W.G. Clark in the News

Monday, October 6, 2008

Architecture School Additions Emphasize Collaboration, Transparancy of Creative Process

[from UVa News Services, by Jane Ford] The University of Virginia School of Architecture opened this fall with two new additions that promise to reorganize the life of the school and dramatize its mission. "The additions are part of a master plan to remake our home in the spirit and mission of the school, while giving design opportunities to the faculty," Dean Karen Van Lengen said. Van Lengen has worked over nine years to bring the additions and six faculty design-build projects, which include dedicated exhibition space, a café that offers local, organic food and an outdoor classroom, to reality. All reinforce and demonstrate the curricular values of the school to students and the public. With the latest endeavor, the school created two additions and a "learning landscape" and also renovated some of the interior spaces in Campbell Hall, the school's home since 1970. The new wings, which add 12,000 square feet to the building to address the growth of the school, were designed by faculty members W.G. Clark, the Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture, and William Sherman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Architecture, in collaboration with SMBW Architects in Richmond. A dedication will be held at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 25. [for complete article, follow link to UVa News]

Friday, May 2, 2008

Prof. W.G. Clark's House Included in Oxford American Magazine

Professor of Architecture Edward Ford has authored an article in the Oxford American Magazine featuring Professor W.G. Clark's house, of his own design, as one of the "Best Modern Homes of the New South." Prof Ford writes, "W.G. Clark was born in Virginia, educated at Jefferson's University of Virginia, where he now teaches, and lives within a mile of Monticello. But the small house he built for himself is not about Virginia architecture as a Romantic ideal. Rather, it's a response to the reality of a place. It's not about being in Virginia: it's about being in this particular, all too typical location in Virginia. ... as Clark once wrote, 'There is a difference between buildings that merely look Jeffersonian as opposed to the infinitely more difficult task of being Jeffersonian.' Clark's house, imbued with Jeffersonian spirit, does just that: It looks beyond Virginia while responding to what is actually there, quietly defying the architecture of the familiar, of the nostalgic." For the complete article, see the Oxford American Magazine (not available online in full).

Tuesday, October 4, 2005

School of Architecture Hosts Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Additions

President Casteen, representatives of the Board of Visitors, and the School's Advisory and Foundation Boards were all in attendance at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new additions to Campbell Hall held on September 29th. President Casteen announced that the East Addition, designed by W.G. Clark, will be named the Victor and Sono Elmaleh East Addition in honor of the Elmaleh's generous gifts to the School. Dean Van Lengen thanked everyone who has been involved in the effort that lead to this historic day.

Friday, February 11, 2005

Prof. W.G. Clark's Firm Wins International Design Competition

A design by W.G. Clark Associates, the Charlottesville architectural design firm founded by Professor of Architecture and alumnus W.G. Clark (BSArch?65) and including alumni Azadeh Rashidi (BSArch?95, MArch?00) and Joshua Stastny (MArch?00, MLA?01), has won first prize in the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston International Design Competition. The project is for a small School of Architecture building in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, where Clemson University has maintained an urban extension for the past twenty years.

The winning team also includes Gregg Bleam Landscape Architects, of Charlottesville; Riesberg Architects, of Charleston; 2RW Consulting Engineers, of Charlottesville; and 4SE Structural Engineers and Forsberg Civil Engineers, both of Charleston.

The winning design reflects an intention to make a building which respects and is derived from the urban pattern and building traditions of the city, while housing and representing the needs and aspirations of a dynamic, modern school. An urban court figures at the center of the design, unifying the various programmatic aspects of the school while also serving as a threshold to the public realm of the city. The design seeks to restate the dominant pattern of Charleston, an equivalence of landscape and building.

Finalists in the competition included: Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. of Boston (second place); Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos, of Spain; Ann Beha Architects, of Boston; and Allied Works Architecture, Inc., of Portland, Oregon.

	Home > Faculty > Architecture > W.G. Clark in the News Monday, October 6, 2008 Architecture School Additions Emphasize Collaboration, Transparancy of Creative Process [from UVa News Services, by Jane Ford] The University of Virginia School of Architecture opened this fall with two new additions that promise to reorganize the life of the school and dramatize its mission. "The additions are part of a master plan to remake our home in the spirit and mission of the school, while giving design opportunities to the faculty," Dean Karen Van Lengen said. Van Lengen has worked over nine years to bring the additions and six faculty design-build projects, which include dedicated exhibition space, a café that offers local, organic food and an outdoor classroom, to reality. All reinforce and demonstrate the curricular values of the school to students and the public. With the latest endeavor, the school created two additions and a "learning landscape" and also renovated some of the interior spaces in Campbell Hall, the school's home since 1970. The new wings, which add 12,000 square feet to the building to address the growth of the school, were designed by faculty members W.G. Clark, the Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture, and William Sherman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Architecture, in collaboration with SMBW Architects in Richmond. A dedication will be held at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 25. [for complete article, follow link to UVa News] Friday, May 2, 2008 Prof. W.G. Clark's House Included in Oxford American Magazine Professor of Architecture Edward Ford has authored an article in the Oxford American Magazine featuring Professor W.G. Clark's house, of his own design, as one of the "Best Modern Homes of the New South." Prof Ford writes, "W.G. Clark was born in Virginia, educated at Jefferson's University of Virginia, where he now teaches, and lives within a mile of Monticello. But the small house he built for himself is not about Virginia architecture as a Romantic ideal. Rather, it's a response to the reality of a place. It's not about being in Virginia: it's about being in this particular, all too typical location in Virginia. ... as Clark once wrote, 'There is a difference between buildings that merely look Jeffersonian as opposed to the infinitely more difficult task of being Jeffersonian.' Clark's house, imbued with Jeffersonian spirit, does just that: It looks beyond Virginia while responding to what is actually there, quietly defying the architecture of the familiar, of the nostalgic." For the complete article, see the Oxford American Magazine (not available online in full). Tuesday, October 4, 2005 School of Architecture Hosts Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Additions President Casteen, representatives of the Board of Visitors, and the School's Advisory and Foundation Boards were all in attendance at the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new additions to Campbell Hall held on September 29th. President Casteen announced that the East Addition, designed by W.G. Clark, will be named the Victor and Sono Elmaleh East Addition in honor of the Elmaleh's generous gifts to the School. Dean Van Lengen thanked everyone who has been involved in the effort that lead to this historic day. Friday, February 11, 2005 Prof. W.G. Clark's Firm Wins International Design Competition A design by W.G. Clark Associates, the Charlottesville architectural design firm founded by Professor of Architecture and alumnus W.G. Clark (BSArch?65) and including alumni Azadeh Rashidi (BSArch?95, MArch?00) and Joshua Stastny (MArch?00, MLA?01), has won first prize in the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston International Design Competition. The project is for a small School of Architecture building in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, where Clemson University has maintained an urban extension for the past twenty years. The winning team also includes Gregg Bleam Landscape Architects, of Charlottesville; Riesberg Architects, of Charleston; 2RW Consulting Engineers, of Charlottesville; and 4SE Structural Engineers and Forsberg Civil Engineers, both of Charleston. The winning design reflects an intention to make a building which respects and is derived from the urban pattern and building traditions of the city, while housing and representing the needs and aspirations of a dynamic, modern school. An urban court figures at the center of the design, unifying the various programmatic aspects of the school while also serving as a threshold to the public realm of the city. The design seeks to restate the dominant pattern of Charleston, an equivalence of landscape and building. Finalists in the competition included: Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. of Boston (second place); Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos, of Spain; Ann Beha Architects, of Boston; and Allied Works Architecture, Inc., of Portland, Oregon.	Profile In the News Gallery of Work Contact Beckerdite House; W.G. Clark. View More: This Image · W.G. Clark's Gallery · Faculty Portfolio Gallery
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