Diggs Faculty Study Groups , 4-6 p.m., Owens Banquet Hall. Groundbreaking ceremony for the Advanced Communications and Information Technology Center. Through September 17. Fred Chappell, poetry and fiction. A reception will follow at 9 p.m. at the University Club on the Virginia Tech campus.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
During his presentation, Kilper will revisit certain events of 20th-century architecture to reveal that which will mark the architecture of the next century. Kilper joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in 1975. He has chaired his college's Core Professional Program and Graduate Program, headed its Department of Building Construction, and directed its Building Science Program. He has fostered numerous instructional and curriculum innovations and has won two college teaching excellence awards. In recognition of his contributions to his teaching and practice, Kilper received the T.A. Carter Endowed Professorship of Architecture.