[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.

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