visiting professors and alumni
Sylvia Karres, 2015 Robertson Guest Professor for the Vortex
Landscape Architect, Karres en Brands, Hilversum, The Netherlands
As the keynote lecturer for the 4th annual Vortex design workshop at the School of Architecture, Ms. Karres will discuss her professional work and roots in the Dutch landscape, and the way the Dutch landscape has developed and continues to develop. For over 15 years, Karres en Brands landscape architects, based in the Netherlands, has worked on diverse projects, studies and competitions, both at home and abroad. Their work encompasses every scale of spatial design, from area strategies and infrastructural projects to parks and gardens, and from urban planning assignments to product design. With this, they rely on enthusiasm and craftsmanship, and continuously broaden their outlook towards developing appropriate and innovative responses to the challenges of today.
Guy Geier, FAIA, principal and managing partner, FXFOWLE architects, NYC
Guy is an architecture alum (BSArch and MArch) and member of our Dean’s Advisory Board. He has also worked at Hillier, NBBJ, and Vitra. Guy’s awrd-winning designs include the ASU architecture school and the National Audubon Society headquarters. Recently, he worked with our former colleague, Ken Schwartz (now Dean at Tulane Architecture) on the comprehensive sustainability plan for the Tulane architecture school.
http://www.fxfowle.com/
http://www.fxfowle.com/profile/8/people/6/guy+geier/
Daniel Bluestone, Director, Preservation Program, & Professor of Architectural History, Boston University
Prof. Bluestone is the former UVA Director of Historic Preservation and key participant in Vortex 1 and 2, and will join Beth Meyer as a critic on Friday from 3-5 pm. They are the co-authors (with Bill Sherman) of a white paper on UVA residential culture (on the server as a reference). Daniel, Robin Dripps and Genevieve Keller taught a Community History workshop and studio on infill residential ideas for the university in the mid 1990s. Daniel is also an expert on the history of UVA student housing-from dorms to boarding houses to fraternity houses. We are available to meet with the planning+research teams, and the design teams.
Bill Skelsey, principal, Ayers Saint Gross (ASG), Washington DC
Bill is a UVA landscape architecture alum and a GSD MArch alum with an expertise in urban design. Bill has experience working on UNESCO sites and cultural landscapes in the Middle East. He works with ASG principal Luanne Green (UVA BSArch and MArch) who is their director of campus planning. She had hoped to participate, but had a conflict.
http://asg-architects.com/
Mike Evans, FAIA, principal and former President), Hanbury Evans architects, Norfolk
Mike is a UVA architecture alum; several of his employees are recent UVA grads. Hanbury Evans has broad experience in the design of campus residential halls at universities across the US, including the Rice University residential colleges and some recent awrd-winning work at Tulane, post-Katrina. They have also been very involved in the AIA’s emerging leaders program.
http://www.hewv.com/
http://www.hewv.com/#/510
Professor Jim Igoe, UVA anthropology department
Jim joined UVA’s faculty in 2013. His research and teaching focuses on “connections between the environmental side of human experience and the human side of interactions with the environment.” Jim has expressed interest in becoming involved in the School of Architecture’s nascent cultural landscape initiatives.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/part-nature-or-apart-nature-new-professors-explore-human-responses-environment
Associate professor Katya Makarova, sociology department
Katya is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology. She is an urban sociologist and social geographer with a research focus on public space and the entanglements of public+private. A native of the Soviet Union, Katya has special expertise in the urbanization of Russian and Eastern European cities. Katya has lectured and attended studio crits in the A-School over the years, and looks forward to creating connections with our faculty and students involved in our new urban design initiatives.
Mary Hughes, FASLA, Landscape Architect with expertise in cultural landscapes
Mary is a UVA alum who worked for the National Park Service in their cultural landscape division on modern landscapes such as Saarinen and Kiley’s St Louis Arch Grounds. For 20 years, she has been key to the preservation, design and planning of the University’s Academical Village and the grounds. She managed the first stormwater management plan for the University, and the first demonstration project, the Dell designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz and Biohabitats. Mary and her husband are also the owners of a small winery and part of the local foods movement in Charlottesville. They planted their vines seven years ago, and work the land on the weekends. So, Mary’s expertise in cultural landscape is professional and personal, intellectual and manual, historical and bio-physical.
Julia Monteith, Landscape Architect and Land Use Planner
Julia came to UVA with considerable experience at Sasaki in San Francisco and the University of California Berkeley’s Office of the Architect. While at UVA, she has managed the University’s first systematic land use plan and numerous precinct plans, been a leader in the sustainable design and planning initiatives and served as a liaison with the Albemarle County planning commission.
David Neuman, FAIA, architect and planner
https://news.virginia.edu/content/david-neuman-step-down-post-architect-university
David just retired as the University Architect, a position he served in for 11 years. In addition to many other accomplishments, David brought the university’s planning and design guidelines into synch with contemporary sustainability practices, managed the South Lawn project and the renovation of the Rotunda.
David Oakland, principal, VMDO, Charlottesville
David is an architecture alum (BSArch and MArch), and the O in VMDO. He has won numerous design awards for his campus work over the past several decades on campuses for high schools as well as colleges. David was the architect of record for the Hereford College, working closely with Todd Williams and Billie Tsien. He and Nancy Takahashi, our colleague, were the principals at Hereford College before Wendy Cohen (Professor of Public Health) and A-School Lecturer Schaeffer Somers.
http://www.vmdo.com/firm_team_member.php?ID=2
Landscape Architect, Karres en Brands, Hilversum, The Netherlands
As the keynote lecturer for the 4th annual Vortex design workshop at the School of Architecture, Ms. Karres will discuss her professional work and roots in the Dutch landscape, and the way the Dutch landscape has developed and continues to develop. For over 15 years, Karres en Brands landscape architects, based in the Netherlands, has worked on diverse projects, studies and competitions, both at home and abroad. Their work encompasses every scale of spatial design, from area strategies and infrastructural projects to parks and gardens, and from urban planning assignments to product design. With this, they rely on enthusiasm and craftsmanship, and continuously broaden their outlook towards developing appropriate and innovative responses to the challenges of today.
Guy Geier, FAIA, principal and managing partner, FXFOWLE architects, NYC
Guy is an architecture alum (BSArch and MArch) and member of our Dean’s Advisory Board. He has also worked at Hillier, NBBJ, and Vitra. Guy’s awrd-winning designs include the ASU architecture school and the National Audubon Society headquarters. Recently, he worked with our former colleague, Ken Schwartz (now Dean at Tulane Architecture) on the comprehensive sustainability plan for the Tulane architecture school.
http://www.fxfowle.com/
http://www.fxfowle.com/profile/8/people/6/guy+geier/
Daniel Bluestone, Director, Preservation Program, & Professor of Architectural History, Boston University
Prof. Bluestone is the former UVA Director of Historic Preservation and key participant in Vortex 1 and 2, and will join Beth Meyer as a critic on Friday from 3-5 pm. They are the co-authors (with Bill Sherman) of a white paper on UVA residential culture (on the server as a reference). Daniel, Robin Dripps and Genevieve Keller taught a Community History workshop and studio on infill residential ideas for the university in the mid 1990s. Daniel is also an expert on the history of UVA student housing-from dorms to boarding houses to fraternity houses. We are available to meet with the planning+research teams, and the design teams.
Bill Skelsey, principal, Ayers Saint Gross (ASG), Washington DC
Bill is a UVA landscape architecture alum and a GSD MArch alum with an expertise in urban design. Bill has experience working on UNESCO sites and cultural landscapes in the Middle East. He works with ASG principal Luanne Green (UVA BSArch and MArch) who is their director of campus planning. She had hoped to participate, but had a conflict.
http://asg-architects.com/
Mike Evans, FAIA, principal and former President), Hanbury Evans architects, Norfolk
Mike is a UVA architecture alum; several of his employees are recent UVA grads. Hanbury Evans has broad experience in the design of campus residential halls at universities across the US, including the Rice University residential colleges and some recent awrd-winning work at Tulane, post-Katrina. They have also been very involved in the AIA’s emerging leaders program.
http://www.hewv.com/
http://www.hewv.com/#/510
Professor Jim Igoe, UVA anthropology department
Jim joined UVA’s faculty in 2013. His research and teaching focuses on “connections between the environmental side of human experience and the human side of interactions with the environment.” Jim has expressed interest in becoming involved in the School of Architecture’s nascent cultural landscape initiatives.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/part-nature-or-apart-nature-new-professors-explore-human-responses-environment
Associate professor Katya Makarova, sociology department
Katya is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology. She is an urban sociologist and social geographer with a research focus on public space and the entanglements of public+private. A native of the Soviet Union, Katya has special expertise in the urbanization of Russian and Eastern European cities. Katya has lectured and attended studio crits in the A-School over the years, and looks forward to creating connections with our faculty and students involved in our new urban design initiatives.
Mary Hughes, FASLA, Landscape Architect with expertise in cultural landscapes
Mary is a UVA alum who worked for the National Park Service in their cultural landscape division on modern landscapes such as Saarinen and Kiley’s St Louis Arch Grounds. For 20 years, she has been key to the preservation, design and planning of the University’s Academical Village and the grounds. She managed the first stormwater management plan for the University, and the first demonstration project, the Dell designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz and Biohabitats. Mary and her husband are also the owners of a small winery and part of the local foods movement in Charlottesville. They planted their vines seven years ago, and work the land on the weekends. So, Mary’s expertise in cultural landscape is professional and personal, intellectual and manual, historical and bio-physical.
Julia Monteith, Landscape Architect and Land Use Planner
Julia came to UVA with considerable experience at Sasaki in San Francisco and the University of California Berkeley’s Office of the Architect. While at UVA, she has managed the University’s first systematic land use plan and numerous precinct plans, been a leader in the sustainable design and planning initiatives and served as a liaison with the Albemarle County planning commission.
David Neuman, FAIA, architect and planner
https://news.virginia.edu/content/david-neuman-step-down-post-architect-university
David just retired as the University Architect, a position he served in for 11 years. In addition to many other accomplishments, David brought the university’s planning and design guidelines into synch with contemporary sustainability practices, managed the South Lawn project and the renovation of the Rotunda.
David Oakland, principal, VMDO, Charlottesville
David is an architecture alum (BSArch and MArch), and the O in VMDO. He has won numerous design awards for his campus work over the past several decades on campuses for high schools as well as colleges. David was the architect of record for the Hereford College, working closely with Todd Williams and Billie Tsien. He and Nancy Takahashi, our colleague, were the principals at Hereford College before Wendy Cohen (Professor of Public Health) and A-School Lecturer Schaeffer Somers.
http://www.vmdo.com/firm_team_member.php?ID=2
Text taken from Dean Beth Meyer and Genevieve Keller's emails.