March 30, 2007
  University of Virginia Wins $25,000 NCARB Grand Prize
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards Prize jury on March 12 named the University of Virginia as the $25,000 grand prize winner of the 2007 NCARB Prize. The annual award, as envisioned by 2001 NCARB President Peter Steffian, FAIA, recognizes excellence and innovation when bringing together architecture education and practice. Architecture schools with NAAB-accredited degree programs were invited to submit established projects—completed or in progress by the end of the fall 2005 semester—that demonstrate creative initiatives that integrate the academy and the profession within a studio curriculum.

National Building Museum to Present Inaugural Atherton Lecture and “Framing a Capital City” Symposium
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the National Building Museum have teamed up to present the first annual Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture on April 10. The following day, the “Framing a Capital City” Symposium will guide the National Capital Framework Plan, a joint National Capital Planning Commission/Commission of Fine Arts initiative to plan for the 21st century in Washington, D.C.

Happy Birthday, Stanislawa Nowicki!
Retired architecture educator Stanislawa “Siasia” Nowicki is celebrating her 95th birthday at the end of April, says her son, Paul. He has reached out to AIArchitect to share the news and to encourage former students, colleagues, and acquaintances of this “Grand Dame” of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania to surprise her with good wishes for a very special birthday. Still as famously sharp and elegant as former students vividly recall, she is living in Norwich, Vt., in the only home she ever designed in this country.

 

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