroad program led by Research Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Suzanne Morse Moomaw, is offered jointly by the UVa School of Architecture and Virginia Tech planning programs. Based in Switzerland, the course consists of three interrelated modules and will contrast trends, planning and policies in sustainability, urban development, and transportation in Europe and the U.S. Switzerland ranks as the most globally competitive country in the world and is a leader in innovative sustainability practices. This dynamic provides the perfect opportunity to understand the positive synergy of economics and sustainability. Also in Switzerland, Kirsten Ostberg (Expected MLA’12) was one of nine U.S. landscape architecture students selected for a 2010 summer internship to study the grounds surrounding the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and draft a sustainable landscape design that can be phased in over the next five years.
Visiting Lecturer
Tijana Vujosevic Tijana Vujosevic joined the School of Architecture for the 2010–11 academic year as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Architectural History. Vujosevic holds a Master of Architecture from Yale and a Ph.D. in History and Theory from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her current research focuses on the architectures of the everyday in 1920s and 1930s Russia, concentrating on the architecture of the collective bath, the aesthetics of the metro as a public everyday space, and the architectural expertise of the Stalinist housewife. During her stay with us, she taught courses on Modern Architecture, Architecture and Femininity, and the History of Utopia.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Oslo, Norway
The DIS Study Abroad Program provides an opportunity for fourth-year undergraduate architecture students to participate in a semester-long study abroad experience with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Copenhagen. All classes are taught in English by Danish Faculty. Through studio courses, electives and study tours, UVa students are able to interact with and learn from Danish architects and designers, as well as their peers from other institutions. Students gain a good understanding of contemporary Danish, Scandinavian, and European architecture, design, and theory, and learn to recognize and analyze the effects of cultural, economic, and political life on architecture and design, and vice versa. This long-standing program of the Architecture School provides a unique opportunity for students to experience new situations and build and develop leadership skills for a globalized world. Undergraduate Director of Architecture Betsy Roettger serves as program director.
Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities Timothy Beatley traveled to Oslo in May 2010 to participate in the Green Oslo Forum. His article, “Biophilic Oslo,” will appear in a forthcoming book. Oslo is one of the cities included in Beatley’s Biophilic Cities Project. In his book Biophilic Cities (Island Press 2010), Beatley not only outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, but provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements ”from the building to the regional level” around the world. From urban ecological networks and connected systems of urban greenspace, to green rooftops and green walls and sidewalk gardens, Beatley reviews the emerging practice of biophilic urban design and planning, and tells many compelling stories of individuals and groups working hard to transform cities from gray and lifeless to green and biodiverse.
DIS Study Abroad Program
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The Netherlands Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Kristina Hill is a member of the Water Research Steering Committee for Universitas 21 that funded an international workshop in January 2010 in Rotterdam. She led a workshop that brought together people from Spain, Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Japan, and the U.S. to found a network of researchers interested in how seaport cities in particular will adapt to climate change. In 2009 and 2010, Hill was invited to participate in the last two of three “Dutch Dialogues” events sponsored by the Dutch Embassy and held in New Orleans. A book was produced from the second one, and another book is expected from the third. Hill is also part of a DutchAmerican consulting team, led by Waggoner and Ball Architects, that recently won the contract to design a comprehensive Water Management Plan for New Orleans. In addition, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Jorg Sieweke participated in the U21 Workshop on Portcities in Rotterdam in February 2010.
The School seeks to deepen and sustain existing international partnerships in this area, generate new collaborations, and foster more globally engaged teaching.
Robertson Visiting Professor
Lionel Devlieger
London and Cambridge, England
Lionel Devlieger, founding partner of
Associate Professor of Architecture
Rotor vzw in Brussels, Belgium, served as the 2011 Robertson Visiting Professor. Curator of the acclaimed Belgium pavilion at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, Rotor is a collective founded in 2005 as a group of people with a common interest in material flows in industry and construction. Rotor’s recent projects include “Ex Limbo,” an art exhibition for Prada in Milan that opened during the international design fair Salone del Mobile. While at UVa, Devlieger and Distinguished Lecturer Lucia Phinney led an option studio entitled “Tools for Conviviality,” which sought to understand the wood industry in Virginia and how its waste products might be reused. Devlieger also gave a public lecture entitled, “Rotor tales: Some tentative guidelines for solving (design) problems in team,” in which he described how Rotor functions to produce (design) solutions to specific problems, and both the necessity and the difficulty of doing research as a designer.
William Sherman has received an International Faculty Research Fellowship to support the establishment of a research relationship with the Martin Center for Architectural and Urban Studies at Cambridge University, UK. Sherman will travel to England this summer to meet with researchers in Cambridge and practitioners in London who are global leaders in developing integrated design strategies. Sherman will focus in particular on three interrelated global challenges – energy supplies stretched by global development, climate change and increasingly scarce potable water – and the ways in which these might fundamentally alter design practices in the coming decade, using design as a mediator of the relationship between human responses, the environment and urban form.
Dublin, Ireland
U21 Conference
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Archtiecture Peter Waldman presented a lecture entitled, “Specifications for Construction” in Dublin, Ireland in October 2010 in conjunction with the Universitas 21 Learning Environments Workshop. Universitas 21 is an international network of 23 leading research-intensive universities in fifteen countries. This year’s U21 Learning Environment Design Forum, the fourth thus far, was convened by University College Dublin. The project focused on the James Joyce Library expansion to invigorate collaborative learning environments within the University and within the City of Dublin. Previous forums in Melbourne, Hong Kong and the most recent in Virginia in 2009, which was organized by Waldman and hosted by the UVa School of Architecture, have directly informed major campus projects. universitas21.com/pastevent/101004%20learningdesigns.html
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AFRICA + the Caribbean
Falmouth, Jamaica
St. Marc, Haiti
Marrakech, Morocco
The Falmouth Field School, directed by Associate Professor of Architectural History Louis Nelson, and ecoMOD, run by Associate Professor of Architecture John Quale, are teaming up for ecoMOD5/Falmouth, a collaborative project to restore an historic home in Falmouth, Jamaica. The ecoMOD5 team spent spring break on site in Falmouth, meeting the client and studying the site. They are also designing and building a new “wet module,” a bathroom and kitchen to sit behind the home, and will return during the summer to finish the project. In addition, Nelson is serving as the conference chair for the annual meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF), to be held in Falmouth from May 31 to June 4, 2011. UVa students have been working to document and preserve historic buildings in Falmouth since 2004 and their years of commitment will be presented to this annual gathering of specialists in the field.
Initiative reCOVER, a UVa School of Architecture program directed by Assistant Professor of Architecture Anselmo Canfora, won first prize in an international housing competition sponsored by ARCHIVE (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments). Contestants developed sustainable and affordable homes that could offer attainable relief to a portion of the estimated 1 million Haitians left homeless after a massive earthquake devastated the region in January 2010. The reCOVER design, “Breathe House,” addresses the need for housing to reduce disease transmission in Haiti by incorporating such features as natural ventilation, low volume ceiling fans, and ultraviolet lighting to help circulate and clean the air. In spite of a reduced budget, ARCHIVE and reCOVER hope to have the “Breathe House” constructed in St. Marc by the end of the year. ARCHIVE will use the “Breathe House” design, along with the competition’s other top four entries, as a model for future post-disaster housing in Haiti.
As the 2010 recipient of the Murphy Fellowship, architecture student Michael Goddard (BSArch’11) traveled to Marrakech, Morocco to investigate thresholds and activity patterns within the souks. “Permeable and Demountable” is an investigation of the spaces between the city’s ancient pathways and buildings. Goddard writes, “Market spaces begin the day with a hard edge between built and unbuilt, but as the city awakens, the boundaries are blurred by temporary structures and coverings. Pathways become shrouded in local fabric against the harsh mid-day sun, beckoning buyers with comfort and flashes of color. These moveable elements shape traffic flows and direct visitors into labyrinthine passageways which can be difficult to escape without local knowledge or the purchase of some local handiwork. The spaces created by this moveable architecture are the focus of my investigation, as I am repeatedly lost, then found in the mazes of shops, mosques and workspaces of the Marrakech souks.”
ecoMOD5 and VAF Conference
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Initiative reCOVER’s “Breathe House”
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“Permeable and Demountable”
The School’s current research and curricular initiatives in the Atlantic Basin allow faculty and students to engage in the culturally diverse and economically complex context of this region. The School intends to stimulate research in Africa and the Caribbean.
The Water and Health in
Rwanda
Gita, Uganda
Building Tomorrow Academy
Limpopo Province, South Africa Project
Virginia Teaching Fellow Michael Leighton Beaman has received an International Faculty Research Fellowship to conduct a two-week collaborative research and design workshop at the Kigali Institute of Technology (KIST) in Rwanda. Building upon the work of Beaman’s nonprofit organization, General Architecture Collaborative (GAC), this workshop will focus on material technologies and construction prototyping for low-cost housing as part of KIST’s curriculum. The Collaborative Research + Design Workshops will strengthen the University’s relationship with emerging institutions in Rwanda, simultaneously helping to develop best practice methods for outreach programs. As this relationship and the potential of future studios transpire, students at UVa will gain the experience of design development and planning strategies for global communities with limited resources.
In August 2010 the Building Tomorrow Academy of Gita, a school in Uganda supported by the UVa community, opened its doors to nearly 200 students. The Academy is the result of a collaboration between Building Tomorrow, Assistant Professor of Architecture Anselmo Canfora’s Initiative reCOVER, and the Engineering in Context Capstone Design Program at UVa, run by Professor Dana Elzey. Throughout the 2007-08 school year, undergraduate architecture and engineering students crafted a design for the new 8-room schoolhouse, funded by the student chapter of Building Tomorrow at UVa and the School of Architecture. The academy is the fifth opened by Building Tomorrow in Uganda, with another five academies slated to open in the next year. Canfora and his partners on this project, including Lecturer in Architecture Jeff Pointz, were awarded the 2010-11 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award, as well as the 2010 American Institute of Architects Education Honor Award.
The Water and Health in Limpopo Province, South Africa Project is a collaboration between the Center for Global Health and UVa faculty from Engineering, Environmental Planning, Nursing, Environmental Sciences, Anthropology, Medicine, and Architecture. Together, this group supports an ongoing research project that provides a framework for fieldwork opportunities for students from UVa while engaging a Limpopo community in designing and implementing sustainable improvements in water and sanitation. Throughout the project’s various phases, researchers and students from across the University have lent their expertise and efforts to the project. Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Nisha Botchwey and adjunct faculty Karen Firehock have been engaging the Limpopo community in health and hygiene programs to ensure that the clean water systems are used properly into the future. Botchwey will travel to Limpopo again this summer to continue work on the project.
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The UVa School of Architecture recognizes the importance of bringing in prominent scholars and professionals from outside the United States, such as this year’s Thaler lecturers, in order to broaden the global scope of the School community.
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Myles H. Thaler Memorial Lecture + Symposium
Australian Landscape Architecture Internship
The 2010-11 Myles H. Thaler Memorial Lecture + Symposium featured three distinguished landscape architects from Australia: Anton James, Principal, JMD Design, Sydney; Perry Lethlean, Principal, Tayor Cullity Lethlean (TCL), Melbourne and Adelaide; and Julian Raxworthy, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). This year’s event was organized by Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Elizabeth Meyer. The symposium’s accompanying exhibit, “Sunburnt. Contemporary Practices of Landscape Architecture,” was on display in the Elmaleh Gallery. The lecture and exhibit are the result of a collaboration begun by Meyer in 2009, when she spent three weeks participating in workshops and lecturing in Australia. She is currently collaborating with faculty from the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland on two book projects, Sunburnt. Australian Landscape Architecture (SUNarchitecture, NL 2011) and a monograph, Taylor Cullity Lethlean (2011).
This year’s Thaler Lecturers, Anton James of JMD in Sydney, Australia and Perry Lethlean of Taylor Cullity Lethlean in Melbourne, are sponsoring what is intended to be the first of a series of summer internships for UVa MLA students. Jen Lynch (Expected MLA’12) has been selected as the first recipient of the UVa Australian summer internship. During the three-month period, she will split her time between the two offices and two cities. The internship provides for an honorarium as well as flights between Sydney and Melbourne and return airfare from Australia to the U.S.
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Perth, Western Australia Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities Timothy Beatley will travel to Perth, Western Australia this summer on a Fulbright grant to develop a biophilic cities strategy for Perth. His ongoing collaboration with Peter Newman from Curtin University, who was previously at UVa as a Fulbright scholar, has resulted in two published books from Island Press, Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Green Urbanism Down Under. Both books introduce successful Australian policies and practices for sustainable development and resource management to American planners and policy makers. Beatley and Newman are currently working on several articles and additional books.
Global initiatives
Global Sustainabilty Minor
Turning Urban
The University of Virginia has launched an Interdisciplinary Minor in Global Sustainability, housed in the School of Architecture but open to students from all the undergraduate schools at the University. The requirements for the Minor include a foundation course, “Global Sustainability,” which has been offered since Spring 2009. Students then choose from a range of courses from various disciplines across the University. A mandatory capstone course embraces community collaboration to address a sustainability-related issue. The Global Sustainability Minor, one of three sustainability minors focused on global engagement offered nationally, is also UVa’s first interdisciplinary minor. Phoebe Crisman, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research, is director of the new sustainability minor. The Minor is intended to empower students across disciplines in common efforts to accomplish real change through community engagement with sustainable projects in their communities and beyond.
“Turning Urban: Innovation in Megacities,” was held at the School in March 2011. This multidisciplinary research symposium posed the question of whether extremely large cities and urban regions are loci of innovation and adaptation, or whether the rapid pace of change overwhelms adaptive processes. Symposium organizers traveled to research various megacities prior to the event: Kristina Hill to London; Timothy Beatley to Dhaka; Jorg Sieweke to the Po Delta; Kathleen John-Alder to Sao Paolo; Sheila Crane to Cairo; and students Kirsten Ostberg and Brian Davis traveled to Buenos Aires. With input from international experts, the School is developing a research strategy with the potential to transform education and practice in constructed environments by focusing on creativity in difficult urban circumstances. “Turning Urban” was sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs, the Plavnik Lecture Fund, and the School of Architecture Adaptive Infrastructures Research Group.
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Innovation in Megacities
Semester at Sea Semester at Sea is a study abroad program founded in 1963. The University of Virginia became the academic sponsor of Semester at Sea in 2006. Voyages during the fall and spring semesters circumnavigate the globe and last approximately 100 days, visiting from eight to eleven countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. Summer semester programs visit various ports in Europe. Faculty select their voyages depending on the particular route and according to their research interests. This opportunity provides for our faculty to make connections in other countries, as well as with faculty from other schools. Many School of Architecture faculty have participated, or are anticipating an upcoming voyage:
Craig Barton, Summer 2012; Louis Nelson, Fall 2011; Rebecca Cooper (Librarian), Summer 2011; William Lucy, Summer 2011; Lisa Reilly, Spring 2011; Karen Van Lengen, Spring 2011; Warren Boeschenstein, Summer 2010, Phoebe Crisman, Spring 2010; Michael Petrus, Spring 2010; Hana Kim, Spring 2010 colonnade
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Daniel Bluestone, Buildings, Landscapes and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation
Sanda Iliescu, Day of Dialogue public art project
Nana Last, Associate Professor of Architecture
faculty + staff notes Craig Barton, Associate Professor of Architecture, was award-
Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture
ed a 2010-11 ACSA Collaborative Practice Honorable Mention for his project, “Reconstructing the Memory of the Scrabble School: A Collaborative Project.” Barton will conclude his term as chair of the Department of Architecture in July 2011. He was recently elected Treasurer of the ACSA Board of Directors.
W.G. Clark’s home was featured on the cover of the January
Michael Leighton Beaman joined the School of Architecture this year as a Virginia Teaching Fellow from the University of Texas, Austin. He and his students mounted an exhibit at the UVa School of Architecture in May entitled, “Proxy No. 8.”
Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, was one of two UVa professors selected as recipients of the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Awards, given by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. His film, The Nature of Cities, was featured as part of the 2010 Virginia Film Festival. Beatley and Reuben M. Rainey, William Stone Weedon Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, are co-directors of the School of Architecture’s new Center for Design and Health, which was launched in May 2011.
Daniel Bluestone, Associate Professor of Architectural History and Director of Historic Preservation, is the author of a new book published by W.W. Norton Press, Buildings, Landscapes and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation. Bluestone organized the “Keeping Memory Green” symposium held at the School of Architecture in April.
Warren Boeschenstein, Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Architecture, retired in May 2011 after 38 years at UVa.
Cammy Brothers, Associate Professor of Architectural History, received the Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture. Her article on Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library was featured in the September 11, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal. Brothers has been named by Dean Kim Tanzer the School’s next Valmarana Professor. 16 | University of Virginia School of Architecture
2011 issue of Cville Abode.
Phoebe Crisman, Associate Professor of Architecture, has been named by Dean Tanzer as Associate Dean of Research.
Carolyn Esau, Assistant for the Department of Landscape Architecture, published a novella in October. “Mr. Darcy’s Christmas Carol” is part of an anthology, A Darcy Christmas, published in print and as an e-book by Sourcebooks.
Edward Ford, Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor of Architecture, mounted an exhibit, “Drawings: Analytical and Otherwise,” from February through May. The drawings are published in Ford’s third and fourth books, Five Houses, Ten Details and the forthcoming The Architectural Detail. Melissa Goldman joined the School in January as Fabrication Facilities Director. Goldman spent the last three years at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, receiving her MArch in May 2010 and working as fabrication lab assistant.
Guoping Huang will join the faculty this fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning. He comes to UVa from Harvard University where he has played a lead role for the past five years in their Center for Geographic Analysis.
Sanda Iliescu, Associate Professor of Architecture and Art, designed a public art project for President Sullivan’s Day of Dialogue. Titled “Lines of Darkness and Light,” the temporary installation was on view on the South porch of the Rotunda for ten days in September.
Nana Last joined the School’s faculty in fall 2010 as Associate Professor of Architecture, teaching history and theory. Last holds a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University, a Master in Architecture degree from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Architecture and Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Allen Lee, Associate Dean for Finance and Administration
David Phillips retires after 41 years of service
Allen Lee joined the School in April as Associate Dean for Finance and Administration. Lee spent the last decade as Chief Financial Officer for the Division of Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
William H. Lucy, Lawrence Lewis Jr. Chair in Urban and Environmental Planning, was a guest on VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network’s Income Property Investment Talk to discuss ideas from his recent book, Foreclosing the Dream: How America’s Housing Crisis Is Reshaping Our Cities. Foreclosing the Dream was selected by the American Library Association’s Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title. Kirk Martini, Associate Professor of Architecture, has been named by Dean Kim Tanzer as Associate Dean of Academics.
Elizabeth Meyer, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, has been named one of 25 nationally Most Admired Educators of 2011 by DesignIntelligence. Meyer is part of the Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates team that was named winner of the St. Louis Arch+City+River competition to transform the grounds around Saarinen’s Arch.
Louis Nelson, Associate Professor of Architectural History, was presented with the 2010 SESAH Best Book Award for The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism & Architecture in Colonial South Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Nelson will conclude his term as chair of the Department of Architectural History in July 2011. David Phillips, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, retired in May 2011 after 41 years with UVa.
John Quale, Associate Professor of Architecture, was awarded the 2010-11 ACSA Creative Achievement Award for his ecoMOD and ecoREMOD projects. ecoMOD project was also awarded the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award, an honor shared with Professor of Engineering Paxton Marshall, as well as Distinguished Lecturer Nancy Takahashi, Associate
Leigh Wilkerson, Charlottesville Pavilion poster
Professor of Architectural History Louis Nelson and Lecturer Eric Field. ecoMOD was featured in the December 2010 issue of Architectural Record and the February 2011 issue of Metropolis magazine.
Lisa Reilly, Associate Professor of Architectural History, served as Academic Dean for the spring 2011 voyage of the Semester at Sea program. Associate Professor of Architecture William Sherman’s home was Cville Abode’s May 2011 cover story.
Nancy Takahashi, Distinguished Lecturer, assumed the role of chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture in January.
Kim Tanzer, Dean and Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture, has been elected to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Tanzer gave a lecture at the University of Maryland School of Architecture and presented at several conferences, including the ACSA Administrators Conference, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), and the National Academy of Environmental Design (NAED). Tanzer will complete her two-year term as president of NAED on June 30.
Karen Van Lengen, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture, was awarded the 2010 Elizabeth Zintl Leadership Award by the UVa. Women’s Center. Van Lengen participated in the spring 2011 voyage of Semester at Sea. Leigh Wilkerson (BSArch’03), Director of Graphics for the School of Architecture, designed the winning submission for Charlottesville Pavilion’s 2010 poster competition. Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, has launched “From Village to Grounds,” a collaborative website about the University of Virginia’s architecture. Wilson will assume the chairmanship of the Department of Architectural History in August 2011.
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Delia Kulukundis, “Puddlescape: Freshwater Marsh and the Urban Matrix”
Aja Bulla-Richards, “Alchmey of an Urban Estuary”
Hu Di’s VA-ASLA winning project
student notes Taylor Baskin (Expected BSArch’13) has received the second annual Jerold Kreidler Scholarship Award, presented by the Society of American Military Engineers. Taylor was one of 12 students recognized by SAME for academic excellence and professional potential.
Lauren Begen (Expected MArch’13), Matthew Godfrey (BSArch’10, Expected MArch’12), and Yi Li (Expected BSArch’12) were each selected as recipients of the 2011 Sarah McArthur Nix Fellowship. This fellowship provides for students to travel to France to pursue independent study of architecture during the summer. Lauren will examine various forms and gradient conditions of the typical Parisian window; Matthew plans to explore the public spaces of Paris through a rigorous exercise in drawing and recording ground conditions; and Yi will compare scale and connections of six specific urban plazas.
Benjamin Chrisinger (BUEP’10, MUEP’11) was selected for the 2011 Raven Award. Each year, the Raven Society confers an Award to recognize excellence in service and contribution to the University of Virginia. This is the highest honor that the Society can bestow on an individual. Ben was also honored with a scholarship at the national meeting of the American Planning Association as the author of the top student paper in the area of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy. Ben will be attending the University of Pennsylvania in the fall, pursuing a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning. Three projects by Master of Landscape Architecture students were selected to receive national Honor Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Allegra Churchill’s (MLA’10) project, “Flood, Flow, Flux: Livlihoods on the Kafue Flats,” received an award in the Research category; Delia Kulukundis’ (Expected MLA/MArch’13) project, “Puddlescape: Freshwater Marsh and the Urban Matrix,” received an award in the General Design Category; and Sarah Shelton (MLA’10) and Aja Bulla–Richards’ (MLA’11) project, “Alchemy of an Urban Estuary,” received an award in the Student Collaboration category. 18 | University of Virginia School of Architecture
Several landscape architecture students received awards from the Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (VA-ASLA) this year. Hu Di (Expected MLA’13) and Xin Sui (MLA’11) received an Honor Design Award and Lauren Hackney (MArch/MLA’11) received a Merit Award for their National Mall studio projects with Beth Meyer. In addition, David Wooden (MLA’11) and Seth Denizen (MLA’12) received Merit Awards, and Jen Lynch (Expected MLA’12) received Design Awards for their New Orleans studio projects with Jorg Sieweke.
Tamrat Gebremichael (Expected BSArch’12) is the 2011 recipient of the Barkley-Tappe Prize for study at the Ecoles d’Art Americaines de Fontainebleau, which provides funding for one UVa architecture student to study in France as part of a unique summer program for both musicians and architects.
Maggie Hansen (MArch/MLA’10) and Suzanne Mathew’s (MArch/MLA’10) project, “Delta Matrix: Hydrology as Adaptive Infrastructure for Baltimore,” was awarded a Special Mention in the Urban Design Category of d3’s Natural Systems 2010 international architectural design competition. Their project, completed as part of Jorg Sieweke’s studio, focuses on the intersection between architecture and natural systems. Sara Harper (BSArch’11) has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Z Society Edgar J. Shannon Award. This award is given solely on the recommendation of the faculty and administration to the student in each school within the University who has contributed the most to that school through academic excellence, leadership and extracurricular involvement.
Kate Hayes (Expected MLA’13) was selected to participate in the 2011 SWA Group Summer Internship Program. The program consists of a four-week design studio in its Sausalito, California office, and will be followed by traditional individual internships in SWA’s six national offices. Kate was among five other students to be selected from a national pool of applicants.
Maggie Hansen and Suzanne Mathew, “Delta Matrix: Hydrology as Adaptive Infrastructure for Baltimore”
Renee Pean, Jenny Jones, and Randall Winston with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Photo by Jayne Oncea. Courtesy of Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Jennifer Jones (MLA/MUEP’10), Renee Pean (MArch/ MUEP’10), and Randall Winston (MArch’11) were awarded first place in the Student Category of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI–ARC) Los Angeles Cleantech Corridor and Green District Competition in October 2010. The competition asked students and professionals to create an innovative urban vision for the Cleantech Corridor, a 2,000–acre development zone on the eastern edge of downtown Los Angeles.
Katy Lasdow (MAH’11) has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)/Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship. Katy was honored at the SAH annual meeting in New Orleans with the $10,000 fellowship, which permits an architectural historian to work on a 12-week HABS project during the summer.
Yi Li (Expected BSArch’12) was awarded the School of Architecture’s 2011 Kyle Kauffman Award in March. This award is given annually to the rising fourth year architecture student nominated by his/her peers, who best exemplifies the outstanding qualities of Kyle Frances Kauffman (BSArch’85). Yi Li was also selected as the recipient of the 2011 Murphy Fellowship for study abroad. She plans to use this funding to study French plazas, especially their scales, connections to the surrounding urban context and social engagement function.
Daniel Mowery (BSArch’10, Expected MArch’12) and Lauren Shumate (Expected MArch’12) were selected as recipients of the 2011 Carlo Pelliccia Fellowship, which will allow them each to travel to Rome over the summer to focus on an independent study in architecture. Through drawing, Daniel will demonstrate the transformations and interpretations of seven stairs—or processions—represented through montage, and Lauren plans to analyze and decipher how apertures mediate the boundary between specific conditions of the Roman street.
David Wooden’s winning project, “The Big Leak”
Kelly Reed (Expected MLA’11) was selected as the recipient of the 2011 Benjamin C. Howland Traveling Fellowship for her proposal, “Iceland: Landscapes of Power.” She will spend three months in Iceland, examining the influence of the island’s geothermal infrastructure on the formation of its cities and public spaces. Also supporting her work there in the fall, Kelly was able to secure a spot as a visiting scholar at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Three projects from UVa Master of Landscape Architecture students were selected for publication by the DeltaCompetition, an international competition that challenged students to formulate creative solutions for adapting the delta cities of the world to climate change impacts. David Wooden’s (MLA’11) project, “The Big Leak,” was selected as one of the three winning entries. He received $3,000 and an expenses–paid trip to Rotterdam to present his work at the Deltas in Times of Climate Change conference. Two additional UVa projects were also selected for publication: “Baltimore Water Works,” by Maggie Hansen (MLA’10) and Suzanne Mathew (MLA’10); and “Transformative Shift,” by Andrea Parker (MLA’10) and Julia Price (MLA’11).
Jessica Vanecek (Expected BSArch’12) has been named the 2011 Steamboat Scholar. This summer she will participate in the Steamboat Foundation’s prestigious leadership development program and complete a 10-week summer internship with landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand in Boston, MA.
lunch: now available Lunch 6: Systems, the sixth edition of the School of Architecture’s student-run journal, is now available. Information is on the Lunch website: www.arch.virginia.edu/lunch/purchase.html
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Help the A-school strengthen its peerto-peer network and build the career resources available to students and alumni! Below are some simple ways you can connect with the School, the student body, and your fellow alumni. Lauren Nelson,BSArch’11, at Hays + Ewing Design Studio in Charlottesville, Va
networking + connections Networking
Winter Externship Program
HoosOnline (www.hoosonline.virginia.edu) Students and alumni can register to join “Hoosonline,” the University’s secure and only searchable database of alumni. It is password protected and available solely to UVa graduates. It is the only way to search for other A-school alumni, or alumni in your area, field, location or graduation year. This is the best resource for networking and (re)finding friends. Please sign up today or if you are already a member, please sign on and update your contact information. There are only 500 A-school alumni currently listed and many have out-of-date information.
More than 100 School of Architecture students participated in winter externships this year with sponsoring firms and organizations across the country. This annual program, coordinated by Ellen Cathey in her role as Director of Outreach, allows both 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.
Career Resources Job Postings (www.arch.virginia.edu/career/jobs) If your company, firm or organization has a job opening or internship/externship opportunity, please consider posting it on the School of Architecture website. This is a great way to reach A-school students and alumni first. Email your job description, details and application deadlines to our Director of Communications and Outreach, Ellen Cathey, at ellencathey@virginia.edu.
Online Student Resume Service (www.arch.virginia.edu/career/resume) Undergraduate and graduate students searching for externships, summer internships or full-time positions upload their resumes to this site for companies and firms to review. Consider checking this website when you are looking to fill a position with a qualified A-school student from all disciplines.
Sponsored Lectures, Fellowships and Research Projects Alumni firms sponsor lectures, graduate fellowships and research projects each year, bringing the best and brightest thought leaders to the School and attracting outstanding students and faculty. We encourage you to consider ways you and your company can give back through these types of partnerships. For more information, contact Kim Wong at kimwong@ virginia.edu or 434.982.2761. 20 | University of Virginia School of Architecture
Participating students spent one week with their sponsoring firms and organizations during Winter Break. Depending upon the individual’s level of experience, an extern’s duties can range from true job shadowing to building a basswood 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. While the percentage of confirmed placements remained similar to last year at approximately 90%, the total number of applications increased dramatically, from 80 last year to 120 this year. In light of the tough job market, many students are taking advantage of all available opportunities to increase their marketability. Not only do externships provide an excellent opportunity to help students develop their skills and gain exposure to the field, they also provide important networking opportunities. Frequently, many extern sponsors have later hired the students for summer internships or full-time jobs. The benefits to the sponsoring firm or organization are also great—extern sponsors appreciate the opportunity to observe the capabilities and interests of motivated School of Architecture students and can benefit from their skills, knowledge, and fresh ideas. Many sponsors also utilize the extern experience as a mentoring opportunity, or as a way to give back to the school. To find out how your firm can participate in this valuable exchange in 2012, please contact Kim Wong at kimwong@ virginia.edu or 434.982.2761.
2011 2011 extern sponsors Virginia ACG Architects Bruce Wardell Architects Bushman Dreyfus CCDC CVT Contracting David Jameson Design Build Office D.I.R.T. Formwork Hays + Ewing Design Studio HKS, Inc. Journey Through Hallowed Ground
New York Architectural Research Office Cicognani Kalla Architect Dirtworks Eisenman Architects Ennead Architects Foster & Partners FX Fowle LTL Architects Mathews Nielson Michael Van Valkenburgh NBBJ OMA
Massachusetts
Lessard Group Michael Vergason Landscape Architects Nelson Byrd Woltz Onyx Group SMBW Stoa Design + Construction Susan Woodward and Notkins Train and Partners VMDO William McDonough & Partners
Peter Gluck + Partners Platt Byard Dovell White Scape SLCE Smith Miller Hawkinson Snohetta SO-IL SOFTlab Thread Collective Tod Williams + Billie Tsien Architects W Architecture WE Design
washington, DC Bowie Gridley Architects Cole Prevost David M. Schwarz Architects FORMA Design Landscape Architecture Bureau (LAB)
Lee & Associates National Trust for Historic Preservation Robert Gurney Architects Studios Architecture Urban Land Institute (ULI)
Maryland
ILlinois
Baltimore City Dept of Planning Biohabitats SVR Design Group Ziger/Snead Architects
OWP/P Wheeler Kearns Architects
OHIO Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
Wisconsin City of Milwaukee Redevelopment Authority
Florida
North Carolina
Arquitectonica
Frank Harmon Architect Odell Associates
Tennessee Earl Swensson and Associates
South Carolina Studio A, Inc.
California CMG Daly Genik Architects Hargreaves Associates Lutsko Associates Landscape Architects
Mia Lehrer + Associates Moore Iacofano Goltsman Morphosis Office of Cheryl Barton Scrafano Architects Urban Studio
Washington
UTAH CRSA
Behnisch Architekten Boston Dept of Neighborhood Development Kennedy + Violich Leers Weinzapfel
Maryann Thompson Architects Mik Young Kim Reed Hilderbrand Richard Burck Associates Stephen Stimson Associates Utile, Inc.
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Lorna Jordan, Environmental Artist Olson Kundig Architects
Kieran Timberlake Associates MGA Partners
Centerbrook
Oregon
Arizona Ten Eyck Will Bruder + Partners
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Peyton Boyd (BArch’71), recipient of the William C. Noland Medal
Stephen Bingler (BSArch’72), Concordia, Nexus Center
Lake|Flato Architects, Arizona State University Polytechnic academic buildings
alumni notes Alumnus Reflects on Life in the A-School Thomas Leachman (BSArch’29), our oldest living alumnus, celebrated his 103rd birthday in 2010. He recently recorded his memoirs, a 43-page document including a very detailed account of life in the A-School. An excerpt reads, “The first Beaux Arts Ball was in the 1925 school year when Joseph Hudnutt was Dean of the A-School. He and a committee approved of mounting thin beaver board panels over the walls and windows of the large space of the A-School. It is quite possible tables, stools, and other items were stored downstairs and the balcony, leaving a clear dancing floor. The mounted panels provided ample space for some of the A-students to “roast” their professors with caricatures of painted line drawing, recognizable expressions and appropriate surroundings—all in color! Also included were University landmarks, buildings and other motifs. One design was an oblique perspective of the new downtown Methodist Church designed by Dean Hudnutt. The church had about a six or seven foot rise of broad white marble steps leading from the sidewalk up to the four columned portico entrance. In the extrapolated picture, the students indicated a waterfall flood of white steps descending to the street! I did not hear a comment by the Dean.”
UPDATE: History of the School At the request of Dean Kim Tanzer, Cary D. Langhorne Professor Emeritus of Architecture K. Edward Lay has been busy compiling and writing a chronological and oral history of the UVa School of Architecture. Thanks to all who contributed to what promises to be a remarkable collection of stories and memories, as well as a comprehensive account of the School’s history. We thank Professor Lay for all his hard work on this momentous undertaking and look forward to seeing the finished publication by the end of this year.
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1965 The Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America presented Calder Loth (BAH’65, MAH’67) with the Board of Directors Honor at the 2010 Arthur Ross Awards ceremony in New York. The Honor has been given only twice before and is presented only to individuals whose career and accomplishments transcend established categories and “combine such a record with direct service to the ICA&CA itself in terms of pedagogy, support and mission-driven good will.” Previous recipients are Robert A. M. Stern and Alvin Holm. Loth is the retired Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources where for forty-one years he has been instrumental in the preservation and renovation of innumerable properties throughout the state. Loth currently serves as a member of the University of Virginia Historic Preservation Advisory Committee.
1971 Peyton Boyd (BSArch’71) was presented with the highest honor bestowed upon an architect by the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects, the William C. Noland Medal. Boyd was honored during the annual Visions for Architecture gala at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in November. In making this award, the Society recognized not only decades of dedicated and generous service to the profession, but also Boyd’s impassioned and public advocacy of good design.
1972 Steven Bingler’s (BSArch’72) firm, Concordia, was named one of six “game changers” for Metropolis magazine’s January 2011 30th anniversary edition. The article, written by Metropolis’ Executive Editor Martin C. Pedersen, focused on Nexus centers and was subtitled, “The key to New Orleans’s rebirth may lie in an unprecedented overhaul of its education system that puts public schools at the center of community services.”
Jeffrey Luney (BSArch’77), Villa Rotunda
Fairfax and Sammons, PC, Andorra Rendering: A Placa in the Pyrenees
Lori Snyder Garrett (MArch’86)
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James Boyd (BSArch’75) was honored with the Virginia Society AIA’s Award for Distinguished Achievement during the annual Visions for Architecture gala at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in November.
Steve Wassell (BSArch’84) has now published books on both
David Lake’s (ND’75) firm, Lake|Flato Architects, was named a finalist in the Architecture Design category in the 2010 CooperHewitt National Design Awards program.
1976 Thomas H. Bishop (BSArch’76) – see item under “Jane Simoni Cooke” in 1988.
Robert Moje (BSArch’76, MArch’80) was honored with the Virginia Society AIA’s Award for Distinguished Achievement during the annual Visions for Architecture gala at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in November.
1977 Jeffrey Luney’s (BSArch’77) current practice focuses on forensic architecture and building envelope consulting. He is the co-author of Expert Witnesses: Construction Cases. In recent years he has presented to the CMAA on how to manage the risks of design and construction defects; served as Lecturer at Stanford University; and exhibited his artwork in a group show in San Francisco, “Architects as Artists.”
Robert E. Nalls (BSArch’77), Adjunct Professor at Drexel University’s Antionette Westphal College of Media Arts and president of Nalls Architecture, Inc., was presented with the Laura S. Campbell Award for Teaching Excellence by Drexel University.
1983 Cara Carroccia’s (BSArch’83, MArch’86) firm has received a 2010 Merit Award from the Delaware Chapter of the AIA for the Horton + Alonso Residence, Renovation and Addition.
Palladio and Alberti. His new book, just out this year, is The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti, co-authored with Kim Williams and Lionel March. This follows his 2006 offering entitled Andrea Palladio: Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese, co-authored with Branko Mitrovic.
1985 Anne Fairfax (BSArch’85) and Richard Sammons (MArch’86), owners of Fairfax and Sammons, PC with offices in New York, Palm Beach and Charleston, received a 2010 Charter Award from the Congress for New Urbanism for their design of a new neighborhood in St. Julia de Loria, Andorra. They also received two 2010 project awards from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America Southeast Chapter. The first of these was for a residence in Cooperstown, NY and the second was for an urban planning design for Marion Square in Charleston, SC.
Eric Groft (MLA’85), Principal at Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc, has been named a member of the Garden Design Advisory Board by Garden Design Magazine.
1986 Lori Snyder Garrett (MArch’86), Senior Principal and Vice President at Glavé & Holmes Architecture in Richmond, VA, was awarded the first annual Women in Architecture and Design ATHENA Leadership Award during the 2010 Women’s Leadership Development Summit. Presented by ATHENA International and the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the award celebrates exemplary leadership and mentorship in the design professions. Richard Sammons (MArch’86) – see item under “Anne Fairfax” in 1985.
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Margaret Maliszewski (MAH’88) and Eryn Brennan (MAH’06, MUEP’07), Charlottesville, Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series
Paul Gresham (BSArch’93), Barbotin + Gresham Architects, Media Library and Cultural Centre in Lisses, France
Susan Kern (MAH’90), The Jeffersons at Shadwell
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Jane Simoni Cooke (MLA’88) has been named Wirtz International’s U.S. representative in collaboration with Butler Rogers Baskett Architects in Manhattan. Wirtz, a family-owned landscape architecture firm based in Belgium, was established in 1948. “The Wirtzes successfully blend classical and modern sensibilities with the confidence of hundreds of years of European, particularly Belgian, landscape history,” said Thomas H. Bishop, Principal BRB. “Jane Cooke has the personality and professional insight to promote their unique message now.” Cooke previously served as the Executive Director of the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
Christine G. H. (Huckins) Franck’s (BSArch’90) firm worked with Congregation Shearith Israel, the country’s oldest Jewish congregation, on the preservation and landscaping of their 1829 cemetery on West 21st Street in New York City. Another project of Franck’s, the Byrd Residence, received the 2010 Residential Award for excellence in preservation by Historic Fort Worth. Franck collaborated with Brent Hull of The Brent Hull Companies on the restoration of this historic home.
Margaret Maliszewski (MAH’88) and Eryn Brennan (MAH’06, MUEP’07) are the authors of Charlottesville, the most recent installment in Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. The collection of images reproduced in Charlottesville tells the story of the creation, growth, hardship, transformation, and success of a city beloved by residents and visitors alike. Included are never-before-published images by local photographers, as well as the classic, iconic images with which we are all familiar.
1989 Anne Gatling Haynes (BSArch’89) is now CEO of Economic Development Corporation of New Haven (EDC). Haynes recently served as the Design Director/Program Manager for the City of New York, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. Prior to that appointment, she was a Senior Associate at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects of New Haven.
Susan Kern (MAH’90) is the author of a new book published by Yale University Press. The Jeffersons at Shadwell, which recreates in rich detail the daily lives of Thomas Jefferson’s family, was awarded the Virginia Historical Society Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography. Kern is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary.
1991 Al Cox (MP’91) has been named Historic Preservation Manager for the City of Alexandria,VA Department of Planning. Liz Sargent (MLA’91) co-authored papers presented at both “Designing the Parks I and II” symposia, sponsored by the National Park Service and held in Charlottesville, VA and San Francisco, CA. The two papers, “Vicksburg National Military Park; Evolving American Icon” and “Treatment; the New Battleground,” featured work on a recently-completed Cultural Landscape Report for Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, MS. Sargent served as principal investigator for the project.
1993 Paul Gresham’s (BSArch’93) firm, Barbotin + Gresham Architects, recently completed a new 1,420 sqm Media Library and Cultural Centre in Lisses, France. Gresham is currently a professor of architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne, France.
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Danielle Willkens (BSArch’04, MArch’08), First Place Award Winner in the 2011 AIA National Photography Competition
Simon David (MArch’09), 2011 Gabriel Prize Winner
The work of Pete O’Shea’s (MLA’93) firm, Siteworks, is included in three recently published or forthcoming books: 1000 Tips by 100 Architects published by LOFT publications (2009), 1000x Landscape Architecture published by Braun (2008) and a new book on emerging design firms by Tim Richardson published by Rockhill. The practice is currently one of a select set of American firms to be profiled in the Spanish landscape journal Paisea Dos.
1995 K.J. Jacobs (BSArch’95) was recently named Principal of McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture. Founded in 1955, McMillan Pazdan Smith is the largest architecture firm in South Carolina with offices in Greenville, Charleston and Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Asheville, North Carolina. K.J. is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Director of the Campus Studio, which focuses on Higher Education clients.
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Jordan Matthews (BSArch’10) at Kadir Has University in Turkey
2006 Eryn Brennan (MAH’06, MUEP’07) – see item under “Margaret Maliszewski” in 1988.
2008 Jennifer Walkowski (MAH’08) was the featured guest January 7, 2011 on “On Target,” the weekly radio program hosted by State Supreme Court Justice Penny Wolfgang. Walkowski is an architectural historian with Clinton Brown Company Architecture in Buffalo, NY. She is currently Acting President of the Louise Bethune Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).
2009 Simon David (MArch‘09) has been awarded the 2011 Gabriel Prize by the Western European Architecture Foundation. Over a three-month period, David will investigate Les Invalides through sketching, painting, and production of three large renderings.
Meri Tepper (MArch’04) was awarded first place in an ideas
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competition for retrofitting Long Island suburbs. The contest, “Build a Better Burb,” awarded $4,000 cash prizes each to Tepper and five other first place winners in the competition sponsored by the Long Island Index. The entry, titled “Sited in the Setback—Levittown: Increasing Density and Opportunity through Accessory Dwellings,” was developed at the University of Virginia as her thesis project.
Jordan Matthews (BSArch’10) mounted an exhibit of her
A photograph by Danielle Willkens (BSArch’04, MArch’08) has been selected as the First Place Award Winner in the 2011 AIA National Photography Competition. Willkens’ winning image is of St. Pancras Church in London, taken in January 2011 during a restoration project. Willkens is currently a M.Phil/PhD candidate (expected 2013) at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Jana Vandergoot (MArch’10) mounted an exhibit at the UVa School of Architecture in April titled, “Table in Rome: urban food as locus, ground, and flow.” As the recipient of the Reiger Graham Prize, Vandergoot spent three months at the American Academy in Rome, investigating the symbiosis between Classical Roman architecture and ancient food trade networks. www.vestudio.wordpress.com
work in May 2011 at Kadir Has University in Turkey, her host institution while on a 2010-11 Fulbright Fellowship. Her investigations of public space in Turkish-Ottoman cities may be viewed on her blog: Merhabakofte.wordpress.com. Matthews will begin graduate studies at Tulane University’s School of Architecture in the fall.
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reunions weekend 2011 June 3-5, 2011 The School of Architecture welcomed back 150 A-school alumni and their families from the undergraduate classes of 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 for a fun-filled, beautiful weekend back on Grounds. This year we also celebrated our first ever School of Architecture Graduate Reunions for the graduate classes of 1985, 1986 and 1987—thank you all for coming back! 1– Reunions Picnic Lunch; 2– Members of the Class of 2001; 3– Graduate Classes of ‘85, ‘86, ‘87 dinner at the Local; 4– Dean Kim Tanzer’s School update; 5– Undergraduate Class of 1976 dinner at the home of Nancy Takahashi and David Oakland; 6– Robin Dripps and Lucia Phinney with Iñaki Alday and Margarita Jover; 7– Members of the Class of 1991
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Introducing the Inaugural A-School young alumni council Stay tuned for more details and AYAC events coming Fall 2011 Sarah Cox (BSArch’05)* New York, NY, Christopher Donnelly (BSArch‘06) New York, NY, Alejandro Fernandez de Mesa (BSArch’06) New York, NY, Lauren Hackney (BSArch’05, MArch+MLA’11) San Francisco, CA, Bernard Harkless, Jr. (BSArch’07) Boston, MA, Sara Harper (BSArch’11) Charlottesville, VA, Elise Mazareas (MLA’09) Boston, MA, Elizabeth Milnarik (MAH’04, PhD’09) Washington, DC, Marilyn Moedinger (BSArch’05, MArch’10) Boston, MA, Diane Moseley (BSArch’04) New York, NY, Renee Pean (MArch’10, MUEP’11) Washington, DC, Kristin Sardinia (BSArch’05)* San Francisco, CA, Kyle Sturgeon (BSArch’05) Ann Arbor, MI, Emily Williamson (MArch’09) Washington, DC, *co-chairs Patrick Woods (BSArch’06)* Washington, DC
“UVa helped to shape the person I am today. As a 17-year old arriving from Ireland and not knowing anybody at the University it was quite an experience! I’m so glad now to be in a position to give back.”
profiles in giving
Marcus Simpson, BSArch’86 The School of Architecture is pleased to announce the establishment of a new endowed scholarship by alumnus Marcus Simpson. The Galsworthy Scholarship will provide funding for undergraduate international students studying at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. This is the first scholarship of its kind at the University; there had previously been no fund specifically for international student scholarships. The creation of this scholarship within the School is an important model for the University to raise additional funds to support international students, and positions the School of Architecture to extend our leadership in developing global citizens. We asked Mr. Simpson about this new initiative and how he envisions it will enhance international exchange within the School: What spurred your interest in creating this scholarship? “International students attending U.S. universities face some unique barriers: They can be caught between visa requirements and being ineligible for traditional financial aid. Also many scholarships available for international students are more focused on graduate students. “I was fortunate to have received a general scholarship while attending UVa as an undergraduate and it made a tremendous difference. From conversations with UVa grads over the years about ways they have given back to the School and the difference that has made, I was determined to do my part when I could.” How does this tie into your own experience as an international student at UVa? “My experience at the University was life-forming. It was vastly different from my friends’ who remained in Europe. I gained tremendous benefits not only from the classroom but also from the other activities one was encouraged to participate in, including work experience, volunteer work and even fraternity life. “International undergraduate students were few and far between when I attended, so it was a great opportunity to wholly immerse myself in American culture. This was a great, fun learning experience—I hope some of the learning went both ways!”
What aspects of your education within the School of Architecture do you appreciate the most? “I did not pursue a career as an architect but started in real estate development and then went into finance and investing in private companies. I find that I still use core skills obtained at the A-school. These revolve around problem solving, connecting thoughts and articulating ideas. I’m proud of the fact that my training allows me think differently from other members of the finance community who possess a traditional finance education. This difference can help to solve issues, or draw looks from one’s peers! “In the background remains a passion for design, and I still can’t walk down a street without evaluating the architecture. This passion is fed outside of work hours these days.” What are your hopes for international students who are able to benefit from this new scholarship? “I hope that international students who might not otherwise attend the University due to financial constraints are afforded the opportunity to receive one of the best undergraduate architecture educations available, and at the same time be enriched by all the other aspects of attending the University. I also hope the experience goes the other way and that the American students, faculty and staff will benefit from exposure to students with different cultures and backgrounds in their midst.” Born and raised in Ireland, Mr. Simpson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the Head of Global Private Equity for QIC in Brisbane, Australia. Prior to joining QIC, Mr. Simpson founded and managed the US operations for Altius Associates Limited, worked for Bankers Trust Company in London, and managed the private equity investment program of the Virginia Retirement System. for information on giving opportunities, including planned gifts, please visit www.arch.virginia.edu/alumni/giving or contact Warren Buford at wbuford@virginia.edu or 434.924.7717.
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campaign update 2004
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The University of Virginia’s $3 billion capital campaign was launched in 2004 and is scheduled to conclude December 2011. The School of Architecture’s goal within this campaign is $25 million and we are just around $23 million in gifts and pledges. The University has raised $2.4 billion as of April 2011. As we enter the final phase of the campaign and look to the future, the School has set our fundraising priorities and needs.
foundation notes Planned Giving
Connect
In collaboration with the UVa Office of Gift Planning, the School of Architecture Foundation is working with an increasing number of alumni and friends interested in planned giving. With a planned gift, you are able to make a greater impact than you thought was possible during your lifetime. For example, an endowed scholarship of $100,000 from the estate of Richard Dailey, a friend of the A-school who passed away in 2008, provides a legacy for Mr. Dailey and helps an outstanding student.
Stay in Touch
All alumni, parents, faculty and friends who notify the University of their planned gift, through wills, living trusts, or retirement plan assets; gifts of life insurance; charitable gift annuities; or charitable remainder trusts or lead trusts, become members of the UVa Cornerstone Society. The estimated value of that planned gift, which remains undisclosed in annual reports, counts in the overall School and University Campaign. Mary Kay Lanzillotta (BSArch’85) and Lee Becker joined the Cornerstone Society after establishing the University in their will. “We value and appreciate the importance of education and Mary Kay’s time in the School of Architecture. Joining the Cornerstone Society allowed us to assist the University in the future as we plan ours. The Foundation and Office of Gift Planning made the process easy.”
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• Consider making your homepage the A-school webpage! www.arch.virginia.edu • Sign up to receive “Weave” our e-newsletter by visiting www.arch.virginia.edu/alumni/info or www.hoosonline. virginia.com to update your contact information and email. • Join our Facebook page, “UVA School of Architecture Alumni” group. • Send us news about yourself and/or your company for the “Alumni Notes” section of Colonnade Magazine. Email ellencathey@virginia.edu.
Get Involved • Host an event where you live—from a small dinner to a cocktail reception to a panel discussion for alumni to socialize, network or learn. • Join the A-school regional committee in your city (currently, we are in DC/Northern Virginia, New York City, the Bay Area, Boston, Philadelphia and Richmond). • To learn more about ways to connect, contact Kim Wong at kimwong@virginia.edu or 434.982.2761.
Fundraising Priorities
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I. Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching to enhance curricular and applied research opportunities for faculty and students that address critical issues in our world.
Endowed Funds to build a legacy: • $5 million+ for Research Center • $2 million+ for Chaired Professorships • $500,000+ for Visiting Professorship and/or Research Fund • $100,000 for Graduate Fellowships/International Travel Fellowships • $50,000 for Awards/Scholarships
II. Diversity in Our Community and Experiences Globally - to teach our students to be global citizens, facilitate international travel, research and study, and engage a diverse cadre of visiting scholars and graduate students. III. Outreach, Lifelong Learning and Alumni Connections - to build the School’s communications and outreach, and develop alumni and professional networks to enhance the School community and our national reputation.
Programmatic Funds to support current projects: • $10,000+ for Research and Curricular Initiatives/Fellowships Discretionary Funds to address immediate needs: • $1–$10,000 for the A-school Annual Fund (including the Dean’s Forum)
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At the UVa School of Architecture, we teach our students to see the world differently. Today’s architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and architectural history students will become tomorrow’s leaders, in all fields, across the world.
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A memorial celebration was held March 27, 2011 at the University of Virginia Colonnade Club to honor Harry Porter’s life and generous contributions to the School. The family requests that, if desired, any contributions in memory of Harry be made to the UVa School of Architecture Foundation (memo: in memory of Harry Porter), or to the New Bern Preservation Foundation, 510 Pollock St., New Bern, NC 28562.
A tribute susan nelson (BLA’73) and Warren byrd (MLA’78) in memoriam:
Harry Porter 1936–2011 Harry W. Porter Jr., former faculty member and dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, died Jan. 19 at his home in New Bern, N.C., where he lived with his wife, Anne. He was 74. One of the founding figures of the School, Porter was recruited by Dean Joe Bosserman to come to Charlottesville in 1969 after having taught at the University of Michigan (1965-69) and Harvard (1964-65). Upon arriving, he established the School of Architecture’s department of landscape architecture and served as its first chair from 1969 through 1982. Later, Porter served as associate dean of administration (19821983) and interim dean of the School until he was appointed dean in 1989. During his tenure, Porter was awarded the Elson Professor of Architecture chair and the Lawrence Lewis, Jr., Professor of Architecture chair. In 1991, Porter became the first University Architect in the newly created Office of the Architect where he advised on the architectural design and development of the University Grounds. He was also the first dean of the School to live in Pavilion IX on the Lawn until he retired in 1994. In 1996, a pumpkin ash tree was planted in his honor in front of Pavilion IX, drawing a large crowd of friends and admirers from across the university. As a sign of the alumni body’s great affection and gratitude for Porter, the School completed a successful campaign after his retirement to establish the Harry W. Porter Jr. Visiting Professorship in Architecture. This program continues today, serving all four departments on a rotating basis to invite outside guest critics and lecturers each year to the School. Porter was recognized nationally as one of the country’s finest educators in landscape architecture. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), an honorary member of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA), and former president of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
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There is no way to measure Harry Porter’s influence on a generation of landscape architects, architects and planners. The founding Chair of the University of Virginia’s landscape architecture program, Harry was a distinctive six foot four presence, with long-legged strides and the gentlest of handshakes to belie his commanding stature. His broad engaging smile, generous and gregarious nature captivated countless students from the late sixties to the early nineties –students who eagerly and wholeheartedly succumbed to his contagious enthusiasm and passion to be the very best in this remarkable profession. Harry was intuitive, sensitive, inspiring and demanding. He held to the highest of ideals and fairness. We all held our breath in anticipation of his critiques. True to his stoic and sometimes inscrutable demeanor, we knew that he would find something of value in our work, but would leave us thinking we could certainly do better. Harry and his wife Anne (also a very fine teacher), opened their home on innumerable occasions to all students and faculty. Porter gatherings were a welcoming and much welcomed home away from home. A close-knit camaraderie between Harry, students and faculty was a hallmark of the program during his lengthy tenure at Virginia. For many of us it all began with the most intense and exhausting introductory summer session. He was a tireless field marshal (one entire summer program was even spent travelling across the country), and always he was as much the student as the teacher. Those summers were Harry’s version of a boot camp combined with an accelerated language immersion course. We are all out of boot camp now but we still feel its lasting effects. Insightful, playful, and enigmatic, Harry will be fondly remembered and deeply missed by so many who knew him –as a teacher, as a colleague, and as a true friend. And yet, Harry lives on within the spirit and souls of graduates world-wide and in the good works that we all strive to do. No man is an island. But Harry Porter might have been an archipelago. - Susan Nelson ASLA and Warren T. Byrd, Jr. FASLA
planning and landscape immerse themselves in the culture, art and architecture of the Veneto. He contended they provided a transformational experience for many of his students. There was no comparable library or slide collection. The students absorbed “the physical, moral and spiritual experience of living in the city,” he said. “The community is such a vital part of the experience.” Valmarana’s dedication to his students and the University of Virginia was recognized when he was elected a member of the Raven Society, UVa’s oldest honor society. His home country of Italy also recognized the work he did in this country in promoting Italian culture, bestowing upon him its highest honor, knighthood, in recognition of service to the Italian Republic.
in memoriam:
Mario di Valmarana 1929–2010 Mario di Valmarana, beloved School of Architecture Professor Emeritus, died October 13 at his home in Venice. He was 81. Valmarana joined the UVa faculty in 1972 for what began as a three-month appointment, commuting from Washington, DC where he was working with the Italian architect Luigi Moretti on the design of the Watergate Building. He ended up staying in Charlottesville, discovering and sharing Italian architect Andrea Palladio’s influence on America and modern architecture. In 1975, Valmarana established the University’s first official international study abroad program in Vicenza. Four years later, the Venice program was also founded. During his 27 years with the School of Architecture, and even after his retirement, Valmarana influenced countless students, sharing his family summer home, the Villa Capra-La Rotonda in Vicenza, as well as sharing his interest in Palladio and his passion for his native region of Italy, known as the Veneto. “Mario was a humanist and a teacher who lived civilization’s values,” UVa Emeritus President John Casteen said. “To walk through a city or the Villa Rotonda with him, to share a meal, or to hear one of his stories was an education of the best kind. He understood buildings and cities and (I suspect) people better than most people do, and he recognized quality or excellence in each. “He was the clearest of explainers or interpreters, the gentlest of teachers, the most engaged of mentors. Not many have his range of talents and knowledge and sympathies. He is a hero to a generation of his colleagues and students. None who knew him will ever forget.” Valmarana was educated at the School of Architecture in Venice and at Columbia University. He founded the Center for Palladian Studies in America and continued to serve as Vice President of the organization. He envisioned the Vicenza and Venice study abroad programs he established as “extensions of the University in another realm,” in which students studying architectural design, history,
In 2009, Professor Emeritus Reuben Rainey worked with Valmarana to produce a set of DVDs, “Reflections on the Veneto,” and a small book, A Passeggiata in Venice. In the DVDs Valmarana discusses a wide range of engaging topics, including the Villa Rotonda, Venetian architecture, and his memories of growing up in Venice. The small book contains a series of personal reflections on some of Valmarana’s most cherished spaces and buildings in Venice. In 2001, the UVa Board of Visitors established the Mario di Valmarana Professorship in Sustainable Communities in the School of Architecture. It was made possible by gifts from friends and former students of Valmarana and from the Center for Palladian Studies in America. Dean Kim Tanzer said, “Mario di Valmarana was a passionate advocate for the University of Virginia School of Architecture, his professional home for the past four decades. He was tireless, generous, witty, gracious, and kind. He is irreplaceable, and he will be deeply missed.” A memorial service was held November 20, 2010 at Barboursville Vineyards to honor Mario di Valmarana’s life. Memories and images from the memorial celebration may be viewed online at www.arch.virginia.edu/alumni/diValmarana The family requests that, if desired, any contributions be made through the UVa School of Architecture Foundation to safeguard the funding of the Venetan Programs that Professor di Valmarana founded 35 years ago. Please direct your contribution to the Mario di Valmarana Memorial Fund, payable to the UVa School of Architecture Foundation.
The Veneto Society The School of Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Veneto Society at the University of Virginia, a donor recognition society of alumni, friends and family who support the Vicenza and Venice Programs at the School of Architecture and the Mario di Valmarana Professorship in Architecture. The formation of the Veneto Society will enable the School of Architecture to provide our students and faculty continued opportunity for a rich academic and cultural experience through travel, study, and immersion in the Veneto. colonnade
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Clark-Howe Colloquium Series This year’s inaugural Clark–Howe Colloquium Series was a great success. The Series was established by the School thanks to the generosity of Clark Construction Group, LLC in memory of Professor Joe Howe (1924-2009) and in honor of his more than thirty years of teaching Construction Practice Management courses in the Schools of Architecture and Engineering. Through this initiative, Clark Construction Group, LLC and the School of Architecture seek to honor Howe’s legacy of commitment to students, his love for the construction management process and industry, and his life’s work building the contemporary infrastructure of his day. The colloquium series is to occur annually for five years as a defining component of an upper level undergraduate course that focuses on building techniques and the role engineers, construction and design professionals play in the translation of design ideas into built form. This year’s Series was part of the Building Matters course, taught by Lester Yuen, lecturer, UVa School of Architecture and Design Director, Gensler.
Susan Ross (BSArch’83), Chief Operating Officer of Clark Construction Group, LLC, speaks at the celebratory luncheon to launch the Clark-Howe Colloquium Series in March 2011.
2011 Clark-Howe Colloquium Series March 15 William Zahner, CEO and President of A. Zahner Co. topic : Metal panel fabrication and digital interface with designers
March 24 Craig Schwitter, Principal, Buro Happold Mark Goodwin, Project Executive, Clark Construction Group, LLC Ken Carlson, Sr. Vice President, Clark Construction Group, LLC topic : The U.S. Peace Institute in Washington, DC: Building on America’s Front Lawn
March 30 Phil Bernstein, Vice President, Autodesk topic : Design Technology and Practice: Future Challenges and Opportunities for the Profession
March 31 Fiona Cousins, Principal, Arup topic : Thoughts on Design
April 7 Areta Pawlynsky, Principal, R.A. Heintges & Associates topic : Transforming Architectural Designs into High Performance Facades
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in memoriam Donald E. Black Class of 1972 (N.D.)
William S. Long, Jr. BArch’49
Paul V. Davis BArch’66
Martin B. Mait MP’76
Joseph K. Eades MLA’95
Dennis E. Murphy BSArch’70
Susan Nelson Fleiss BSArch’98
Ann Cochran Myers BSArch’88
Charles R. Foster BArch’58
Robert E. Payne BArch’68
John P. Hanbury BArch’57
Robert J. Sangine BArch’60
Roy M. Kinsey BArch’44
Robert I. Upshur BArch’39
year in review August
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Gary Nabhan, Patagonia, Arizona
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Lionel Devlieger, Rotor vzw, Brussels, Belgium Robertson Visiting Professor Lecture
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John Ochsendorf Associate Professor, Building Technology MIT Department of Architecture William T. Zuk Memorial Lecture
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Mark Miller Principal, Project FROG
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Women in Design Symposium Mary McLeod, Professor, Columbia University
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Merrill Elam Principal, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Harry S. Shure Visiting Professor Lecture
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Brian Richter Director, Freshwater Conservation Program The Nature Conservancy, Dean’s Forum Lecture 30
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Sea Crossings Symposium Molly Greene, Professor of History, Princeton University; Beat Brenk, Croghan Bicentennial Visiting Professor, Williams College; Cynthia Robinson, Associate Professor, Cornell University; Gulru Necipogly, Aga Khan Professor, Harvard University; Mercedes Volait, Director of Research, Invisu; Erin Rowe, Assistant Professor of History, UVa
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Christopher Payne “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,” Reception and Gallery Talk
David Rubin, Partner, Olin Studio, SALA Lecture
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David Waggonner III Principal, Waggonner & Ball Architects William Dew International Studio Lecture
Turning Urban Symposium Janice Perlman, President, Megacities Project; Junaid Ahmad, World Bank; Monica Porto, University of Sao Paulo; Brian Richter, The Nature Conservancy; Kala Vairavamoorthy, UNESCO; Sarwar Jahan, Bangladesh University; David Bragdon, Director of Sustainability, NYC; Karin Bradley, KTH Stockholm
Pankaj vir Gupta Partner, vir.mueller architects, New Delhi, India Open House Lecture Rainer Johann Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Design Hafen-City University, Hamburg, Germany Dean’s Forum Lecture
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Keeping Memory Green Symposium Anthony E. Malkin, President, Malkin Properties
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Maya Lin 2011 Thomas Jeffersonon Foundation Medalist
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Marlon Blackwell Distinguished Professor and Department Head School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Lecture
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Eva Franch Director, Storefront for Art and Architecture New York, NY, Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecture
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Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director, National Park Service Michael Van Valkenburgh, Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Benjamin C. Howland, Jr. Memorial Lecture
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies at Harvard GSD
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Mario Gooden, Principal, Huff + Gooden Architects LLC, Dean’s Forum Lecture
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Grant Revell Founding co-principal, Western Australia’s, Indigenous Design Collaborative, University of Western Australia
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Design Thinking Symposium Bill T. Jones, Choreographer, 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree, creator: “100 Migrations”; Warren Berger, Author, Glimmer
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