Peter Waldman in the News
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Learning in the 21st century is less about the classroom and more about the experience. But how do you design physical and virtual spaces that convey the experience?
Last week, the University of Virginia hosted the Universitas 21 Learning Environments Design Forum. Representatives from the consortium gathered to learn about ways U.Va. creates informal learning spaces and to explore design opportunities for the Carr's Hill Arts Grounds. The School of Architecture hosted the forum.
Universitas 21 – or U21 – is the international network of 21 leading research-intensive universities in 13 countries. U.Va. President John T. Casteen III currently serves as its chairman.
The first U21 design forum was held in 2007 at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and the second at the University of Hong Kong. U.Va. architecture professor Peter Waldman, who had attended both, invited the group to the University and expanded the exploration to include student workshops. U.Va. architecture students joined counterparts from Hong Kong and Melbourne for an extensive design charette that ran parallel to the U21 staff members' workshop.
Architecture School dean Kim Tanzer praised the experience as an opportunity for the students, U21 members and the University community to learn and explore. The Carr's Hill Arts Grounds is the home to the School of Architecture, the Department of Drama, studio art in Ruffin Hall, art history in Fayerweather Hall, the U.Va. Art Museum and the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library. The Cavalier Marching Band, part of the McIntire Department of Music, will soon join the community when its new rehearsal hall is added.
"The Carr's Hill Arts Grounds is not quite a collective space yet," Tanzer said. "The U21 forum is an opportunity to help shape that space."
She said the Arts Grounds is similar to Thomas Jefferson's design for the Lawn, but on a different scale. "The same principles of interaction apply to both," she said.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
[Cville Abode, by Erika Howsare] One of the great things about being an architect, it seems—aside from the chance to design one’s own dwelling—is the ability to discuss that dwelling in all kinds of interesting terms.
A courtyard is enclosed by one of three L-shaped concrete walls that form the structure of Parcel X, Peter and Nancy Waldman’s North Garden home.
Take, for example, the house of Peter and Nancy Waldman, which he (a professor in UVA’s School of Architecture) designed in 1994 and describes at different times as a moving van, a campsite, a warehouse, a textbook and a future archaeological dig. Each is an apt comparison in some way, but first it helps to know some basics about the industrial-style, metal-clad house built on nearly four sloping, wooded acres in North Garden.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The William R. Kenan Endowment Fund of the Academical Village summer fellowships support educational opportunities for students to conduct research projects that increase public understanding of the Academical Village. Each student receives a $4,000 stipend and his/her faculty advisor receives $1,000. The resulting project is intended for public dissemination at the end of the summer and may include an exhibition, publication, or public event.
Kenan Fellowships have been awarded to the following School of Architecture students for summer 2008: Lydia Mattice Brandt (faculty advisors: Elizabeth Meyer and Richard Guy Wilson); Benjamin Trudel (faculty advisor: Peter Waldman); Danielle Willkens (faculty advisor: Peter Waldman); and Edwin Wright (faculty advisor: Phoebe Crisman.
Friday, March 4, 2005
The Eric Goodwin Passage, a pair of outdoor classrooms designed by Professor of Architecture Peter Waldman and his students, led by Justin Walton and Sam Beale, has received the 2005 Tilt-Up Achievement Award from the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA). The award is given "for the outstanding example of Tilt-up Concrete Construction."
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
{From Inside UVA Online} As the fall semester came to a close, architecture professors William Sherman, Peter Waldman and Earl Mark sat together in the Naugahyde Lounge just inside the School of Architecture?s entryway. Sherman?s laptop rested on the table in front of them, about six feet away from a 52-inch TV monitor and a camera focused on the three. The professors were engaged in thoughtful conversation.
However, they were conversing not with one another but with 16 architecture, landscape architecture and architectural history students located more than 4,000 miles away. The group was participating in the school?s semester-long program in Venice, Italy.
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
On Monday, September 27th, a ceremony was held in the Campbell Courtyard to dedicate The Eric Goodwin Passage. Joined by members of the Goodwin Family and representatives of the Class of 2002, Dean Van Lengen, Professor Peter Waldman, and first-year architecture graduate student Justin Walton summarized the evolution of the project and thanked the individuals and businesses who contributed so much.
