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Questions: Thinking…Knowing…Seeing
12 November 2019
2:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
“Out of Service”
Jaffer Kolb of New Affiliates
23 October 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ghiringhelli Ulmer Projects and Colours
22 October 2019
10:15AM — Villa Maderni - Riva San Vitale, Switzerland
events
Fritz Schwarz
Architect Zurich
14 June 2019
4:00PM — Cowgill Hall
events
Giovanna Guidicini
Performing Identity and Authority in the Civic Space: Edinburgh as an Early Modern Case Study
2 May 2019
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
IAWA Symposium 2019
20 March 2019, 7:00PM
until 22 March 2019, 5:00PM
— Virginia Tech Campus
events
Matias del Campo
University of Michigan
6 March 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Reid Freeman
Activating Open Space
20 February 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jennifer Bonner
6 February 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Walder Foundation Projects
Helical Pile Seminar + Demonstration
13 November 2018
10:00AM — Cowgill 300
events
Christian Bailey, Architect
25 October 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Andreas Jaeger, Architect
11 October 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Brett Moss, Architect
4 October 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Marlon Blackwell, Architect
26 September 2018
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Steven & Cathi House, House + House Architects
Villages of West Africa
20 September 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Michael Schnekser, Architect
Visiting Lecturer: 2018 Fall
13 September 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Willie Cole Public Art Project Assistance
10 September 2018, 8:00AM
until 21 September 2018, 2:00PM
— Around Virginia Tech Campus
events
Willem Bruijn, Architect
Sustainability by Architecture
5 April 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
David Turnbull, Professor
29 January 2018
3:00PM — Rm. 300 Cowgill Hall
events
Julian Bonder, Architect
Memory-Works: Public Spaces, Monuments & Memorials
25 January 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Tanya von Preussen, vPPR Architects, London
29 November 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Steven & Cathi House, House + House Architects
2018 CASA Mexico Study Abroad Program
25 October 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Matt Hall, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Auburn University
Ethics & Aesthetics: the Work of Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg
19 October 2017
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dylan Fuller
12 October 2017
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Antón García-Abril, Architect
4 October 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Andrew Marshall
28 September 2017
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Justin Whiteford, Architect
re:calibration
27 September 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Cheryl Durst, Exec. Vice President and CEO, Int'l Interior Design Assoc.
15 September 2017
4:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Gernot Hertl, Architect
6 September 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Nicholas Coates
The Corner: A Marker of the New, A Memory of the Past — Stories from the Study
25 April 2017
2:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Katherine Ranieri
25 April 2017
9:30AM — Hancock 100
events
Fran Silvestre, Architect
The Search for Efficient Beauty
20 April 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi, Artists, Sonnenzimmer
5 April 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Prof. Lesley Lokko, Head, Graduate School of Architecture, Johannesburg, South Africa
22 March 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
David Mann, AIA, LEED AP, Architect and Principal/Director, Booth Hansen, Chicago
Midwest Values: The Work of Booth Hansen
16 March 2017
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Weston Walker, AIA, LEED AP, Design Principal, Studio Gang
Building Impact
15 March 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kiel Moe, Director, Master in Design Studies Program, Harvard University
Our Model of Models
1 February 2017
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Stan Allen, FAIA, Architect and George Dutton '27 Professor of Architecture, Princeton University
Body of Work
31 January 2017
5:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Rob Petrie, Architect
Engaged Observations: Drawing and the Art of Inquiry
26 January 2017
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dr. Ed Jackson, Jr., Executive Architect for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Foundation
Public Art Speaks of a Culture: Historically, Spiritually, Ideologically
20 January 2017
1:30PM — Cowgill 300
events
Garrett Reynolds, AIA, Architect
Beyond Minimal: Confronting Cultural Shifts with Innovative Housing Strategies
10 November 2016
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Andreas Heupel, Architect
From the Primitive Hut to the Wooden High-Rise
20 October 2016
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Steven and Cathi House, House + House Architects
CASA Mexico Summer Study Abroad Program 2017
28 September 2016
7:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Tod Williams, FAIA, Architect
21 September 2016
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Robert Niess, Architect
Three Libraries
1 September 2016
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Sarah Wahlgren, AIAS National President
29 August 2016
5:05PM — Cowgill 300
events
Nicholas Coates, B.Arch. 2015
past. present. future.
29 April 2016
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Justin Whiteford, Architect and Associate Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York
Hudson Yards Project - Curtain Wall Design and Construction
26 April 2016
9:30AM — Hancock 100
events
Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, Architect
30 March 2016
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Laura P. Spinadel, Architect
Playing from the Inside. Interactions and operational randomness.
A new Chapter in Vienna's Urban History: the Campus WU
25 March 2016
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Anna P. Sokolina, Architectural Historian, Educator, and Curator
Architecture Profile of the Communist Utopia
25 March 2016
11:00AM — Cowgill 300
events
Kristine K. Fallon, Architect
Centrality of Information to Building
25 March 2016
10:00AM — Cowgill 300
events
Michael Murphy, Executive Director, MASS Design Group
24 February 2016
7:00PM — Moss Arts Center
events
Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, Architects
17 February 2016
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Chip von Weise, AIA, LEED AP, Architect
Concept, Cognition and Assemblage
29 October 2015
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Laurie Olin, FASLA, Landscape Architect
It Always Begins with Ordinary Things'
30 September 2015
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kalin Cannady
24 September 2015
2:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Steve and Cathi House, House + House Architects
23 September 2015
10:00AM — Cowgill 300
events
Lars Lerup, Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Professor in Architecture and Dean Emeritus, School of Architecture, Rice University
The Polycentric City: urbanism in the 21st century
16 September 2015
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Amie Shao, Director, MASS Design Group
Designing for People
26 August 2015
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Justin Whiteford, Architect, Associate Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York
Hudson Yards - Curtain Wall Design and Construction Progress
24 April 2015
3:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Ron Faleide, Architect, President, Faleide Architecture, Denver
Education, Practice
24 April 2015
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Nathan Melenbrink, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
17 April 2015
12:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Ian Colburn, Project Manager, Snøhetta
Recent Work
17 April 2015
9:30AM — Cowgill 300
events
Craig Dykers, Architect, Founding Partner, Snøhetta
4.5 Billion Years of Project Management
16 April 2015
7:00PM — Center for the Arts Auditorium
events
Adam Ruffin, Associate Director, Thomas Phifer and Partners
Corning Museum of Glass
16 April 2015
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Shohei Shigematsu, Partner & Director, OMA, NYC
Next Typologies
15 April 2015
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Peter Ozolins, Architect
Sustainability and Scarcity: Green Design and Construction in Developing Countries
9 April 2015
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jay Ryan, Poster Maker
1 April 2015
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Joan Grossman, Media Artist & Filmmaker
Cinema Space
26 March 2015
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Nasser Abulhasan and Joaquin Perez-Goicoechea, Architects
25 March 2015
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Susannah Drake, Principal and Founder, dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture pllc
New Urban Ground
26 February 2015
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Lisa Ehrensperger and Roland Frei, Architects, BSA
20 November 2014
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Alfred Zollinger, Co-Director, Matter Practice, Brooklyn, NY and Assoc. Professor, Parsons The New School for Design
Narrative Fabrications
17 November 2014
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Zach Downey, Partner, Parabox Labs
13 November 2014
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Sebastian Mariscal, Architect
13 November 2014
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Fritz Schwarz, Architect, Zürich, Switzerland
Space in Architecture
6 November 2014
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University
4 September 2014
7:00PM — McBryde 100
events
CAUS 50th Anniversary Alumni Presentations
4 September 2014
1:00PM — through Friday · 5 September 2014 · 6:30 pm
events
Christian Wopperer
25 April 2014
3:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Iñaki Alday, founder and principal with Margarita Jover of 'aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje'
22 April 2014
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Thomas Phifer, FAIA, Architect
10 April 2014
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ray Calabro, FAIA, Principal, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson – Architecture Planning Interior Design – Seattle, Washington
Humane Modernism: the Architecture of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
3 April 2014
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Mark Lee, Principal, Johnston Marklee
2 April 2014
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Paul O’Connor, City Design Practice Worldwide
2 April 2014
9:00AM — Hancock 100
events
Robert Holton, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Louisiana State University

Natalie De Blois - Her role and contribution in the design of three pivotal SOM projects completed in New York City between 1950-1960: The Lever House + The Pepsi-Cola Building + The Union Carbide Building

21 March 2014
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Tom Shiner, Architect, Furniture Designer
Completing the Space: the Unity of ID and Architecture
24 February 2014
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Katia Perini, Architect
Vegetated Architecture
5 December 2013
3:30PM — Cowgill 300
events
Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeffrey Franklin, Partners, PlayLab
19 November 2013
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ronald Rael, Architect
Full Scale Study Models
14 November 2013
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Turan Duda, Architect
13 November 2013
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Craig Dykers, Architect
1 November 2013
3:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Manuel Aires Mateus, Architect
30 October 2013
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Carl D’Silva, Vice President, Principal Architect, JAHN
Design Beyond Architecture
4 October 2013
3:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect
Body, Mind and Imagination - the mental essence of architecture
13 September 2013
3:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Craig Vetter
The Story of America's Most Prolific Motorcycle Designer
7 May 2013
3:30PM — Cowgill 300
events
George Grigg
Computers at CAUS...in the beginning
26 April 2013
3:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Neil Katz, Architect
10 April 2013
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Donna Kirk, Senior Architect and Designer
Designing for Delightful Objects
28 March 2013
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kathryn Dean, Architect
Constructive Continuum
27 March 2013
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Koichiro Aitani, Associate Professor, Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
22 March 2013
3:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Clara Irazabal, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Director, Latin Lab Columbia University
6 March 2013
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Sagi Haviv
14 November 2012
8:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Rocco Piscatello
14 November 2012
7:45PM — Hancock 100
events
Lisa Mahar
14 November 2012
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ron Stewart, AIA LEED AP BD&C
Urban Design: In Layers - A Conversation about the implementation and Impact of Urban Design from 30,000 feet to 3
13 November 2012
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Andrea Merrett, 2012 Milka Bliznakov Research Prize Winner
Organizing: 1972-1977, Research and Discoveries in the IAWA Center Archives
7 November 2012
5:30PM — Cowgill 300
events
Steven and Cathi House
CASA - The Center for Architecture, Sustainability + Art
Mexico Study Abroad Program
6 November 2012
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Steve Katsaros, CEO and Founder, NOKERO
Creating a Successful Business Model around Social Impact
5 November 2012
5:30PM — Cowgill 300
events
Davidson Norris
Light and Wellbeing
4 October 2012
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
James Carpenter
Light and Nature
3 October 2012
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dr. Dieter Breithecker
Bodies in Motion - Brains in Motion: Better learning in an enriched environment
19 September 2012
10:00AM — Cowgill 400
events
Jon Taylor, AIA, IDSA
12 April 2012
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Blaine Merker
11 April 2012
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Fran Silvestre Navarro
Three Houses, One Skyscraper and a Chair
5 April 2012
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kai-Uwe Bergmann
Yes is More
4 April 2012
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ted Landsmark, President, Boston Architectural College
What's up with the Future of Architectural Education'?
3 April 2012
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Dr. David Leatherbarrow
Facing and Spacing
28 March 2012
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Omar Bailey
29 February 2012
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Marc Gee
16 February 2012
3:30PM — Cowgill 300
events
Peter Gluck
15 February 2012
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Juhani Pallasmaa
Space, Place and Atmosphere: peripheral perception in architectural experience
8 February 2012
8:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ufuk Ersoy
Glass Utopia of Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut
2 February 2012
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dan Fogelson
16 November 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Cathi and Steven House
The Center for Architecture, Sustainability + Art: a new study abroad program in Mexico
15 November 2011
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Matthew Kam, Assistant Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
Is it possible to educate kids using a cell phone?
26 October 2011
7:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Hjördís Sigurgísladóttir and Dennis David Johannesson
19 October 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kirsten Ring Murray
13 October 2011
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Valentin Bearth
11 October 2011
5:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Emanuel Christ
11 October 2011
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Diébédo Francis Kéré, Architect
7 April 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Mikko Heikkinen, Heikkinen-Komonen Architects
6 April 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Allison Williams, Perkins + Will
30 March 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Gordon Gill, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
29 March 2011
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
24 March 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Suzanne Lovell, Suzanne Lovell Inc.
16 March 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Carsten Roth
3 March 2011
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Susannah Drake
Elastic Landscape: Seeding Ecology in Public Space and Urban Infrastructure
17 February 2011
4:15PM — The Inn at Virginia Tech, Ballroom B
events
Richard Wilson, SOM
15 February 2011
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Tucker Viemeister, Rockwell Group
9 February 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Valerio Olgiati
2 February 2011
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Nasser Abulhasan and Joaquin Perez-Goicoechea, AGi Architects
11 November 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jeremy Barbour, Tacklebox
4 November 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Rebecca Chestnutt
28 October 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Halil Dolan & Christian Kienapfel, Paravant Architectur
21 October 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Nicholas Leahy, Perkins Eastman
14 October 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ron Faleide, Faleide Architects
30 September 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
David Wagner, Wagner Murray Architects
9 September 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Steve and Cathi House
Architects
9 September 2010
12:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Doug Pierson, (fer) studio
2 September 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ellen Dunham Jones
22 April 2010
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Julie Beckman
31 March 2010
7:00PM — Hancock Hall, Room 100
events
Martin Rein-Cano
24 March 2010
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Steve Badanes
19 March 2010
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Per Olaf Fjeld
Sverre Fehn: the Link between the Immeasurable and the Measurable
17 March 2010
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Emily Pilloton
Project H Design Initiative
15 March 2010
2:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Ron Stelmarski
16 February 2010
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Peter Culley
16 February 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Michael Howe
11 February 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Matt Stegmaier
9 February 2010
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Tod Williams
3 February 2010
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Iker Gil
2 February 2010
5:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Roy Decker
26 January 2010
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jonathon Kemnitzer, IDSA
20 January 2010
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
David Eisenmann
The Set Design of Ratatouille
10 November 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jacques Gubler, Architectural Theorist
The Work of Jean Tschumi in the Context of Modern Architecture
5 November 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Eugenio M. Ramirez Ballagas, AIA, Principal, ERERAS Arquitectos, Puerto Rico
27 October 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Koichiro Aitani, Associate Professor, Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Ando's Church of Light
20 October 2009
9:30AM — Cowgill 300
events
Koichiro Aitani, Associate Professor, Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Katsura Imperial Villa
19 October 2009
2:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Hugh C. Miller, FAIA, Former Chief Historical Architect, National Park Service
Sustainability and the Principles of the Whole Building Ecology - Learning from Historic Buildings: Myths, Mistakes and Truism
7 October 2009
9:00AM — Dean's Conference Room, 202 Cowgill Hall
events
Marlon Blackwell
15 April 2009
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Eva Maddox
8 April 2009
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Juhani Pallasmaa
2 April 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Juhani Pallasmaa
1 April 2009
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Philippe Baumann
31 March 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Gravity Tank
26 March 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kirt Martin
25 March 2009
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Lee Polisano
20 March 2009
2:00PM — The Inn at Virginia Tech
events
Bruce Mau Design
19 March 2009
3:00PM — Hotel Roanoke
events
Kevin Smith
5 March 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Rosa Kliass, Landscape Architect
4 March 2009
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Gina Pollara
17 February 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jen Downey
12 February 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Urs Peter Flueckiger
3 February 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jon Kemnitzer + Brad Satterwhite
29 January 2009
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Patrick Clay, Calatrava
13 November 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
James Ruhland, Sunshine Fellow
6 November 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Carlton Abbott, Carlton Abbott & Partners Architects
23 October 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jane Wright, HEWV
9 October 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Peter Busby, Perkins & Will
2 October 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jim Burton and Michelle Timberlake, Carter & Burton Architecture
25 September 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Steve Sanderson and Zach Downey, SHoP
18 September 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
John Burke, Studio 27, Architect
28 August 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Randall Stout
9 April 2008
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Lisa Iwamoto
12 March 2008
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Gerald Maffei
11 March 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Charles Lazor
11 February 2008
7:00PM — The Inn at Virginia Tech
events
Stan Allen
Beyond Landscape Urbanism
30 January 2008
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
William Braham
29 January 2008
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Kevin Sullivan
11 October 2007
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Cesar Ruiz-Larrea
Recent Work
3 October 2007
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Joshua Prince-Ramus, Architect/New York City
The autonomous language of architecture is doomed, and why architecture schools should teach more about contracts.
11 April 2007
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Francisco Sanin
14 March 2007
8:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Perry Kulper
13 March 2007
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Galia Solomonoff
27 February 2007
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Stephen Burks
readymade products
7 February 2007
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
David Rowland
31 January 2007
1:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Keith Kaseman
30 January 2007
2:00PM
events
Jan Wilker, Jan Wilker, Graphic Designer, Co-Founder of karlssonwilker, inc.
17 January 2007
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Meinrad Morger, Architect, Basel, Switzerland
Swiss Architecture: Designing - Constructing - Building
12 October 2006
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Beat Consoni, Architect, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Swiss Architecture: Designing - Constructing - Building
12 October 2006
9:30AM — Hancock 100
events
Valerio Olgiati, Architect / University Professor, Chur, Switzerland
Swiss Architecture: Designing - Constructing - Building
11 October 2006
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Heinz Wirz, Architectural Editor and Publicist, Lucerne, Switzerland
Swiss Architecture: Designing - Constructing - Building
11 October 2006
3:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jeanne Gang, Architect, Studio Gang, Chicago
29 March 2006
7:30PM
events
Kristine Jensen, Architect, Aarhus, Denmark
22 March 2006
7:30PM — Olivio Ferrari Lecture sponsored by Hollis Froman Design
events
Jorge Gracia, Architect, Gracia Studio, Tijuana
Start
15 February 2006
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Franz Schulze
The Farnsworth House
14 February 2006
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dinos Michaeledes, FAIA, Author: The Aegean Crucible
The Influence of the Architecture of the Greek Village on the Development of Modern Architecture
2 February 2006
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jennifer Luce, Architect, Luce et Studio, San Diego
1 February 2006
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Bill Moggridge, Industrial Designer, Co-founder of IDEO
Space Matters: Work Space, Living Space, and Design Space for the Future
18 January 2006
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Craig Dykers, Architect
Materials & Space
7 April 2005
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dagmar Richter, Architect
Armed Surfaces
7 April 2005
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
John Maeda, Artist + Engineer
Simplicity
15 March 2005
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jan Olav Jensen, Architect
Precision & Tolerances
22 February 2005
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Manuel Franke, Artist
Floating Surfaces
15 February 2005
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Brian MacKay-Lyons, Architect
28 April 2004
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Herbert Kramel, Professor and Head of the Dept. of Architecture for Research, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
1 April 2004
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Yaki Miodovnik, Andropogon Associates
Ecological Aesthetics
19 February 2004
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jane C. Wright, AIA, Steven W. Gift, AIA, D. Keith Storms, AIA, Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Co.
The Millennium Plan: Past, Present, and Future of the Virginia Tech Campus
22 January 2004
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Cynthia Connolly and Jay Sanders, Auburn University
The Work of the Rural Studio
19 November 2003
8:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Ali Madanipour, Chair of Planning and Urban Design, University of Newcastle, England
13 November 2003
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Helene Binet, Photographer
4 November 2003
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Anna Sokolina, Architectural Historian
Conflicting Visions of National Perspective in Contemporary Russian Architecture
30 October 2003
12:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Darren Petrucci, Architect, A-I-R [Architecture-Infrastructure-Research] Inc.
21 October 2003
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Marc Tsurumaki, Architect, Lewis-Tsurumaki-Lewis
Architectural Opportunism
14 October 2003
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Richard Barnes, Photographer
7 October 2003
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Yasmeen Lari, Architect, President of the Institute of Architects, Pakistan
Preserving Pakistan's Cultural Heritage
12 September 2003
5:15PM — Pamplin Hall, Room 30
events
Cecily Hunt, Principal, Eyequilt, Inc., Chicago, IL
Challenges of User Research
8 September 2003
8:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Alexander Garvin, Vice President for Planning, Design, and Development Lower Manhattan Development Corp. New York City Adjunct Professor of Planning and Management, Yale School of Architecture
5 April 2003
7:30PM — Shaftman Performance Hall, Jefferson Center, Roanoke
events
Peter Leigh, Economist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC
3 April 2003
2:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Christina McPhee, New Media Artist
Naxsmash
11 March 2003
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
John McRae, Vice President, Director of Education and Training, RTKL Associates, Inc.
Continuity: Education and Practice
25 October 2002
5:00PM — Torgerson Hall, Room 3100
events
Ali Tayar, Industrial Designer, Architect, Principal architect at Parallel Design Partnership, New York
Materials and Structure
26 September 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jared Della Valle, Principal Architect at Della Valle + Bernheimer Design, New York
Material Means
19 September 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Karl Jensen, Artist, Architect, Principal architect at Portchmouth Russun, London
Materials only - the connections of things and materials
12 September 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Peter Waldman, Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia
Parcel X: Spatial Tales of Origin
10 September 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Leslie van Duzer, Architect, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Washington University St. Louis
Notes on Almost Nothing: Mies van der Rohe's Haus Lange and Haus Ester
5 September 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Andreas Becher, Becher + Rottkamp, Architects, Berlin, Germany
Der Königsweg
24 April 2002
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Gregory Luhan, First Donald and Joanna Sunshine Architecture Alumni Fellowship Lecture
Rudolph Schindler: Beyond Building
18 April 2002
7:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Susan Haack, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami
18 April 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Henry Smith-Miller, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, Architects, NYC
17 April 2002
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Lee Zwanziger, Research Director, President's Council on Bioethics
21 March 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dan Hoffman, Professor of Architecture, Arizona State University
Multiples
14 March 2002
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Helmut Bott, Professor and Chair, Urban Design, Inst. of Urban Planning and Design, University of Stuttgart
Reciprocal Influence of Cultural Structures and Urban Morphology
27 February 2002
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Charles Stone, Industrial Designer
20 February 2002
1:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect, Helsinki, Finland
Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema
14 February 2002
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Mikko Heikkinen, Architect, Helsinki, Finland
7 February 2002
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Aniko Meszaros, Architect, Toronto, Canada
Plant Anima: Biotechnology, an Architectural Jewel
6 February 2002
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP Architects
30 January 2002
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dalibor Vesely, Dept. of Architecture, University of Cambridge
Representation in the Age of Modernity
8 November 2001
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Martin Hall, Architen Landrell Ltd., UK
Building with Cloth: A Lecture on Fabric Tensile Structures
30 October 2001
7:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
J. Thomas Regan, Dean, College of ArchitectureTexas A & M University
Leadership in the New Era of Architectural Education: The Large College Emerges
26 October 2001
5:00PM — 2150 Torgerson Hall
events
Rebecca Chestnutt and Robert Niess, Chestnutt_Niess Architekten BDA, Berlin, Germany
weiterbauen [continuity in building]
23 October 2001
7:00PM — 2150 Torgerson Hall
events
Brinda Somaya, Somaya and Kalappa Architects, Mumbai, India
19 October 2001
3:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Neil Frankel
Challenges of Design Collaboration in the 21st Century
18 October 2001
5:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Mary Miss, Artist
24 April 2001
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Rick Joy, Architect, Tucson, Arizona
19 April 2001
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Eric Lloyd Wright, Architect
5 April 2001
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Garth Rockcastle, Professor of Architecture, University of Minnesota
Ethics and the Built Environment
22 March 2001
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Rainer Teufel, Industrial Designer, Principal, Design Central
22 January 2001
2:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Dr. Raimund Fein, Professor, FH Architecture Cottbus, Berlin, Germany
2 November 2000
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Alex Schaerer, President, USM U. Schärer Sons, Inc., Modular Furniture Systems, Münsingen, Switzerland
The eleven22 System
27 October 2000
1:30PM — Cowgill 100
events
Josef Bar-Pereg
The Walkmobile or a machine to get from A to B without any wheels
25 October 2000
2:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Dr. Lee L. Zwanziger, Sr. Program Officer, Inst. of Medicine, National Research Council, National Academies
17 October 2000
12:00PM
events
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Toronto
A Matter of Scale
11 September 2000
9:00AM — Cowgill 400
events
Brinda Somaya, Architect, Mumbai, India
Conserving the Old, Building the New: A Journey in Time and Space
8 September 2000
7:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Carlton Newton, Sculptor, Virginia Commonwealth University
8 September 2000
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Chris Conley, CEO, Design Research Associates, Chicago
30 August 2000
3:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Jerry Uelsmann, Photographer, Professor, University of Florida
27 April 2000
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Bill Price, Office of Metropolitan Architecture
15 April 2000
12:00PM — CAUS Outstanding Alumnus Lecture
events
Peter Bohlin, Architect
6 April 2000
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Craig Dykers, Architect, Oslo, Norway
29 March 2000
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Karsten Harries, Professor of Architecture, Yale University
23 March 2000
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Galen Cranz
18 February 2000
7:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Paul Ouwerkerk, Graphic Language
10 February 2000
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Fernando Romero, Architect, Mexico City
Y2K to PORTO or the transformation of HOUSE to CONCERT HALL
3 February 2000
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Charles Stone, Lighting Designer, Partner, Fischer – Marantz – Stone, New York, NY
Light and dark: Science and art
1 February 2000
1:00PM — Hancock 100
events
John Seely Brown, Director, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Living, Working, Learning in the e-Age Where Convergence Meets Non-Convergence
10 December 1999
3:00PM — Hotel Roanoke
events
Hugh Miller, Former Head, National Park Service
18 November 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Thomas Fischer, Dean, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Minnesota
17 November 1999
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Sim Van Der Ryn, Architect, Sacramento, California
16 November 1999
12:00PM — To Be Announced
events
Wolfgang Preiser, Educator, University of Cincinnatti
11 November 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Erik Schotte, Architect, OMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
27 October 1999
7:00PM
events
Aurelio Galfetti, Architect, Lugano, Switzerland
6 October 1999
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Lisa Mahar, Architect and Designer, Mahar, Adjmi, and Partners (MAP), New York, NY
22 April 1999
7:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Camden Whitehead, Architect, Richmond, VA
15 April 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
W. G. Clark, Architect, Charlottesville, VA
25 March 1999
6:30PM — Hancock 100
events
George Sexton, Lighting Designer
23 March 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Anne Griswold Tyng, FAIA, Ph.D., Architect, Philadelphia, PA
18 March 1999
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Lorenz Moser, Architect, Visiting Professor, Zurich, Switzerland
18 March 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Robert T. Schwartz, Executive Director and CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America
18 February 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Carter Wiseman, Former Architecture Critic for New York Magazine
12 February 1999
7:30PM — McBryde 100
events
Tom Shiner, Architect, Furniture Designer
9 February 1999
1:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Bradford Grant, Architect; Chairperson, Deptartment of Architecture, Hampton University
4 February 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Shannon Criss, Architect; Director, Small Town Center – Mississippi State University
29 January 1999
3:30PM — Donaldson Brown Hotel & Conference Center, Main Auditorium
events
Frank Russell, Architect & Urban Designer; Director, Community Design Center, Univ. of Cinncinati
28 January 1999
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Dr. Marco Frascari, G. T. Ward Professor of Architecture, Inaugural Lecture
Freehand Drawing
17 November 1998
7:30PM — Donaldson Brown Conference Center Auditorium, VPI&SU Campus, Blacksburg
events
Joseph Passonneau
Washington through Two Centuries in Maps and Images
3 November 1998
7:30PM — Haymarket Theater, Squires Student Center
events
Peter Barna, Professor and former Head of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute
29 October 1998
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Susan Haack, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences; Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami
A Fallibilist Among the Cynics
28 October 1998
5:30PM — Colonial Hall, Squires Student Center
events
Bernard Frischer, Director of the Rome Reborn project and Director of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab
26 October 1998
1:00PM — Cowgill 100
events
Christian Hauvette, Architect
24 September 1998
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Robert Irwin, Artist, San Diego
Presence Symposium
15 September 1998
2:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Dr. Karl Pribram, Scientist, Radford
Presence Symposium
15 September 1998
1:30PM — Hancock 100
events
Nancy Holt, Artist, Galisteo, New Mexico
15 September 1998
12:30PM — Hancock 100
events
James Carpenter, Artist, New York
15 September 1998
10:30AM — Hancock 100
events
Adam Caruso, Architect, London
15 September 1998
9:30AM — Hancock 100
events
Jorge Silvetti, Architect, Machado and Silvetti Associates, Boston
9 April 1998
6:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Lee Polisano, Architect, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, London
26 March 1998
7:30PM — Squires, Colonial Hall
events
Manfred Sundermann
5 March 1998
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
Tom Shiner
19 February 1998
1:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Esa Laaksonen
17 February 1998
8:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Diane Lewis
5 February 1998
8:00PM — Hancock 100
events
William Brumfield
29 January 1998
2:15PM — Hancock 100
events
James Corner
28 January 1998
8:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Robert Reuter
25 October 1997
12:00PM
events
Albert Pfeiffer
22 October 1997
12:00PM
events
Richard Williams, Architect
4 September 1997
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Uwe Nienstedt, Project Architect, Norman Foster and Partners, London
Hign Rise Design in Europe: the Commerzbank, Frankfurt, Germany
27 August 1997
2:15PM — Hancock 100
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