Community Design Assistance Center at Virginia Tech

08/23/2026

Discover the Hahn Horticulture Garden located at 200 Garden Lane on the campus of Virginia Tech. The Garden was established as a learning resource for plant material, landscaping concepts, and environmental awareness. Open 7 days a week with FREE admission.

08/22/2026

LEARN MORE ABOUT the Virginia Big Tree Program at VA Tech. The program is a natural resources outreach and education program of Virginia Cooperative Extension that started out as a 4-H and FFA project in 1970. Today the program is coordinated by the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech. Check out the link below
https://ext.vt.edu/natural-resources/big-tree.html
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08/22/2026

REGISTER NOW -AAD Welcome Back Picnic on Wednesday, August 26th 5-7:30 p.m.
Join the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design for the AAD Welcome Back Picnic at the Cowgill Hall Lawn. https://aimsbbis.vt.edu/AADWelcomeBack26?erid=f4898391-d05f-4121-83e4-04543e62995a&trid=f4898391-d05f-4121-83e4-04543e62995a
https://aimsbbis.vt.edu/AADWelcomeBack26...

08/22/2026

Let's get healthy this summer, make plans to walk every day. The Virginia Tech Campus is a perfect place to walk while exploring. Have you ever paid attention to the architectural details of the historic buildings ook up, discover the gargoyles of VA Tech!
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2021/10/under-watchful-eye.html

https://news.vt.edu/.../2021/10/under-watchful-eye.html...

Their hunched bodies and contorted faces are the stuff of legend. Chiseled in stone and calling to mind the rooftops of Paris or the Halloween season, the gargoyles capture Hokie imaginations.

08/22/2026

Studying life at nearly a mile high - Through fieldwork on Virginia's highest peaks, students are helping researchers understand how forest disturbances reshape wildlife habitat and ecosystem health.

Through fieldwork on Virginia's highest peaks, students are helping researchers understand how forest disturbances reshape wildlife habitat and ecosystem health, especially for the rare and vulnerable Weller’s salamander.

08/21/2026

The Community Design Assistance Center (CDAC) https://cdac.aad.vt.edu/ is an outreach center in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design that employs students and provides planning and design assistance to communities and non-profit organizations throughout Virginia.

08/21/2026

HAPPY 38TH ANNIVERSARY TO CDAC! The Community Design Assistance Center was established in 1988 through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education program. The two main goals of establishing the center were to provide underserved communities throughout Virginia with low-cost planning and design assistance and to provide landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and building construction students with an opportunity for paid experience related to their future careers that also taught students about participatory design and planning processes.

08/21/2026

VA Tech Student Experiences - Through a project that began in the fall and culminated in an installation in May, School of Visual Arts students stepped beyond the classroom to work with Head Start, using documentary photography to create a mural that celebrates identity, connection, and place through storytelling. Through hands-on, collaborative learning, participants in Associate Professor Michael Borowski's Topics in Photography: Fact and Fiction course demonstrated how art can strengthen communities while providing meaningful opportunities for students to give back. https://news.vt.edu/videos/y/2026/06/OX6a_OMCPhg.html...

Through a project that began in the fall and culminated in an installation in May, School of Visual Arts students stepped beyond the classroom to work with Head Start, using documentary photography to create a mural that celebrates identity, connection, and place through storytelling. Through hands-...