Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center

Virginia Tech Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center
Motto Ut Prosim (Latin)
Motto in English
 That I May Serve
Type Public university
Established 1980
Director Jaan Holt
Location Alexandria, in VA, USA
Colors Chicago maroon and Burnt orange[1]          
Mascot HokieBird
Affiliations Virginia Tech
Website www.waac.vt.edu

The Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC), is an extension center of Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies, located in Old Town Alexandria. It houses the Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, and Undergraduate Architecture programs for students from a wide variety of locations. Located on an urban campus of six buildings in the heart of Old Town, WAAC allows upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design to address the complexities of urban areas using the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region as a resource laboratory for design and research. The center also encompasses a consortium of architecture schools from around the globe.[2]

Overview

The WAAC has operated as the urban extension of Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies in the Washington metropolitan area since 1980. This past year, around 170 students from 10 consortium universities were presently enrolled. The WAAC is committed to individual professional growth through the design process as revealed and validated by the produced work. WAAC honors research leading to codified objective knowledge in an evolutionary process of reconsideration and representation. This assures the consortium a polemic ranging from the philosophic through the scientific, without a rigid dogma, and with a sense of individual responsibility.[3]

Facilities

Currently the university has three teaching locations on Prince Street and owns two other buildings on Patrick Street. In addition, the WAAC Rectory houses the American Institute of Architects (AIA) offices and the Gallery serves as a limited capacity dormitory for students in the region.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Brand Guide: Virginia Tech Identity Standards and Style Guide" (PDF). Virginia Tech. May 2013. p. 45. Retrieved September 11, 2015. The burnt orange and Chicago maroon are the university's official colors that were adopted in 1896.
  2. ↑ About WAAC
  3. ↑ About the WAAC
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