Twenty-First Century Chair in Integrated Practice

In an effort to challenge, question, participate and lead in the next evolution of building design and construction, the School of Architecture created the Twenty-First Century Chair in Integrated Practice in 2007.

Through the use of virtual building software that supports collaboration, integrated practice brings architects, landscape architects, engineers, contractors, fabricators and building owners together early in a project, saving time, money and eliminating waste. The goal of this chair is to focus discussion on how to best prepare students for a new age of integrative practice, digital design, and open share communication of information and data.

Alumnus Brad Workman (B.Arch. '78), vice president of building and plant solutions for software firm Bentley Systems Inc. is the inaugural holder of the Twenty-First Century Chair in Integrated Practice. An architect, global business executive and pioneer in the development of building information modeling, a new digital design methodology that supports integrated practice, Workman is uniquely qualified to lead this initiative.

"Today we have the ability to model a building in virtual reality and study it before it has actually been built. This is BIM."

Brad Workman, Twenty-First Century Chair in Integrated Practice