[from Interior Design Magazine]

firm: joel sanders architect, karen van lengen architect

site: charlottesville, virginia

Joel Sanders and Karen Van Lengen should run for office. They're two of few leaders we can think of who practice what they preach. And what they teach. An associate professor at Yale University, Sanders created a course called Making Sense: Architecture, Technology, and the Body. “I’ve been studying the relationship between design and the human senses,” he says. “How architecture sees but doesn’t hear.” Van Lengen's research focuses more on the architecture of communication, and she is currently preparing to teach a course devoted to that this fall at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where she was formerly the dean for a decade and is currently the Kenan Professor of Architecture. Several recent projects by the two firms, Joel Sanders Architect and Karen Van Lengen Architect, have addressed their combined research specifically.

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