The University of Virginia announced designer, urbanist and spatial justice advocate Liz Ogbu as one of two inaugural University Fellows this semester. The new program brings expert practitioners to Grounds to engage with the UVA community on today’s most challenging problems and inspiring opportunities.
UVA School of Architecture's Master of Urban Design candidate Vishal Jayan (MUD '23) was recognized at the 10th Annual Tamayouz Excellence Award Ceremony, hosted by the Oman Society of Engineers in Oman's capital city of Muscat earlier this month.
In Andrea Trimble’s drawings, worlds merge. The built environment stakes its claim and nature presses its inevitability. Sometimes structure morphs into nature through the slender black lines that capture what she’s seen and where she’s been. “I use pen and ink mostly to depict different locations that I see in my travels, usually something that captures my eye,” Trimble said.
University of Virginia architectural history graduate Christine Madrid French has written an exciting new book, “The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock,” published in September by UVA Press.
UVA School of Architecture’s advanced research studio, Yamuna River Project/Thirsty Cities: Jaipur, (ARCH 4010_4011 / ALAR 8010) taught by Pankaj Vir Gupta and María Gonzalez Aranguren recently returned from their 10-day visit to India, where they spent time in Delhi and Jaipur.
Over 160 UVA School of Architecture students, with their studio faculty, headed north in early October 2022 for an immersive experience in New York City as part of the Arch 3010, Arch 7010, and UD 8010 studios.
On October 14, 2022, The Environmental Resilience Institute at UVA hosted the Environmental Futures Forum bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and partners across the University to launch its new Grand Challenges programs in Environmental Resilience and Sustainability. Following opening remarks by Provost Ian Baucom and ERI’s Director Karen McGlathery, sixteen faculty members representing university-wide collaborations in this area presented flash talks on their current research efforts.
Written by Biophilic Cities Program Director and A-School lecturer, JD Brown, and Helen Santiago Fink, Planning for Biophilic Cities recognizes nature as critical infrastructure for a rapidly urbanizing planet and the importance of proactively incorporating belonging and co-creation in the planning and design of biophilic cities to ensure that investments in nature address a diverse range of needs.
This summer, following several years of postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Virginia researchers eagerly embarked on their first field season in the city of Utqiaġvik, Alaska.
UVA School of Architecture is proud to announce that Elgin Cleckley, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design Thinking, was recently named a 2021–22 Distinguished Public Scholar by the University of Virginia Office of Engagement. Cleckley was one of six UVA faculty to receive the award, which acknowledges excellent service to alumni, parents, and friends of the University.
Richard Guy Wilson, professor emeritus of architectural history, will retrace some of his own footsteps in University of Virginia history. He will speak Sept. 29 at the Colonnade Club, recounting an address he gave to students at Brooks Hall in 1976, marking that building’s 100th anniversary.
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.”
