Monday, October 8, 2007

Students and Alumni Win Honors in Local Design Competition

School of Architecture students and alumni won second and third places in the Market Value Design Competition directed by the City of Charlottesville, the Charlottesville Community Design Center (CCDC), and the Virginia Society of the AIA (VSAIA), as announced on Saturday. The competition brief called for ideas for developing a site in the central downtown section of Charlottesville that is currently a parking lot.

Graduate students James Huemoeller and David Malda were awarded second place, and the Barcelona-based design firm Speranza Architecture, lead by Philip Speranza (BSArch’97) won third. Alumnus James Dayton (MArch’91) of James Dayton Design, Ltd. based in Minneapolis was awarded an Honorable Mention. First place was given to the firm Little, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Information about the winning projects will be available shortly on the competition website at
www.marketvaluecompetition.org.

For more information, please see:

Market Value : A Design Competition