[from Metropolis Magazine, by Susan Szenasy]

Hopeful Signs

On a historic campus in Virginia, the future of architecture is being built on a solid foundation.

As the end-of-semester crit wound down in John Quale’s EcoMOD studio at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, the fledgling architects and engineers ribbed one another. “You guys are hopeless nerds,” the architects said to the engineers, “with your slavish attachment to numbers!” “You’re impractical artistes,” the engineers countered, “who pro-pose unbuildable shapes.” Clearly, they were happy with their experience and the studio outcomes. Everyone agreed that the projects benefited from the intense collaboration.

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