Architecture & Design

In the past five years, architecture and building technology industries have experienced a proliferation of "performance-aided design tools."

As precedents to the now abandoned coal camps of Appalachia, massive incorporated municipalities dedicated to resource extraction in India and China today, and growing tech communities in Silicon Valley.

The CGII grant will fund a traveling design studio, "ADG / Svalbard Studio", organized by the Arctic Design Group at UVA School of Architecture in Fall 2015.

Disruptive Stimuli is a design research project that proposes an alternative management strategy for invasive plant species and challenges existing methods of classification.

This grant funding will allow for critical diagramming and comparative graphic analysis between Tokyo and Charlottesville.

Geography of Exception attempts to provide a foundation with which to understand the complexities of Guantanamo Bay as a both a historical anomaly and a geopolitical grey zone.

The Global Thriving Cities Project is an extension of the Thriving Cities Project.

This research examines the future of rural space in a world increasingly characterized by mass migration to megacities.

The CGII grant will fund an international design symposium, ARCTIC STATES, at UVA in the spring of 2015 from April 17-19.

Argentina has the second largest shale gas reserve in the world and the environmental costs and benefits of developing this resource have yet to be studied.