FALL 2025 FINAL REVIEWS - DETAILED SCHEDULE

Welcome to the UVA School of Architecture's Fall 2025 Final Reviews. This page provides an overview of the schedule and each studio review's faculty and invited guests. We wish all the students the very best for their final presentations!

 

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FA25 Final Reviews Dec 2-9
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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - First Year Core


ARCH 1020 — 
LESSONS IN MAKING

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Coordinator and Instructor: Sanda Iliescu

Reviews

Dec. 2 — 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Locations: 205, 220B, 302, 305

Dec. 3 — 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Locations: 108, 205, 305, 325


Exhibition and Reception

Dec. 5 — 9, with Reception on Dec. 9 from 11am - 12:30pm
Locations: 101A, VL Lobby, Salon Walls, Corner Gallery and Mezzanine


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Final Review Fall 2025 December 3 Date
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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Undergraduate Planning Studio


PLAC 4010 — 
NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING STUDIO
PLANNING WITH THE EASTERN SHORE

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Coordinator and Instructor: Barbara Brown Wilson

1pm - 3pm
Location: 220C
Critics: 
 


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Final Review Fall 2025 December 10 Date
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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Undergraduate Arch Studios

ARCH 2010 — 
FOUNDATION STUDIO II
SITUATED ASSEMBLIES: CONTEXT AND OPERATIONS IN DESIGN

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Coordinator and Instructor: Elgin Cleckley

10am - 3pm
Location: Elmaleh Gallery
Critics: Bhargavi Murthy
 


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Final Review Fall 2025 December 11 Date
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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Undergraduate Arch Studio

ARCH 2010 — 
FOUNDATION STUDIO II
SITUATED ASSEMBLIES: CONTEXT AND OPERATIONS IN DESIGN

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Section 1

Instructor: Lauren Cantrell

10am - 4pm
Locations: 220B and Salon Walls 
Critics: Mitch Crowder (1pm - 4pm), Jori Erdman (10am - 12pm)


Section 2

Instructor: Lindsay Duddy

10am - 4pm
Location: 302
Critics: Mitch Crowder (10am - 12pm), Nick Knodt (1pm - 4pm)


Section 3

Instructor: Tuomas Siitonen

10am - 4pm
Locations: VL Lobby and 101B
Critics: Margaret Rew (10am - 12pm), Charles Sparkman (1pm - 4pm)


Section 4

Instructor: Abe Wilson

10am - 4pm
Locations: East Wing Gallery and 101A
Critics: Jori Erdman (1pm - 4pm), Nick Knodt (10am - 12pm)


Section 5

Coordinator and Instructor: Zhicheng Xu

10am - 4pm
Locations: 220C and Salon Walls
Critics: Kevin Hirth (1pm - 4pm), Leandro Piazzi (10am - 12pm)
 


ARCH 3010 — 
FOUNDATION STUDIO IV

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Section 1
Meridian Center for Open Diplomacy

Instructor: Luis Pancorbo

10am - 4pm
Location: 405
Critics: Kevin Hirth (10am - 12pm), Leandro Piazzi (1pm - 4pm)


Section 2
A Student Center for Those on the Edge

Instructor: Peter Waldman

10am - 4pm
Location: 305
Critics: Margaret Rew (1pm - 4pm), Charles Sparkman (10am - 12pm)



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Final Review Fall 2025 December 12 Date
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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Undergraduate Arch Studio


ARCH 3010 — 
FOUNDATION STUDIO IV

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Section 1
Hirschhorn Extended: Making Art Storage Accessible

Instructor and Coordinator: JT Bachman

10am - 4pm
Locations: 220B and Salon Walls
Critics: Nick Brinen (1pm - 4pm), Joe Celentano (1pm - 4pm), Andrew Montgomery (10am - 12pm), Katie Stranix (1pm - 4pm)


Section 2
Structures for Citizen Action in DC

Instructor: Lucia Phinney

10am - 4pm
Locations: VL Lobby and 101B
Critics: Leandro Piazzi (1pm - 4pm), Margaret Rew (10am - 12pm)


Section 3
Contemporary Commons: Novel Assemblies for Networked Communities

Instructor: Ozan Şen

10am - 4pm
Locations: 220C and Salon Walls
Critics: Nick Brinen (10am - 12pm), Andrew Montgomery (1pm - 4pm)


Section 4
Bridging Divides: Making Place for Democracy and Health in Anacostia

Instructor: Schaeffer Somers

10am - 4pm
Location: 205
Critics: Kelly Callahan (1pm - 4pm), Joe Celentano (10am - 12pm), Elgin Cleckley (1pm - 4pm), Sasson Rafailov (10am - 12pm), Barbara Brown Wilson (10am - 12pm)
 


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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Graduate Arch Studios

 

ARCH 6010— 
FOUNDATION STUDIO I
THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF SPACE

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Section 1

Coordinator and Instructor: Robin Dripps

10am - 4pm
Location: 305
Critics: Kevin Hirth (10am - 12pm), Margaret Rew (1pm - 4pm)


Section 2

Coordinator and Instructor: Kyle Schumann

10am - 4pm
Location: 405
Critics: Kevin Hirth (1pm - 4pm), Leandro Piazzi (10am - 12pm), Tuomas Siitonen



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Final Review Fall 2025 December 15 Date
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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Graduate Landscape Arch Studio

 

LAR 6010— 
FOUNDATION STUDIO I
DESIGNING FOR CHANGE

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Instructors: Rebecca Hinch and Matthew Seibert (Coordinator)

9am - 3pm
Locations: East Wing Gallery, VL Lobby, 101A and 101B
Critics: Lauren Cantrell, Leena Cho (9am - 10:30am), Breck Gastinger, Michael Luegering (9am - 12pm), Erin Putalik, Saadia Rais, Emily Wettstein
 


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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Graduate Arch Studios

 

ARCH 7010— 
FOUNDATION STUDIO III
CITIZEN SPACE: COLLECTIVE LIVING IN THE AMERICAN CITY

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Section 1
Homework

Instructor: Ali Fard

9am - 5pm
Location: 205
Critics: Seth McDowell (9am - 12pm), William Sherman (1pm - 5pm)


Section 2
The Networked House

Instructor: María González Aranguren

9am - 5pm
Location: 405
Critics: Ila Berman (9am - 12pm), Mona El Khafif, Inés Martín-Robles, Luis Pancorbo


Section 3
Corporeal Mobility and Density

Instructor and Coordinator: Esther Lorenz

9am - 5pm
Location: Elmaleh Gallery
Critics: Ila Berman (1pm - 5pm), Sharon Haar, Elizabeth Meyer, Katie Stranix (9am - 12pm), Zhicheng Xu (9am - 12pm)


Section 4
Material Collectives

Instructor and Coordinator: Sasson Rafailov

9am - 5pm
Location: 305
Critics: Mert Kansu (9am - 12pm), Nana Last (1pm - 5pm), Katie MacDonald (9am - 12pm), Kyle Schumann (1pm - 5pm)
 


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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Advanced Research Studios

 

ARCH 4010 / ALAR 8010 — 
OPTION STUDIOS

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Section 1
Living Tectonics

Instructor: Ehsan Baharlou

9am - 5pm
Locations: 401 and 425
Critics: 


Section 2
Museum Unbound / Treacherous Grounds: Fire, Then Lobotomy

Instructor: Martín Cobas Sosa

9am - 5pm
Locations: 302 and 325
Critics: 


Section 3
City Built on Thawing Ground

Instructors: Leena Cho and Matthew Jull

1pm - 5pm
Location: 220B and 220C
Critics: Brian Davis, William Sherman, Tuomas Siitonen



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Final Review Fall 2025 December 16 Date
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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Graduate Landscape Arch Studio


LAR 7010 — 
FOUNDATION STUDIO III
PEOPLE, PLACE + COMMUNITY: CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN HARPSWELL, MAINE

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Instructors: CL Bohannon and Michael Luegering (Coordinator)

8:30am - 4pm
Locations: 220B, 220C and Salon Walls
Critics: Earl Mark, Ruby Zelinski
 


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Final Review Fall 2025 Title - Advanced Research Studios


ARCH 4010 / ALAR 8010 — 
OPTION STUDIOS

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Section 1
Fringe Territories: Designing Vienna's Exopolis

Instructors: Ila Berman and Mona El Khafif

9am - 4pm
Location: 205
Critics: Ali Fard, María González Aranguren, Esther Lorenz, Clayton Strange


Section 2
Wood at Scale

Instructor: Katie MacDonald

9am - 4pm
Location: VL Lobby and 101B
Critics: Martín Cobas Sosa, Sasson Rafailov (1pm - 4pm), Tuomas Siitonen, Zhicheng Xu (1pm - 4pm)
 

Section 3
Cadiz. A City in the Era of Hyper-Tourism

Instructor: Inés Martín-Robles

9am - 4pm
Locations: 302 and 325
Critics:
 

Section 4
Venice: Building through Time

Instructors: Erin Putalik and William Sherman

9am - 4pm
Locations: 401 and 425
Critics: Sandro Bisà, Bradley Cantrell, Shiqiao Li (9am - 12pm), Elizabeth Meyer (1pm - 4pm), Peter Waldman
 

Section 5
Restorative Space: Strategies for Supportive Architecture

Instructor: Katie Stranix

9am - 4pm
Location: 305
Critics: JT Bachman, Elgin Cleckley, Sanda Iliescu


Section 6
NJ Meadowlands: Liminal Landscape of Reckoning

Instructor: Emily Wettstein

9am - 4pm
Location: 405
Critics: Robin Dripps (9am - 12pm), Lindsay Duddy (9am - 12pm), Joey Hays, David Hill (9am - 12pm), Leah Kahler (1pm - 4pm), Michael Lee (1pm - 4pm)


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