Virginia Tech School of Architecture

08/28/2026

08/26/2026

Please join us tomorrow at 2pm in Hancock 100 for the first lecture of the fall semester!

Adjunct Instructor Andrew Shaver will be delivering his lecture, "The Shape of Consent"

08/24/2026

It's that time again! The start of a new semester at the School of Architecture!

Welcome back Hokies!

08/21/2026

The Fall 2026 semester commences on Monday, and we're excited to share our lecture schedule!

Access all our lectures on our official YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/

08/20/2026

On August 14th, students in the first-year summer transfer lab exhibited work developed during the final six weeks of the session. An open field in Heritage Park served as the site for a series of constructs tooled through exercises exploring montage, kitbashing, composition, scale, translation, continuity, and adjacency, with an emphasis on orthographic projection. Students were joined by second-year faculty to discuss the work and mark the transition into the new academic year.

Instructors: Collin Caywood, Andrew Shaver
Teaching Assistant: Daniel Gasparo

08/12/2026

T.A. Carter Professor Markus Breitschmid was invited to present a lecture at the Peter Behrens School of the Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany on July 8, 2026.

His lecture was titled “Universalgebäude” (Universal Building), and was held in German. It dealt with the question of the validity of the idea of the universal in architecture and raised the question what the possibilities are for the concept “universal” in our discipline in the 21st century.

08/07/2026

08/05/2026

Front of House by Gluten is currently on view now through November, coinciding with the launch of Ragdale’s 50th Anniversary. Drawing inspiration from the historic Ragdale House, Gluten’s project re-imagines elements of the façade as a landscape of forms to be engaged through direct experience. Rather than a single stage, Front of House is an environment where performance, gathering and architecture overlap with one another, creating a space of wonder and exploration. 

Ragdale is a not-for-profit arts organization residing in and named after the historic 1897 Arts and Crafts country retreat designed by renowned architect Howard Van Doren Shaw for his wife, the poet and playwright Frances Wells Shaw and their family. As the Shaw family grew to include four generations of artists, Ragdale’s legacy became its continuing cycle of creativity that has remained unbroken for almost 130 years. 

Gluten is Julia McConnell and Paige Davidson, with a rotating cast of collaborators. Since 2021, the studio has been making houses, installations,short films, branding, packaging, books, animations, and furniture. The work stretches across scales and formats, often refusing to settle into a single domain.

07/30/2026

Over the summer, rising fifth-year undergraduate architecture student Olivia Thacker has been
interning at GCS-SIGAL a general contracting company focused on design-build
projects in Washington, D.C. We asked her to share insights on her experience so far!

“As an architecture student, it is important to me to learn how a building comes together,
including the people and materials involved in the construction process. My favorite part
of the experience so far has been working on-site at the Crummell Community Center, a
historic renovation of a 1910s school into a community center in Ward 5. As a Project
Engineer Intern, I am on site every day with a knowledgeable and dedicated GC team,
learning about field and operations management. Crummell CC held its groundbreaking
ceremony a few weeks ago, where representatives from the Department of General
Services and Mayor Muriel Bowser attended, along with many members of the
community.

Throughout this experience, it has become evident that architecture does not end when
the building is designed; rather, the art of building manifests into the construction phase.
Getting to know the project’s stakeholders: the operations and field teams, the dozens
of subcontractors involved, the designers, and the owner, has shown me how much
collaboration is required to bring a project to life and has been pivotal to my professional
development. It is important to talk to everyone on a project site, from laborer to
superintendent, since architecture transcends languages and backgrounds, bringing
together people to achieve a common goal.”

07/23/2026

The largest ever estate gift in support of the Virginia Tech School of Architecture has been committed by Professor Emeritus Salahuddin Choudhury and his wife, May.

The $20 million gift will ultimately provide substantial, endowed resources for the college dean and school director to use to keep Virginia Tech at the forefront of architecture education.

Read the full story ➡️ go.vt.edu/urL5M