The Envelope, Please

摘要

Designing Practice, a soup-to-nuts course offered at Virginia Tech on professional practice, took home the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards $25,000 grand prize this year. Taught by Keith Zawistowski, Assoc. AIA, and Marie Zawistowski, principals at OnSite Architecture, the curriculum included risk management, licensure, and ethics. Through lectures by area architects, firm visits, and research, the Zawistowskis (the School of Architecture+Design's first professors of practice) helped make the academy-to-practice transition not just clearer, but more palatable. Since 2001, NCARB has awarded $555,000 to NAAB-accredited programs that explore the practice/academy relationship.