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Tools are catalogued and carefully stored on wooden shelves at the Charlottesville Tool Library. (Photos by Fang Yi)
Architecture

UVA Volunteers Help Build ‘Tool Library’ for Community’s Benefit

Have you ever started a project, only to be stymied by a lack of the proper tools? The Charlottesville Tool Library might be your solution. “Tool libraries are part of a larger network, part of the do-it-yourself movement and shared resources and the right-to-repair movement,” said Melissa Goldman, fabrication facilities manager at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture and one of the founders of the library. “It helps empower neighbors to start a group within your community to share tools. It provides access and training … to support homeowners and entrepreneurs and blossoming makers of all sorts.”

https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-volunteers-help-build-tool-library-communitys-benefit

The cover of the book "Restorative Cities" with a city placed in the background.
Architecture

Architecture Professor Jenny Roe's 'Restorative Cities' Selected for Book Award

The UVA School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Professor Jenny Roe's co-authored (with Layla McCay) book Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing has been selected as 2022 Honorable Mention of the Place Book Award, part of the 24th annual Great Places Awards.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/professor-jenny-roes-restorative-cities-selected-for-book-award-by-the-environmental-design-research-association?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06.08&utm_content=version_A

Julie Bargmann in her “debris garden” outside her home in Charlottesville, Va.Credit...Eze Amos for The New York Times
Architecture

How the ‘Queen of Slag’ Is Transforming Industrial Sites

The landscape architect Julie Bargmann focuses on contaminated and forgotten urban sites. The results are both beautiful and socially conscious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/arts/design/julie-bargmann-landscape-architecture-industrial-urban.html?

A mock-up of a design for the boardwalk, featuring a structure providing shade on the beach.
Architecture

Professors Cho and Jull Win International Design Competition for Redesign of Atlantic Beach Boardwalk

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Leena Cho and Associate Professor of Architecture Matthew Jull won an international design competition to select the architects to lead the design of a major upgrade to the oceanside boardwalk and surrounding areas of The Town of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/professors-cho-and-jull-win-international-design-competition-for-redesign-of-atlantic-beach-boardwalk?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6.2.22&utm_content=version_A

After getting her master’s in architectural history at UVA, Niya Bates worked at Monticello full-time until last year and is now pursuing a Ph.D. (Photo courtesy of Thomas Jefferson Foundation)

Many Stories to Tell: Alumna Niya Bates Shares African American History and Culture

Niya Bates, a University of Virginia alumna who has worked at Monticello for several years, appeared on the recent Netflix series, “High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America,” to tell a story in episode three.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/many-stories-tell-alumna-niya-bates-shares-african-american-history-and-culture

Illuminated grounds
Architecture

UVA Architecture Fabrication Labs – Collaborating and Making a Difference

On this UVA Speaks podcast, Melissa Goldman, Lab Manager in UVA’s School of Architecture, talks about the Fabrication Labs. The Lab’s mission is to provide an inclusive space where students, staff, and faculty can learn through practice by using the tools and techniques of making, prototyping, and crafting across the different disciplines of architecture. Goldman also speaks about MakerGrounds, a network of UVA shops, labs, and maker spaces across Grounds open to the UVA community and the Milton LandLab, a 172-acre experimental landscape space. Listen in to hear about examples of the small and large-scale products and projects created in these dynamic spaces.

https://soundcloud.com/user-648419957/uva-architecture-fabrication-labs-collaborating-and-making-a-difference

Francis Kere headshot
Architecture

Francis Kéré, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalist in Architecture

West African architect Francis Kéré, founder of the Berlin-based firm Kéré Architecture, is the 2021 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Kéré received his architectural degree from the Technische Universität in Berlin in 2004, having originally been trained as a carpenter both in his native country of Burkina Faso and in Germany. While still an architecture student, he set up the association Schulbausteine für Gando e.V, later named Kéré Foundation e.V., which loosely translates to “School Building Blocks for Gando,” to fund the construction of a primary school for his hometown of Gando.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/francis-kere-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medalist-architecture

Bollywood Paisley Parks
Architecture

U Got the Look: Meet the Alumni Behind the 'Reimagining' of Prince's Paisley Park

After graduating from UVA in 2002 with a degree in biology, she attended a graduate theater program at Columbia University in New York City. She then performed in several off-Broadway shows before moving to Los Angeles, where she landed a number of roles in independent films, voiceovers, and commercials. But then, a funny thing happened. While living in Hollywood, Forjindam – just to make some extra money – took a job working at a company that designed theme parks. Almost instantly, Forjindam – perhaps influenced by her trip to the Magic Kingdom – was hooked.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/u-got-look-meet-alumna-behind-reimagining-princes-paisley-park

Brighter Together UVA Chapel Projection

Brighter Together: 4 More Opportunities to See UVA Architecture Glow

The University of Virginia Chapel glowed with dancing colors this weekend as a pop-up projection mapping show played on its exterior. This show was the first of five opportunities to see local artist Jeff Dobrow light up some of UVA’s most recognizable buildings. The shows offer students and community members a way to experience art with one another while being masked and physically distant. The energetic pop-up projections blend UVA’s prominent architecture with colorful lights and music. At a time of pandemic (and academic) stress, organizers hope the shows will lift the spirits of those watching or walking by.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/brighter-together-4-more-opportunities-see-uva-architecture-glow?utm_source=DailyReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

Time for a Steam: UVA Alumni Help Meticulously Restore Carrara Marble Capitals
Architecture

Time for a Steam: UVA Alumni Help Meticulously Restore Carrara Marble Capitals

The moment had come for Leigh Hassler to remove a painstakingly constructed steam chamber created to surround one of the ornate Carrara marble capitals that adorn UVA’s Pavilion VIII. During the building’s original construction, Thomas Jefferson ordered these capitals from Carrara, Italy – the same source as the recently replaced capitals that front the Rotunda. Hassler and her team were six hours into an intense paint-removal process. A palpable sense of anticipation hung in the air. As the team got down to business, briskly removing the chamber’s box around the capital, steam rose into a crisp, blue fall sky.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/time-steam-uva-alumni-help-meticulously-restore-carrara-marble-capitals