The ISTUDIO X WAAC team is a collaboration of practitioners and students built on a long-standing relationship between ISTUDIO Architects and the Virginia Tech Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC). ISTUDIO Architects is a mission-driven practice dedicated to creating artful, sustainable communities. The firm has received international acclaim for bold work that redefines design excellence in the service of climate action. The WAAC is a student-centered, design-focused urban lab that views the city as the locus of imaginative exploration and critical reflection on the human condition in the built environment. Since 1980, the WAAC has served as an urban extension of the Virginia Tech’s internationally-renowned School of Architecture + Design. For the last 20 years ISTUDIO Principal and Founder Rick Harlan Schneider, FAIA, and WAAC Director Susan Piedmont-Palladino have addressed issues facing America’s capital city with a new vision of Washington DC in its third century. Award-winning work has been featured in the Washington Post and the History Channel City of the Future program.

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