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Director’s Fall Letter 2021

WAAC Students Learn Medieval Building Techniques while Reconstructing Notre-Dame De Paris’ Truss #6

Students Win Interior Design Excellence Awards 2021

Donna Dunay FAIA recognized with William C. Noland Medal by AIA Virginia

Virginia Tech Ranked #2 Best Bachelor’s in Interior Design

Spring 2022 Elective Courses

Markus Breitschmid invited to WHAT IS A HOUSE FOR series

Nexus enters the next phase of development at Payette in Boston as students in the CDR OpenLab present masterplans and digital provocations.

Portfolio Workshop

Landscape Architecture Awards 2021/22

Madison Hutchings (BLA 2021) named as one of six National Olmsted Scholar Finalists

Land Planning and Design studio went to project sites in Virginia Beach

FADING BORDERS at the Biennale in Venice

Dr. Elham Morshedzadeh honored with Young Educator Award from IDSA

Shaltanis wins Gold with Moove

Invited lecture for students in VT’s Residential Honors College: Being a Sustainable Landscape Steward at Home

Transfer Students Successfully Navigate Summer Studio and Join Design Programs

Parking Day 2021

The Center for Design Research Open Lab

Dr. Mintai Kim was promoted to full professor

Markus Breischmid at the 2021 Milano Design Week

CAUS Students Learn To Draw Inspiration From Classical Musicians

CORE77 Design Award

Professor Enric Ruiz-Geli builds the new CaixaForum museum in Valencia, Spain

Red & Blue: Retooling Bamboo Tectonics 2021

The Class of 2021

Lucie Rigaldies Receives Highly Commended for Thesis

Yasmine Katkhuda Receives the Award of Excellence

Four Students Recognized in the AIA Virginia Prize Challenge

First-Year Competition Winners

Third-Year Architecture Competition Winners

Dynamic Duo: Architecture and Interior Design Students Make a Difference

Student Design Impacts the Future of the Coast

Director’s Message

Interior Design Student Recognized in NEXT Competition

2nd Year Architecture Competition – Rural Satellite Dental Hygiene Clinics Winners

Interior Design Students Recognized in the National IDEC Student Design Competition

Crisis – Architecture Program Lecture Series

Third Annual Industrial Design Competition

Martha Sullivan Named Industrial Design Chair

Theory’s Curriculum Edited by Joseph Bedford

Aki Ishida Publishes Article

Donna Dunay chair of 2021 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion

Alumni Spotlight: Morgan & Hyland

Interview with the creators of the School's website and brand

Design the Architecture Lecture Series for Spring 2021

ASID/IIDA Virginia West Virginia Annual Awards Winners

Joseph Bedford Paper Presentation

Sarah Haase and Garrett Reynolds awarded 2020 Young Architect Award

Markus Breitschmid awarded Visiting Professorship at UDEP

Students win grand prize for TECH Together Campaign

Industrial Design Students Win “Design for Society” in the European Product Design Awards

Aki Ishida’s Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture: Material, Culture, and Technology

CAUS COVID-19 Studio Response

In memoriam: G.T. Ward, distinguished architect and dedicated alumnus

Ronald B. Gibbons receives IES Medal Award

NOMAS letter to CAUS

By the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students at Virginia Tech

Student Awards 2019-2020

Faculty and Staff Recognitions 2019-2020

inside Architecture + Design Offered Online this Summer

Fabricating Optimized Shields for COVID-19 First Responders

Arch. Alumni Elevated to AIA College of Fellows

2020 Virtual Commencement Details

2020 Stanley Abbott Award

Christopher Cheng Wins 2020 Pella Prize

2020 Pella Prize Finalists Recognized

Vern Ferguson Receives Outstanding New Advisor Award

Breitschmid in New Book on Engadin Art Talks

Undergraduate Architecture Pella Thesis Prize Nominees

AIA Virginia Prize Winners 2020

McGrath awarded 2020 Arnold W. Brunner Grant

Studio Collective Volume XIII Postponed

Bernard Tschumi

Conversation with Students

Ellen Braaten Media Award 2020

A+D Offices Closed Until Further Notice

Due to COVID-19

Naef Toy Design Competition 2020: Postponed

Due to COVID-19

IDEAS Recognized as ASID Student Chapter of the Year

Aaron Betsky named director of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design

Career Day Lecture and Reception: Bernard Tschumi

Breitschmid invited to contribute to the 2020 Architecture Biennale in Venice

Ermann’s Bubble Wrap Colonial Addition

Architect Magazine

Studio Collective recognized at AIGA Flux 2019

Academic Advisor Receives Award of Excellence

A+D’s CDR links with PAYETTE to launch immersive studio in Boston

Fall Semester 2020 – open to 4th, 5th and graduate students

Dean Bork honored with emeritus status

M.Arch Student Named 2020 AIAS Crit Scholar

2nd Year Architecture Competition – Winners

Inclusion by Design – Winners

Industrial Design Competition 2020

4th Year Interior Design Students Recognized in NEXT Competition

IDS Students featured for using Gravity Sketch and 3D Printing

Medium.com (pdf of article)

Toy Designed by A+D Alumni Sold at the MoMA

A design on seniors aging gracefully

The Roanoke Times

Helene Renard honored with emerita status

STEM Designation given to B.Arch. and M.Arch. Programs at Virginia Tech

Pro Practice “Shark Tank” Winner

Champagne Chair Competition

Architecture Third Year Competition Winners

"bring the earth as an inhabited landscape in proximity to man."
M. Heidegger

4th Year Integrative Design Competition Winners

A Great Carbon Reckoning Comes to Architecture

A+D Faculty named Most Admired Educators of 2019-20

Using data to make communities healthy and equitable

Lavine (B.Arch. ’02) Receives AIA Philadelphia Young Architect Award

“Architettura Non-Referenziale”: Breitschmid’s Book Available in Italian Edition

Architecture Exchange 3 with Jacques Rancière

Sharing Nature: Abby Chidlow

Architecture students design, build New River Train Observatory

Radford haunted tour raises funds for preservation society

Radford News Journal

Student Spotlight: David Ingle’s Transfer Process

What ICAT Has to Offer

Design Studies of the Built Environment: Exploring a transect across Western Europe (May 21 to June 27, 2020)

Spring 2020 Studio+ Sign Up Open

A Virginia Tech cross-disciplinary and cross-sector mentoring initiative for Collaborate Technology Innovation

Professor Emeritus Patrick Miller, PhD., FASLA, FCELA receives the M. Meade Palmer Award

Fall Field trip to Study Water and Watershed Issues in Eastern Virginia

Top-Ranking Programs and “Most Admired Educators”

2019-20 DesignIntelligence Rankings

Helping Stroke Survivors: Emily Heron

IDS Students to display projects at Plenty!’s Chili Feast

Bedford Launches Architecture Exchange Website

Virginia Tech vibration study aims to make footbridges better for pedestrians

Breitschmid’s work to be displayed at Triennale of Architecture in Lisbon

Patrick Miller honored with emeritus status

Knitting to Success

A.J. (Jack) Davis honored with emeritus status

Scholarship recognizes design student’s integration of technology, learning, and sustainability

Interior Design Students Recognized

Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni honored with emeritus status

Learn Fusion 360 with Bradley Turner

Samantha ‘Sam’ Synder receives the VA ASLA Award for Excellence in Landscape Architecture

The most important profession fighting sea-level rise you’ve never heard of

Virginia Mercury

Industrial Design Student Spotlight: Kai Mulligan

VT BLA Students Receive 2019 VA ASLA General Design and Analysis and Planning Awards.

Professor Michael Ermann + Alumnus David Keith to be Awarded by AIA Virginia

2020 IAWA Symposium – Call for Abstracts

ASLA VT Park(ing) Day: One tiny parklet…

18 October 2019
7:00AM – 8:00PM — Squires Parking Lot

Bamboo Research Supported by $71,000 in Competitively Funded Awards

Radford dedicates new rail observation platform

Martha Sullivan named new IDS Program Coordinator

IDS Alumnus Directed Video wins VMA 2019 for the Best Rock Video

AIA|DC Thesis Showcase Features Four WAAC Alumni

Architect of Careers

Virginia Tech Magazine

B.Arch. ’02 Grad, Barton Ross, Receives 2019 Young Architects Award

The American Institute of Architects

Industrial designers and biomedical engineers team up to address unmet needs of wounded veterans

How scientists are harvesting fog to secure the world’s water supply

PBS News Hour (video)

inside Architecture + Design: A Full Circle View

An Internal Transfer Student’s Path

5th Year Thesis Coming to Life with BarkHAUS

Hans Rott Honored with Emeritus Status

CDR Design Technology Initiative Fosters Industry Engagement with Alumni-led Architectural Practice, Hanbury

Salahuddin Choudhury Honored with Emeritus Status

Tamela Gallimore named July 2019 Advisor of the Month

With the support of the First Lady Esther Lungu, the Center for Design Research Expands its Impact Design Initiative to Rural Zambia in collaboration with the Ministry of Health

ITDS Student Wins Award of Recognition in Light Fixture Design Competition

IDS Faculty Introduces 3D Scanning Technology in to Student Design Process

Summer Academy Classes Available to Incoming Freshman & Transfer Students

Onshape Inc. Seeks IDS Faculty To Evaluate CAD Surface Model Capabilities

Elizabeth Grant Receives Sturm Research Award

LAR Alumna to Present at 2019 LAF Innovation + Leadership Seminar

2nd Year ARCH Student is a Finalist in International Open Design Competition

Faculty Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann Featured in Architect Magazine

All Aboard: Tech Students offer Christiansburg Amtrak Station Ideas

The Roanoke Times

4th Year Architecture Integrative Design Competition Winners

WAAC Students Raising Funds for Their Debut in New York

Virginia Tech Research and Students on the Interplanetary Stage with Competition Winner AI Space Factory at the Finals of the NASA 3D Printed Habitat Challenge

Valerie Poutous named 2019 Outstanding Senior for CAUS

Micajah Tucker Wins 2019 Pella Prize

Felting Research Awarded $32,500 in Grant Funding

C.L. Bohannon wins Favorite Faculty Award

Faculty & Students Honored in Graduate School Awards Ceremony

Jingyi “Jessy” Qiu Recognized for Best Completed Senior Project in Landscape Architecture

Peggy Moles Recognized with Staff Career Achievement Award

Theory’s Curriculum Launch