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Virginia Tech – Architecture Program:

Professor Susan Piedmont-Palladino, R.A., Director of Virginia Tech’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, had her new book How Drawings Work. A User-Friendly Theory published with Routledge in December 2018. The book is available as a paperback and a hardback.

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, S.I.A. and architect Valerio Olgiati’s new book Non-Referential Architecture, published by Simonett & Baer in 2018, was No.-1-most-sold architecture book on Amazon beginning on July 7, 2018. Due to the book being out-of-print, a new second edition of the original English, as well as German and Italian editions, will appear with Park Books in May 2019. In North America, the new edition will be distributed by The University of Chicago Press. In addition, the leading Dutch architecture journal de Architect has selected Non-Referential Architecture as one of the six best architecture books of 2018 in its “Beste Boeken 2018” list.

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Virginia Tech – Architecture Program:

Faculty Publications, Awards, Exhibition, Invited Lectures, etc.:
Professor Jack Davis, F.A.I.A., Dean Emeritus, was awarded the William C. Noland Medal, the highest award given to a member architect by the Virginia American Institute of Architects, for his extraordinary achievements over the past several decades. The medal was bestowed upon the recipient during the Visions for Architecture gala at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in November 2018.

Professor Emeritus Dayton Eugene Egger’s book The Paradox of Place: In the Line of Sight was published by ORO Editions. The book was edited by Gregory Luhan. It is supplied with a foreword by Kenneth Frampton. A book vernissage was held at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center in November 2018.

Visiting Assistant Professor Kevin Jones, A.I.A.was recognized with the Virginia Emerging Professional Award by the Virginia American Institute of Architects.

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, S.I.A.and architect Valerio Olgiati’s new book Non-Referential Architecture was published by Simonett & Baer. The book appeared in its original English version as well as in a translated German edition. The book was presented during the annual Porto Academy held at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) in Portugal in July 2018.

Following faculty member has been granted promotion by the university:
Associate Professor Patrick Doan, R.A. has been promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Associate Professor Aki Ishida, A.I.A. has been promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Associate Professor Paola Zellner-Bassett has been promoted from the rank of Associate Collegiate Professor to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

Following architecture faculty have been appointed to administrative positions:
Professor Dr. Paul Emmons, Ph.D.,has been appointed Associate Dean for Graduate Studies of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

In Memoriam:
Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus, and Virginia Tech President Emeritus Dr. Charles Steger, F.A.I.A., passed away on May 6, 2018.

T.A. Carter Professor Emeritus Dr. Dennis Kilper, A.I.A., with a 34-year tenure (1975-2009) at Virginia Tech’s architecture program, passed away on January 14, 2018.

Professor Emeritus Robert Ning-Shee Chaing, a professor at Virginia Tech’s architecture program form 1968 to 1998, passed away on October 9, 2017.

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The International Archive of Women in Architecture Center (IAWA) at Virginia Tech offers an annual prize to promote research on the contributions that women have made to the built environment and the design related disciplines.

Proposal submittal of 500 words and CV is due May 15, 2018.

Call for Proposals:
http://www.archdesign.vt.edu/centers/images/Milka_Bliznakov_Research_Prize-Call_2018.pdf

And guide to the IAWA Collections: https://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/guide.html

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Virginia Tech – Architecture Program:

Following architecture faculty has been appointed to administrative positions:

Dr. Richard Blythe, Ph.D., has been appointed Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies to the rank of Professor of Architecture. Blythe, former professor and dean of RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, Australia, will join Virginia Tech on Oct. 10, when the college’s sixth dean, Jack Davis, F.A.I.A. will step down to teach after 11 years at the helm of the college. Prior to his role as dean, Blythe served for five years as head of the RMIT School of Architecture and Design. He lectured at the University of Tasmania for 14 years, where he served as deputy head of the School of Architecture and was the vice chancellor’s representative on the Tasmanian government’s Building and Construction Industries Council. Blythe earned a Ph.D. in design/practice-based research from RMIT University; a master of architecture from the University of Melbourne; and bachelor’s degrees in architecture and environment design from the Tasmanian State Institute of Technology.

Associate Professor Hunter Pittman, R.A., has been appointed as Director of the School of Architecture + Design. Pittman served as Interim Director during the previous year. Pittman is the former chair of the Graduate Architecture Program and the chair of the Advanced Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program of the School of Architecture + Design.

Associate Professor Dr. Hilary Bryon, Ph.D., has been appointed as Assistant Director of Special Projects of the School of Architecture + Design.

Associate Professor Mario Cortes has been appointed as chair of the Core Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program.

Following faculty member has been granted promotion by the University:

Professor Michael Ermann has been promoted from the rank of Associate Professor with tenure to the rank of Professor.

Following new faculty have been hired to the architecture program:

Assistant Professor Katie MacDonald has been appointed to a teaching position at the rank of Collegiate Assistant Professor. MacDonald is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard University. She is co-founder and co-principle of After Architecture. MacDonald has held teaching appointments at Temple University, Philadelphia University, and Boston Architectural College.

Faculty Publications, Exhibition, Invited Lectures, etc.:

Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth Grant, Ph.D., R.A., has published the book “Integrated Building Performance with Design: An Architecture Student’s Guidebook” (Routledge, 2017, 220 pages, 199 Color Illustrations).

Associate Professor Dr. Hilary Bryon, Ph.D., has published a chapter titled “Contra-Construction: Theo van Doesburg’s Obliques View of Modern Architecture” in Companions to the History of Architecture (Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2017).

Professor Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D, P.E., and his students designed and developed the Portable Tuned Mass Damper, which is a device that can be used to reduce structural vibrations. The work has been debuted in several national and international publications. The research was sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Several graduate and undergraduate architecture and engineering students contributed to the research and development of the devices.

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., published an article titled “Alpine Architecture” to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the production of the legendary treatise “Alpine Architecture” by famed German architect Bruno Taut in the British journal Disegno. Quarterly Journal of Design. No. 14, London: Spring 2017. Breitschmid also published a chapter titled “Glass House at Cologne,” discussing the landmark Glass Pavilion of 1914 by Bruno Taut in “Companions to the History of Architecture” (Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2017). Breitschmid was invited to present a lecture on “Ludwig Mies van der Rohe” as part of presentation cycle focused on the city of Berlin at the Accademia di Architettura of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio on March 9, 2017.

Picture Credit: Richard Blythe, the New Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

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Following architecture faculty was recognized with emeritus status:

Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor of Architecture Jaan Holt was recognized by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors with emeritus status for his distinguished service to the university. Holt served on the Virginia Tech faculty for 43 years, including as chair of the architecture program from 1976 to 1982 and as the director of the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) from 1984 to 2016. 

Following architecture faculty have been appointed to administrative positions:

Associate Professor Hunter Pittman, R.A., has been appointed as Interim Director of the School of Architecture + Design. Pittman is the former chair of the Graduate Architecture Program and former chair of the Advanced Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program of the School of Architecture + Design.

Professor Kathryn Clarke Albright, A.I.A., has been appointed as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Albright is the former chair of Foundation Studies of the School of Architecture + Design.

Associate Professor David Dugas has been appointed as chair of the Graduate Architecture Program.

Professor Susan Piedmont-Palladino, A.I.A., has been appointed as director of the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center.

Adjunct Professor Charles von Weise, A.I.A., has been appointed as director of the Chicago Studio.

Following new faculty have been hired to the architecture program:

Assistant Professor Edward Becker, S.A.F.A., has been appointed to a tenure-track position. Becker holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. Prior to his arrival at Virginia Tech, Becker taught at the Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

Assistant Professor Joseph Bedford has been appointed to a tenure-track position. Bedford was trained in architecture at Cambridge University, The Cooper Union and Princeton University, and is the holder of the 2008-2009 Rome Prize at the British School in Rome.

Assistant Professor Dr. Sharóne Tomer, Ph.D., R.A., has been appointed to a tenure-track position. He holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, a M.Arch. from the University of Oregon, a M.Phil. from the University of Cape Town, and a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. She has taught architecture in the United States and In South Africa.

Visiting Professor Dr. Barbara Kenda, Ph.D., teaches at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center. She holds a PhD. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Adjunct Instructor Scott Archer, A.I.A., teaches at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center. He is a registered architect in the District of Columbia. He holds a Master of Science in Architecture & Urban Design from Columbia University.

The following faculty was awarded with an external academic appointment:

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., was appointed to the diploma commission of the Accadmia di Architettura of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana for 2016.

Faculty Publications & Lectures:

Professor Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D., P.E., has following accomplishments: he published a book on Structural Systems in October 2015; the second edition of his Concrete Structures, which was published by Springer, appeared in August 2016; he received $10,000 from the NSF as part of research experience for undergraduates (REU); and in July 2016, Setareh published a paper entitled “Vibration Serviceability Issues of Slender Footbridges” in the journal of bridge engineering.

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., had an interview with the Portuguese title “Mais Além!” published in ‘Indexnewspaper,” appearing in the Lisbon-based daily newspaper Público, on July 1, 2016.

Visiting Professor Dr. Barbara Kenda, Ph.D., was invited to lecture at the GSD, Harvard University, International Symposium On Atmospheres: Spaces of Embodiment. Her presentation was titled: Breathing Landscape, Tempering Architecture. 

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Virginia Tech – Architecture Programs: 

Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor of Architecture Jaan Holt, Director of the the School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center since 1984, has stepped down from his position in January 2016.

Professor Susan Piedmont-Palladio, R.A., has been appointed as the Interim Director of the School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center.

Assistant Professor Aki Ishida, A.I.A., has been named as one of “Design Intelligence 25 Most Admired Educators for 2016.” 

Associate Professor William U. Galloway, Assistant Professor Patrick Doan, R.A., and Professor Frank Weiner, R.A., have received the 2016 ACSA Design-Build Award, honoring best practices in school-based design-build projects, for their cube building. The project was also awarded a Honorable Mention by American Institute of Architects Virginia.

Professor Joe Wheeler, A.I.A., has been awarded the 2015 Prize for Design Research and Scholarship by the American Institute of Architects Virginia.

Professor Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D., P.E., was awarded an Honorable Mention of the 2015 Prize for Design Research and Scholarship for his Structure and Form Analysis System (SAFAS) by the American Institute of Architects Virginia. Setareh also published the book Structural System, which covers the material to prepare intern architects for the Structural Systems Division of the Architect Registration Examination (ARE).  

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., has published an article on Herzog & de Meuron’s new Perez Art Museum in Miami, Florida for the journal Archithese – International Review of Architecture.   


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Virginia Tech’s architecture programs can report two new administrative appointments:

Associate Professor of Architecture Jim Bassett has been appointed as the new chair of Foundation Studies. The chair of Foundation Studies is responsible for first year of study for undergraduate degree programs of architecture, landscape architecture industrial design, and interior design in the School of Architecture + Design.

Associated Professor of Architecture David Dugas has been appointed as the new chair of the Core Professional Bachelor of Architecture Program. David Dugas is responsible for the second and third years of study of the Bachelor of Architecture program.

Following promotions and awarding of tenure of architecture faculty have been made by Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors: Professor of Architecture Dr. Paul Emmons, Ph.D., R.A. was promoted to the rank of professor.

Associate Professor of Architecture Dr. Elizabeth Grant, Ph.D., R.A. was granted tenure and was promoted to the rank of associate professor.

Virginia Tech’s architecture program can report the following outstanding achievement:

Nicholas Coates, who graduated in May (2015) with a B.Arch. degree, has received the prestigious 2015 Skidmore Owings Merrill (SOM) Prize, a $50,000 travel and research fellowship [http://www.somfoundation.som.com/fellow/nicholas-coates]. His winning research proposal was entitled, “The Corner: A Marker of the New, A Memory of the Past.” Nick plans to travel to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Japan. Faculty, students, and alumni congratulate Nicholas Coates for this outstanding achievement. Virginia Tech’s architecture program would also like to thank SOM for its continued support and investment towards the fostering of the education of architects.

Faculty News:

Professor of Architecture Dr. Mehdi Setareh, Ph.D., P.E. was awarded a $10,000 grant by the Structural and Architectural Engineering Program at the National Science Foundation to promote research experience for undergraduates. The grant sponsors participation of undergraduate students in research on building vibration serviceability issues. Three of his students, Sarah Spanski, Ava Mohebbi, and Emily Bell participated in the same program last year. Each presented the results of their studies at the 2015 National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Cheney, Washington, in April 2015. The papers have also been published as part of the conference.

Research Assistant Professor David Clark, Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., and Professor Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., members of the Center for Design Research (CDR) were invited to exhibit experimental student work developed with emerging digital technology at the 2015 International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Technological Material Transformations featured projects developed with digital tools in the center’s undergraduate studio and work from the new robotics facility.

Robert Dunay, David Clark and Nathan King also presented work from the Virginia Tech Center for Design Research to a New York audience at Hafele headquarters in Manhattan. Furthering the goal to embed emerging technologies within architecture and design curriculums, Building the Future through Digital Design and Fabrication, a lecture accredited for AIA learning units, summarized past work of the Center while offering a prospectus for the future of design education and practice.

As part of the Design Boston Biennial, the Center for Design Research (CDR) worked with Mass Design Group in Boston to design, fabricate and erect an experimental pavilion on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston MA. The structure is the first building project produced using the newly launched Center for Design Research Design Robotics Studio led by Dr. Nathan King, David Clark, and Director of the Center for Design Research, Robert Dunay.

Professors King, Clark, and Dunay also hosted the first annual Design Robotics Summit in the newly developed Architecture + Design, Center for Design Research, Design Robotics Studio that included participants from: University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Columbia College of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, Autodesk, and The Living. 

Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., and Schaffer Sommers, University of Virginia, along with a number of contributing faculty members from both universities announced the development of the Commonwealth Consortium for Design and Health.

Nathan King, along with collaborators Rachel Vroman, Kathy King, and Olga Mesa led the panel Innovating Ceramics: Collaboration, Technology, and Pedagogy at the 49th annual National Council on Education in the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) conference in Providence, Rhode Island. 

With Stefanie Pender, Rhode Island School of Design, and Dr. King co-founded the Glass Robotics Laboratory, a research collaboration that merges traditional glass working techniques and emerging design and computational technologies that led to the creation of the first ever Robotically 3D Printed Glass artifact.

Work produced at Virginia Tech by Assistant Professor Nathan King, Matt Lutz, Norwich University, and a team of collaborators entitled PLUG: Portable Laboratory on Uncommon Grounds was published in the recently released book Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: SEED Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues by Lisa M. Abendroth (Editor), Bryan Bell (Editor).

Through their collaboration The United Nathans, Nathan Melenbrink and Nathan King published a paper entitled “Fulldome Interfacing: A Real-time Immersive Environment as a Tool for Design” as part of the 20th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) in the spring of 2015.

Robert Dunay and Professor of Architecture Jack Davis, F.A.I.A., Dean of Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies, lead the program International Architecture and Design (IAD) in its 20th year. Principals and senior level architects traveled to Portugal and Spain for an in-depth review of the work of Alvaro Siza and Souto de Moura. After visiting a number of works in Lisbon, the group of 15 architects met with Siza in his office in Porto. Participants receive 36 AIA learning units during the week-long course.

Instructor of Architecture Rengin Holt has been awarded the third prize in theBellingham National 2015 Art Exhibition and Awards for her monoprint entitled, “Around the Corner” [http://www.whatcommuseum.org/galleries/current-gallery/566-bellingham-national-2015]. The selected works was exhibited at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Washington.

Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Laura McGuire, Ph.D. recently published an essay, “Energy, Correalism, and the Endless House,” in Endless Kiesler, Klaus Bolliger and Florian Medicus, eds. (Basel: Birkhäuser/Edition Angewandte, 2015). She also published an entry on Scientific Management in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Clive Edwards, ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

Professor of Architecture Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A. has been awarded an honorary medal by the Colegio de Arquitectos del Perú, the professional association of Peruvian architects. Breitschmid was awarded the medal for his contributions on the theme of “Modernismo Suizo.” Swiss Modernism is well recognized in Peru because a number of Swiss architects and designers immigrated to the Andean nation just after World War II and produced influential work that shaped the tradition of modern architecture of Peru. Breitschmid has authored several books and essays on the modern architecture of Switzerland that speak to that significant legacy.

Virginia Tech’s architecture program can also report a prominent departure of one of its allied faculty and program alumnae:

Professor Mitzi Vernon will be leaving Virginia Tech as she was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. Professor Vernon’s expertise will be missed at Virginia Tech, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the School of Architecture + Design. We will miss Mitzi and wish her the best in her new role.

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Professor Joseph Wheeler, A.I.A., Co-Director of the School of Architecture + Design’s Center for Design Research, principal investigator of the VT FutureHAUS initiative, has lead a team of researchers and students in exhibiting a prototype kitchen, the FutureHAUS Kitchen, at the Kitchen and Bath industry show in Las Vegas in Janaury 2016. In May, the kitchen and living room will be exhibited at the National AIA Convention Expo in Atlanta. The research investigates better utilization of industrialized processes to build architecture.  By delivering large, complex, house assemblies as “cartridges,” a more sophisticated prefabricated product may be delivered to the job site or the assembly plant. This cross-disciplinary project engages students from Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Art, Computer Science, and Industrial and Systems Engineering.  

Professor Dr. Markus Breitschmid, Ph.D., S.I.A., has been invited to lecture at the Colegio Arquitectos del Perú in Lima, Peru. The lecture was supported by the Institute of Peruvian Architects, the Embassy of Switzerland in Lima and with an International Travel Grant from the Virginia Tech – Office of the Vice President for Research.

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ACSA Faculty News – Virginia Tech

Professor Dr. Bert Rodriguez-Camilloni, Ph.D., served as a discussant in the session “Brutalism in the Americas: North-South Connections,” at the forthcoming 68th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) to be held between April 2015 in Chicago, IL. Professor Rodriguez-Camilloni will also be recognized at a special reception sponsored by the president of the society for his 40 years of membership and service to the SAH.

ACSA Distinguished Professor, T.A. Carter Professor of Architecture Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., Research Assistant Professor David Clark of the Center for Design Research (CDR) conducted the workshop Design Robotics Summit, sponsored by the School of Architecture + Design. Over 60 students, faculty and staff from a number of colleges, universities, and industry collaborators including University of Tennessee, University of Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Columbia College of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design, AutodeskTM, and The Living, participated in the workshop. The results of the workshop will be presented at the upcoming International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City.

Robert Dunay, F.A.I.A., Director of the Center for Design Research (CDR), together with Cark Nexson, an award winning architectural and engineering firm organized and hosted an exhibition showcasing experimental digital fabrications. Students participating in the exhibition include Laura Escobar, Ryan Hawkins, Brian Kato, David Kolodziej, Aaron Payne, Stephen Perry, Hannah Utter, and Dan Ventresca. David Clark and Negar Kalantar, PhD student, directed the CRD – (trans)LAB studio. Nathan King directed the robotics segment.

Assistant Professor Aki Ishida, A.I.A., had four recent installation works exhibited in the solo show Ground to Sky: Triptychs in Three Scales at the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The show runs from January 27 to May 30, 2015 and was accompanied by Ishida’s lecture ‘Urban Light and Human Temporality’ on February 11.

Aki Ishida was also appointed by National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa as a panelist for the NEA’s Art Works grants, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works category, in June to July 2014.

Cloud, a public art installation designed by Aki Ishida and Associate Professor Ivica Ico Bukvic, School of Performing Arts, Music, Theatre, Cinema, in collaboration with students of Virginia Tech, was installed at Welburn Square in Ballston, VA on October 2 and 3, 2014. Cloud was commissioned by the Ballston Business Improvement District and was also exhibited in the group show ‘Public Displays of Innovation’ at the Artisphere in Arlington, VA. November 26, 2014 to January 18, 2015.

Assistant Professor Dr. Nathan King, D.Des., lead a panel at the international conference for NCECA in March 2015. This panel was an extension of Nathan Kings’s research and teaching related to digital materials systems (Ceramics in this case) and Design Robotics.

 

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