Deborah Berke Awarded the 2022 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion
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Mr. Rector, members of the Board of Visitors, graduates, colleagues, family, friends – welcome.
My name is Jim Ryan, and in addition to being the president of UVA, I am the host for today’s ceremony, and I will also officially award the degrees. It’s exciting to think that we are sharing a unique moment in UVA history: You are graduating in Scott Stadium, and I am fulfilling a lifelong dream – to be on the Jumbotron, in the endzone of Scott Stadium, with a football.
I have to be honest with you: I feel like this moment is a bit miraculous. Not because you’re graduating – we all expected that. But given all of the stops and starts we have had to endure, the plans made and the plans scrapped, hopes raised and hopes dashed, just to get to this moment. Believe me when I say I could not be happier or more grateful to be here, right now, with all of you. If you feel the same way, please let me know.
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Born in Burkina Faso, architect Francis Kéré maintains a practice in Berlin, but has become renowned for his work, much in Africa, which focuses on community-based solutions and the use of local, sustainable materials. As further recognition of his rising star, he has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. The socially engaged and ecologically resilient works of Kéré architecture have also been celebrated with many awards, including the global award for sustainable architecture (2009), the Marcus prize (2011), the global Lafargeholcim gold (2012), and the Schelling architecture foundation award (2014) among others. Commenting on the 2021 Thomas Jefferson foundation medal in architecture recipient, school of architecture dean Ila Berman said, ‘beginning with Francis Kéré’s original wor