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  • A. J. Jack Davis named dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-03-21)
    University Provost Mark C. McNamee has announced the appointment of A. J. Jack Davis as Virginia Tech's dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.
  • ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Blacksburg episode airs Feb. 12
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-01-23)
    Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff--most notably from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies--will be featured in the two-hour Crawford Smith Family episode of the popular ABC television program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." The show is seen locally on WSET-TV Channel 13 On Sunday, Feb.12, at 7 p.m.
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    Acclaimed artist of moving sculpture, Theo Jansen, to lecture
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-10-31)
    Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor, builds enormous works that resemble skeletons of animals and walk on wind power, discusses "The Battle of the Beast" on Tues., Nov. 4, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Squires Student Center's Haymarket Theatre.
  • Architecture and Urban Studies programs rank high in the nation
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-01-11)
    The architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture programs in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies are ranked among the very best in America.
  • Architecture and Urban Studies to offer overseas design course
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-03-21)
    Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies invites professional architects and designers to participate in the 11th annual International Architecture and Design Continuing Education Course in Italy to be held in May. The deadline to register for this course is Saturday, April 15.
  • Architecture faculty member Scott Gartner invited to participate in seminar in Oxford, England
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-03-03)
    Scott Gartner, associate professor of architecture in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies, will participate in the John and Sandra Feneley Seminar, sponsored by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford, and St. Mary's College of Maryland, in Oxford, England, on May 21-27. The seminar is organized around the topic "Glorious Revolution to Independence: England and America in the Long 18th Century." Gartner has been invited to discuss "Primary Faith: American Transcendentalism as a Manifestation of Protestant Inner Light Spirituality." In addition, Gartner was awarded a $1,000 St. Mary's College of Maryland seminar fellowship.
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    Architecture faculty team's design transforms Potts Creek, Va., farmhouse
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2010-02-12)
    Visiting architecture faculty Marie and Keith Zawistowski's practice, OnSite, received one of nine 2009 Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Awards (VSAIA) for Excellence in Architecture for their transformation of the 200-year-old Arritt Farm House in Potts Creek, Va.
  • Architecture graduate student named one of nation's top 15 students, awarded exclusive internship charrette
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-06-07)
    Karmarkar Bharati, of Mumbai, India, an architecture graduate student in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies' School of Architecture + Design at Virginia Tech, was named one of the top 15 architecture students in the nation by Design Workshop, Inc., in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has been awarded a summer internship charrette.
  • Architecture professor Mario Cortes wins international Gabriel Prize
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-03-24)
    Mario Cortes, assistant professor of architecture in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies and a Blacksburg resident, has been named the winner of the Western European Architecture Foundation's 14th annual Gabriel Prize, which includes a $17,500 grant for the study of classical architecture and landscape in France.
  • Architecture professor Markus Breitschmid authors book on Nietzsche
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-08-17)
    Markus Breitschmid, assistant professor of architecture in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies, has authored a book, Nietzsche's Denkraum, published by Edition Didacta, in Zürich, Switzerland.
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    Architecture professor's grant will enable virtual work with building design and structure
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-09-03)
    Mehdi Setareh, professor of architecture in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies, is the principal investigator of a recently funded National Science Foundation (NSF) project.
  • Architecture professors to exhibit work at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-11-03)
    Donna and Robert Dunay, of Blacksburg, Va., professors in Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, have been invited to present their work at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. The exhibition, Time for Design, explores the evolution of design solutions and the intersection of various design disciplines through an in-depth look at intention, concept, process, outcome and client relations.
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    Architecture program ranked as world-class with Harvard, Yale, and Columbia
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-01-20)
    Virginia Tech's architecture program, in the School of Architecture + Design, has been recognized as one of America's World-Class Schools of Architecture with highest distinction, tied with Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Universities.
  • Architecture student designs an award-winning chair out of a shipping pallet
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-05-20)
    Ever think of using a shipping pallet around the house? Andrew Montgomery of Falls Church, Va., a fifth-year architecture student in Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design, did. He designed a chair with a single shipping pallet and it won the Green Stewardship Award from Design Within Reach, a company that sells fully licensed furniture classics by major designers.
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    Architecture student Meredith Baber wins Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2009-05-18)
    Meredith Baber of Cartersville, Va., a fourth-year honors architecture student in the School of Architecture + Design, is the first student in the history of Virginia Tech to win a prestigious Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF) Associates Travelling Fellowship.
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    Architecture students to pack a pavilion in 20 suitcases, head to the London Festival of Architecture
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-04-17)
    An undergraduate student team from Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design led by Terry Surjan, associate professor of architecture, are traveling to London in June to display a full-scale pavilion they designed and developed for the South Kensington Hub Site/Pedestrian Tunnel to Museums site at the month-long London Festival of Architecture.
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    Architecture thesis students build Skate Park Pavilion for the Town of Blacksburg
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2007-10-16)
    During their fifth year as undergraduate architecture students in Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design, Jeff Franklin and Miron Nawratil designed and built a pavilion for the Town of Blacksburg's new skate park at 615 Patrick Henry Drive last spring.
  • Architecture undergraduate wins top honor in statewide competition
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-04-09)
    Marisa Brown, a third-year architecture student in Virginia Tech's School of Architecture + Design, in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, has won this year's Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Prize.
  • Arts transformation continues at Virginia Tech
    Elliott, Jean (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2008-04-01)
    The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors recently approved two new schools to emphasize the broad spectrum of the arts at the university.
  • Assistant professor receives fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies
    Chadwick, Heather Riley (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2006-08-31)
    Sonia Hirt, of Blacksburg, assistant professor of urban affairs and planning in Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies, has received a $25,000 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Hirt will use the funds during a research leave this spring to study the social and spatial characteristics of the post-communist suburbs in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.