Daniel Ackermann
M.Arch.Hist 2006
Daniel examined the culinary-social landscapes around the University from Jeffersonian roots to Corner grab-and-go.
Jesse Adams-Doolittle
B.Arch.Hist., Historic Preservation Minor 2005
Jesse's work investigated the changing landscape of the vibrant student neighborhood that developed along 14th Street, which has served as a center of off-grounds housing for more than 100 years.
L. Nikole Branch
B.Arch.Hist., Historic Preservation Minor 2005
Nikole studied fraternity chapter house architecture forms and patterns.
Lydia Mattice Brandt
M.Arch.Hist. 2006
Lydia scrutinized Chancellor Street's changing feminine landscape. Her research focused on the way boarding houses and their matrons shaped the Chancellor Street economy and the street's more recent use as a district of sororities.
Marissa Cato, webmaster
M.Arch.Hist., Historic Preservation Certificate 2006
Marissa investigated early 19th-century student housing in mixed-use buildings on the Corner (the main commercial area closest to U.Va.), which began as rooms leased by a person who operated in a role similar to a boarding house proprietor. These buildings were contrasted to University-owned apartment complexes that arose in the years following 1970—the year U.Va. become fully co-educational.
Andrea Drake
M.Arch., Preservation Certificate 2006
Pending the replacement of the Alderman Road Dormitories, Andrea researched the building process and design of their construction in the late 1960s.
Caleb Dulis
Caleb joined the class from the English department, and studied the Monroe Hill dormitories (known today as Brown College) and the McCormick Road first-year dorms.
Alejandro Huerta
M.Arch.Hist. 2006.
Alejandro's project focused on the way in which architectural design was adapted to fulfill—as well as disguise—the high-density housing requirements of fraternity chapter houses and early apartment buildings.
Amy Kilroy
M.Planning 2005
Amy investigated modern aspects of student housing at U.Va. She directed her research at the relationship between the City and the University, and the joint planning efforts of both parties as they seek to create better communities for residents and students.
Betsy Lawson
M.Arch.History, Preservation Certificate 2006
Betsy studied the history of residential colleges and of her current on-Grounds residence, Gooch-Dillard. Betsy compared and analyzed how architecture affected the formation of communities on- and off-Grounds.
Cora M. Palmer
M.Arch.Hist. 2005
Cora's work examines how the physical spaces and architectural language of three student housing complexes convey values of gender in the first half of the 19th century. Two of the complexes, Mary Munford Hall and the McCormick Road Dormitories, were both designed by the architects Eggers and Higgins in the early 1950s, yet one is solely for women and the other for men. These dormitories were contrasted with a Rugby Road boarding house.
Maria Ruiz
M.Architecture, Historic Preservation Certificate 2005
Maria studied the degree to which various student housing typologies determine social interaction among residents. Fraternity and language houses, dormitories and apartments were analyzed according to their circulation elements, shared vs. individual space and human scale.
John Spelman
Ph.D. student in Architectural History
John studied the University's use of temporary housing facilities, in particular the Barracks Club of 1920-1922 and the Copeley Hill trailer village, established in 1946.
Rachel Keren Valbrun
M. Planning, Historic Preservation Certificate 2005
Rachel wanted to understand how women created communal living spaces within a preexisting male dominated fraternal landscape. Each house she examined was built for a different purpose: a family, a fraternity, a boarding house, and a sorority.
Professor Daniel Bluestone
Professor Bluestone is the director of the University of Virginia's Historic Preservation program, and specializes in nineteenth-century American architecture and urbanism.