AKI ISHIDA

March 22, 2019

Aki Ishida served as the jury chair and moderator of the 2019 Fitzgibbon Charrette at the Washington University in St. Louis. Open to all juniors and seniors in architecture, the annual charrette celebrates architectural drawing through a one-day sketch problem where the students refine and further develop one of their studio drawings. The students were asked to select one of their drawings that spoke to a particular phenomenon or experience specific to their project and further develop it. The winner was Senior Jenna Schnitzler. Igor Marjanović, the JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Professor, and assistant professor Kelley Van Dyck Murphy also served on the jury.

October 26, 2017

Aki Ishida presented "Transparent Ambiguity: SANAA's Glass Pavilion in Toledo" and participated in the Natural Light & Architecture panel at Parsons School of Design in NYC.  Other panelists were Davidson Norris from Carpenter Norris Consulting and Star Davis from Arup. The host and moderator was Glenn Shrum, Director of Parsons' MFA Program in Lighting Design.

April 21, 2017

Aki Ishida presented the paper "Material and Culture of the Glass Ceiling" at the third Frascari Symposium at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. The symposium honors the memory of sidereal architect, theorist, and educator Marco Frascari (1945–2013). The paper will be a chapter in the book Ceilings and Dreams: the architecture of levity edited by Paul Emmons, Federica Goffi, and Jodi La Coe and published by Routledge in 2019.

December 19, 2016

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has awarded Aki Ishida with the 2016-2017 ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award. The award recognizes demonstrated excellence in teaching performance during the formative years of an architectural teaching career.

September 22, 2016

Aki Ishida is presenting a paper entitled "Sanatorium Zonnestraal and a Case for a Nuanced Approach to Light Exposure" at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Fall 2016 conference at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.

September 01, 2016

The Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER) recognizes Aki Ishida, assistant professor of Architecture + Design, for engaging students in cognitive and sensory learning opportunities that foster student-driven discoveries.

June 12, 2016

Aki Ishida is one of Virginia Tech faculty members embarking on a research effort to invent new ways to utilize paving materials combined with technology to redefine and enhance the Drillfield experience.

November 18, 2015

Aki Ishida is named one of 25 most admired educators by DesignIntelligence. Each year, DesignIntelligence honors excellence in education and education administration by naming 25 exemplary professionals in these fields. The 2016 class of education role models was selected by DesignIntelligence staff with extensive input from thousands of design professionals, academic department heads, and students. See the list of all 25 here.

June 16, 2014

Aki Ishida and her collaborator Lynnette Widder were Runner Up in the 2014 Core77 Design Awards. The Project Making the Giraffe Path created workshop events and artifacts for the not-for-profit CLIMB (City Life is for Moving Bodies) to explore, record, and enhance the relationship between five parks along Northern Manhattan’s major escarpment and the communities along their edges. See what the jury said here.

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June 18, 2013

Lantern Field, a light and sound installation at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery in Washington, DC, is one of a dozen international winners of a 2013 Architectural Lighting Design Award. See jury comments and a video made by Architectural Lighting magazine here.