University of Virginia Library

New A-School
Wins Civic
Recognition

A four-story brick and concrete
building that is the University's new
School of Architecture was cited Monday
night as the building exemplifying a
distinguished effort to improve the
community.

The award, made by the Civic League
of Charlottesville and Albemarle County,
was presented by James A. Bear, curator
of Monticello. Frank L. Hereford Jr., University
provost, accepted the citation.

Civic League members toured the facility
following their annual meeting last night in the
auditorium of the new school. Located on
Carr's Hill, behind the president's home, the
building and an adjoining library are the first
phases of the University's proposed fine arts
center.

The award-winning building was called "the
most significant . . . constructed at the University
since Jefferson designed and built the
original academical village, in terms of style,
character, innovation, quality and almost any
other good term you choose" by Joseph N.
Bosserman, dean of the architectural school.

Increased space for the School of Architecture
is a primary feature of the $3.3 million
facility which contains three times the space of
that available in Fayerweather Hall. The new
structure has seven seminar rooms as opposed
to the one in Fayerweather Hall and three
step-seat auditorium classrooms.

Special equipment includes a darkroom, a
blue-line printer and a wind tunnel. There are
also special laboratory areas that allow class
presentations and exercises and indoor and
outdoor workshops.

Rawlings and Wilson of Richmond are
architects for the new building, designed by
Pietro Belluschi and Kenneth DeMay of Sasaki,
Dawson, DeMay Associates, Associated Architects
for Design, Watertown, Mass.