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  1. A conversation with Dean Karen van Lengen of the University of Virginia School of Architecture
    A conversation with Dean Karen van Lengen of the University...

    with Karen Van Lengen on Sep 1, 2006

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Karen Van Lengen, Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, holds the Edward E. Elson Chair in Architecture. As Dean and former Chair of the Architecture Department at Parsons School of Design, Van Lengen founded and developed programs to support research in collaboration with the pedagogical goals of each institution.

At Parsons she founded the Design Workshop Program, an integrated design build studio that is now a required part of the March curriculum. She founded The Campbell Constructions Program at the University of Virginia where she selected various faculty designers to make projects in and around the School of Architecture. She created the new Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to promote a more synthetic relationship between these two disciplines.

In her own research she is currently investigating the role of sound in the creation and delineation of space. Her projects include residential and institution work including a design consultant role at the Supreme Court. In 1990, she won the prestigious America Memorial Library Competition in Berlin, Germany.

Source - http://www.arch.virginia.edu/faculty/KarenVanLengen/