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AIA Virginia is pleased to announce the jury for the 2024 AIA Virginia Prize. The competition — which took place over the weekend of Feb. 2-5 —challenged students to design a public library in Phoebus, VA as a community public room to be a place both welcoming and safe for individuals, as well as for groups that choose to gather and interact . . .
University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design fifth-year architecture student David Sweere has been awarded the 2019 Aydelott Prize, beating out three other competing Aydelott Travel Award recipients . . .
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – After spending 100 days traveling abroad last summer, one Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design student is now sharing his research and his journey . . .
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – David Sweere, a University of Arkansas architecture student, has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Aydelott Prize, the top honor in a four-university travel research program . . .
The majority of the United States population is living in the suburbs, and yet the suburban built fabric has developed with spatial conditions that have failed to prove their efficacy on environmental, social or economic terms. Most contemporary architectural and urban theorists agree that the suburban condition is inherently problematic . . .
We’d like to recognize architecture and Honors College student David Sweere, who received the 2020 AIA Henry Adams Medal. This medal is awarded to the first-ranked, final-year architecture student who has shown scholastic achievement, character, leadership and promise of high professional ability. Congrats! #UARK . . .
Through the lens of twelve points discussed in Peter Zumthor’s Atmospheres lecture, this talk will explore a series of buildings which are derived from place to the level of each well-crafted detail. Inspired by vernacular architecture and local building traditions, these buildings exemplify critical regional specificity. An experiential analysis seeks to explain a deeper phenomenological state, an added value, to the experience of architecture which is of its place, connecting architecture and the observer to the collective memories and traces of the landscape . . .
The lighting shifts from a natural white sunlight to an orange tint as I walk down the travertine stairs to the subway station on a brisk January morning. A small crowd is funneled through the turnstiles and down another stair deeper into the concrete tunnels.
The public library is our most democratic institution, its foundational goals to make educational opportunity available to all and to serve as civic center for its community. As such, it is a bridge between immediate local needs and broader public ideals.