Family Weekend — A-School Open House

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Join us for an A-School Open House During Family Weekend

We invite parents and families of our A-School students to join us at Campbell Hall to kick off Family Weekend (11.07– 11.09). Meet Dean Malo A. Hutson, our distinguished alumni awardee, our Student Affairs team, faculty, and student ambassadors, and participate in hands-on activities, tours, and information sessions. Lunch provided. 

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Schedule

9am: Arrival and Hands-on Activity for Families

Campbell Hall, Van Lengen Lobby (1st floor main lobby)

— Coffee + Bagels
— Check-In
— Hands-on Activity for Families, details forthcoming
 

10am: Welcome and Insights from our Distinguished Alumni Awardee

Campbell Hall 153

— Dean Malo A. Hutson and our Student Council President welcome families to the School of Architecture
— This year's Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, Zena Howard, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP (BArch '88) shares insights on her prolific career and how her time at the A-School shaped these experiences
 

11am: Choose Your Own Adventure

Throughout Campbell Hall 

— Select one or more of the following activities to participate in during this part of the day's program (from 11am - 12pm):

• Resource Fair with staff across Academic Advising, Career Development, Financial Support, Counseling and Psychological Services, and Engagement and Belonging
  Campbell Hall, Van Lengen Lobby (1st floor main lobby)
   
• Campbell Hall Tours 
  • To join a guided tour, meet at Campbell Hall's 2nd floor lobby 

  • To take a self-guided tour, use this QR code:

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• FabLab Tours with our Fabrication Lab Manager Melissa Goldman
  Campbell Hall 125 (1st floor)
   
• Faculty, Student, Alumni and External Exhibitions (self-guided):
  • The Land is Full: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
    This exhibition highlights work by landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBWLA), whose senior principal  and owner Thomas Woltz, FASLA, is an alumnus of the UVA School of Architecture, with graduate degrees in architecture and landscape architecture. The exhibition, and its accompanying book, celebrates NBWLA's practice of revealing cultural and ecological histories embedded in the land and transforming them into meaningful public spaces. 
    Learn more here.
    Elmaleh Gallery (2nd floor)
     
  • The Poetics of Immanence: China Summer Program
    Chinese gardens in the Jiangnan region offer deep insights into what designing the environment can mean. This exhibition features the work of faculty directors Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz and their students from the 2025 UVA School of Architecture's Summer in China Program — an exploration of design concepts and strategies that emerged by visiting both traditional and contemporary gardens. Learn more here.
    Corner Gallery (2nd floor) 
     
  • Questioning Through Drawing: Vicenza Summer Program
    Drawing is at the core of a designer's work as it actively combines the processes of observation. The UVA School of Architecture Vicenza Program, that takes students to the heart of the Veneto region of Italy, centers drawing as an instructive process that when combined with a concerted effort to seek out, question, and document connections, serves as a powerful tool to maintain positive and creative output. This exhibition highlights students' sketchbooks from the summer 2025 study abroad Vicenza program, complimented by photography.
    Learn more about the Vicenza program.
    Mezzanine (2nd floor) 
     
  • NIL_The Banks: A Glimpse into the Tidelands of North Carolina
    The Natural Infrastructure Lab (NIL), directed by Associate Professor Brian Davis, works to develop innovative natural infrastructure that enhances human and ecological health over time. This exhibition features ongoing research into place-specific nature-based infrastructure for bays and estuaries supported through a partnership with Engineering with Nature (EWN).
    Learn more about the Natural Infrastructure Lab.
    Salon Walls (2nd floor) 
     
  • Select Work from the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient, Zena Howard
    Each year, the School's Deans Advisory Board votes on an award recipient that recognizes a distinguished alum of the School. This year's winner, Zena Howard, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP (BSArch '88), is Principal Managing Director at Perkins&Will's North Carolina practice, where she has shaped an extraordinary career defined by visionary, complex, and culturally significant projects like Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Howard shares her architectural work with Perkins&Will this through this exhibition. 
    Learn more about our distinguished alumni award winner here.
    Dean's Gallery (2nd floor)
     
  • Selected Works by Letitia Huckaby
    Acclaimed photographer Letitia Huckaby uses portraiture to explore African American heritage and pay homage to enslaved ancestors and their descendants. Learn about the artist’s research-based practice—a reexamination of history and its connection to the contemporary black experience. 
    Learn more about the artist.
    East Wing Gallery (1st floor)
     

12pm: Lunch

Campbell Hall 101 (off of 1st floor main lobby)

1pm: Career Development Overview

Campbell Hall 160

— Learn about the wide range of career development programs and offerings for School of Architecture student from our Director of Career Development Lindsay Schiller