Featured Fellows: The Art and Architecture of Carlton Abbott, FAIA
Jan. 19–Mar. 25, 2012

Carlton Abbott, FAIA, winner of more than 80 awards for architectural accomplishments, and son of the Blue Ridge Parkway’s original landscape architect, has enjoyed a brilliant career as an architect and artist. See a collection of his artwork including drawings, models, paintings, mixed media, sculpture and metal work.

Someday in the Park with George: The National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds
April 12–June 24, 2012
While the Washington Monument is the defining feature of the Washington, D.C., skyline and the centerpiece of the National Mall, at ground level its vast open space remains unfinished and underutilized. Over 500 participants from across the U.S. and around the world submitted their ideas. See 24 ideas elected by a jury of seven including distinguished designers, historians, a Washington cultural leader, and a futurist.

Young Spanish Architects
July 12–Sept. 2, 2012
See the best work from a generation of young architects from Spain. Selected from a pool of more than 700 entries by a prestigious international jury of architects and critics, the exhibition presents a variety of extraordinary works, rigorously constructed and deeply sensitive to their cultural or natural environment.

What Do You See: The Manchester Project
Sept. 13–Oct. 18, 2012
Manchester — a region of Richmond rich in history and culture, but afflicted by urban drought — has been dissected into two separate parcels by a 6-lane highway. Master plans for redevelopment have been prepared by the city planning office, but little action has occurred to implement the proposed plans. See an interactive kiosk designed, built, and installed by the 2011 class of the Emerging Leaders in Architecture that was designed to spark a dialogue with the community and find out their vision for the future.

Design 2012: A Retrospective of Winning Work
Oct. 25, 2012–Jan. 6, 2013
See the mid-Atlantic’s finest examples of architecture, interior design and preservation projects from 2012 in the fifth annual exhibition featuring award-winning work from the region.

On Permanent Exhibit
Virginia Center for Architecture headquarters and its architect, John Russell Pope, FAIAThe House That Pope Built

A permanent exhibit on the Virginia Center for Architecture headquarters building, built in 1919 by architect John Russell Pope, FAIA. Pope is renowned for the design of a number of national landmarks, including the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the U.S. National Archives, and the National Gallery of Art (West Building) in Washington, D.C., as well as Richmond's Union Station, headquarters of the Science Museum of Virginia. The House That Pope Built includes photographs, narrative, and other educational media that shed light on the house -- a 27,000-square-foot Tudor-Revival mansion -- in addition to John Kerr Branch, the patron who commissioned its construction; the architect; the house's interiors; its setting on Richmond's historic Monument Avenue; and Compton Wynyates, the 15th/16th-century English country house that inspired the building's design.

The Virginia Center for Architecture would like to thank a private Richmond foundation and Tourism Cares for their generous support of this exhibition.