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Bernard Tschumi
Conversation with Students
news
Career Day Lecture and Reception: Bernard Tschumi
events
Jeff Joiner
Industrial Design Thought Leaders Series
28 February 2020
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Jeffrey Katz
Industrial Design Thought Leaders Series
21 February 2020
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Stephanie Metz
IDS Thought Leaders Series
7 February 2020
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Bernard Tschumi
Career Day Lecture
23 February 2020
6:00PM — Moss Arts Center
events
Black Mystery Month
College of Architecture and Urban Studies
23 January 2020
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Questions: Thinking…Knowing…Seeing
12 November 2019
2:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Ghiringhelli Ulmer Projects and Colours
22 October 2019
10:15AM — Villa Maderni - Riva San Vitale, Switzerland
events
“Out of Service”
Jaffer Kolb of New Affiliates
23 October 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Cowgill Lobby: Foundation Lab Workshop
17 October 2019, 8:00AM
until 18 October 2019, 5:00PM
— Cowgill Lobby
events
Fritz Schwarz
Architect Zurich
14 June 2019
4:00PM — Cowgill Hall
events
Todd Hirschfeld
IDS Lecture Series
12 April 2019
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Rick Schneider
Monday Forum @ the WAAC
18 March 2019
1:30PM — West Room, Washington-Alexandria Center
events
IAWA Symposium 2019
20 March 2019, 7:00PM
until 22 March 2019, 5:00PM
— Virginia Tech Campus
news
Career Day Lecture and Reception: Thom Mayne
news
Thom Mayne
Conversation with Students
events
Matias del Campo
University of Michigan
6 March 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Johannes Torpe
Creative Director & Design Activist
28 February 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Theresa Mozinski, “Escuela sin Fronteras”
Monday Forum @ the WAAC
4 March 2019
1:30PM — West Room, Washington-Alexandria Center
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
Industrial Design Program-Wide Competition
1 February 2019
1:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Reid Freeman
Activating Open Space
20 February 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Sara Zewde
Ecologies of Memory
14 February 2019
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Jennifer Bonner
6 February 2019
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
“Desire Lines: On Blackness + Possibility in a Green World” – Carolyn Finney
MLK Week at Virginia Tech
24 January 2019
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Thom Mayne
Pre-Career Day Lecture
24 February 2019
4:00PM — The Lyric Theatre
events
Walder Foundation Projects
Helical Pile Seminar + Demonstration
13 November 2018
10:00AM — Cowgill 300
events
Willie Cole Public Art Project Assistance
10 September 2018, 8:00AM
until 21 September 2018, 2:00PM
— Around Virginia Tech Campus
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
contact
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events
Mark Mondry, Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship at Virginia Tech
7 September 2018
1:00PM — Cowgill Hall, Room 300
events
Michael Fleming, CEO and co-founder of Torc Robotics
31 August 2018
1:00PM — Cowgill Hall, Room 300
events
Kadambari Baxi, Architect and Educator
11 April 2018
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Willem Bruijn, Architect
Sustainability by Architecture
5 April 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
David Carson, Graphic Designer
4 April 2018
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Dr. Carmen Espegel, Architect, Espegel-Fisac Architects Professor, Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid ETSAM-UPM
Eileen Gray: Invitation to an Intellectual Journey
28 March 2018
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Roddy Moore, Director, Blue Ridge Institute and Museum, Ferrum College
Do we really know what we're looking at when we're looking at the Cultural Landscape?
23 March 2018
7:15PM — Latham Ballroom, The Inn at Virginia Tech
events
W. Gavin Robb, Designer, Photographer, Researcher · Cambridge, Mass.
23 March 2018
3:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Majora Carter, Urban Revitalization Strategist
Home(town) Security
22 March 2018
6:30PM — Moss Arts Center
events
Peter Culley, Creative Director & Founder, Spatial Affairs Bureau
Mounds, Compounds, Sheds and Monoliths
21 March 2018
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Clarissa Sligh, Artist
The Path to Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book
15 March 2018
2:00PM — Hancock 100
events
Charles “Chuck” Harrison, Industrial Designer, Chicago
22 February 2012
7:00PM
events
Marc Gee, Principal, GLUCK+
25 February 2018
4:00PM — 281 Davdison Hall - 1040 Drillfield Drive*
events
Salo Levinas, Architect, Principal, Shinberg.Levinas
23 February 2018
4:00PM — Cowgill 300
events
Kofi Boone, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, NC State University
Towards a Social Resilience
14 February 2018
4:00PM — Art & Architecture Library - 100 Cowgill Hall
events
Lori Brown, Professor, Syracuse University
7 February 2018
7:00PM — Hancock 100
events
James Timberlake, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, Architect
How Do We See the Future (of Architecture)?
6 February 2018
5:30PM — Moss Arts Center
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
Kane Landscapes, Design Build Lecture
16 October 2017
12:30PM — Landscape Architecture Studio - Collegiate Square
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
Chuck Ware, Landscape Architect, Urban Designer
A Search for Meaning: Working the Deep
6 September 2017
2:30PM — LAR Studio, Collegiate Square
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
Landscape Architecture Week Guest Lectures
26 February 2016
1:45PM — Landscape Architecture Studios, Collegiate Square
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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