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Architecture Stands Out Because It Has Something to Say to its Context : In conversation with Mario Botta
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Getting Out There Understanding Our Broader World
Learning is not bounded by the traditional classroom. Our graduate and undergraduate students partner with our faculty to conduct fundamental and applied research in the wide diversity of fields within the geosciences. This work occurs not only at Virginia Tech but also in the field and laboratories all over the world. From working in the remote Wrangell Mountains of Alaska, to working on the side of a volcano in Tanzania, to using cutting-edge instrumentation at the Argonne National Laboratory, our students are getting out there, learning, and making a difference.
Study Abroad
Our undergraduates also have the opportunity to participate in our study abroad program based at Virginia Tech s Steger Center for International Scholarship located in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. While there, students visit multiple locations in Europe to study a variety of geosciences topics and receive personalized instruction from several of the de
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From the Yellow House to the Kirchner Museum, these buildings offer a vision of what Swiss architectural style means.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Yellow House
Valerio Olgiati’s redesign of a 19th-century building in Flims constitutes a radical transformation of its character. Placed directly by the curving roadside, the Yellow House enjoys maximum impact on the cultural landscape of a town otherwise hidden from immediate view. This potential is fulfilled by the striking presence of the restored building: a timeless, deeply textured surface bearing the marks of construction, painted overall in white to emerge as a gloriously abstract volume. Its name the Yellow House is the last vestige of its past embodiment as a bourgeois town house with Neoclassical stylistic pretensions.