News
August 1, 2025
Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877–1940 to be published by ORO Editions
https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Authenticity-Architecture-America-1877-1940/dp/1957183942
May 28-9, 2025
“The Invention of the Window”
A lecture at Asian Archives Southeast University, Nanjing China as a part of the Symposium: “On Solid Human Foundations: Anthropologies of Modern Architecture” https://arch.seu.edu.cn/jz_en/2025/0527/c41158a529765/page.htm
May 27, 2025
“Craft as Embodied History”
Renhui Forum Lecture at the School of Architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing, China
https://arch.seu.edu.cn/jz_en/2025/0527/c41159a529758/page.htm
October 3, 2024
“Drawing on Glass with Soap”
A lecture to the Lutyens Trust America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04kS7DOrC_o
March 1, 2024
Amt, Ford, Price, and Wardell Elevated to Fellowship
AIA Virginia
https://www.aiava.org/amt-ford-price-and-wardell-elevated-to-fellowship/
Fall 2023
Fellow MacDowell Colony
https://www.macdowell.org/artists/edward-r-ford
2023
“The Long Wait for the Inevitable; Metanarratives in Construction”
An article in TAD Technology Architecture + Design, Volume 7, Issue 1: Tectonics, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utad20/7/1
June 2022
“Regionalism and its Discontents”
A book chapter in Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects by Peter MacKeith and Jonathan Boelkins
https://www.marlonblackwell.com/radical-practice/
2021
“The Age of Anxiety: Thoughts on Stability”
An article in Oz, the journal of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning, and Design
https://ozjournal.org/oz-journal/volume-43-2021/
May 2021
Michael Benedikt‘s Final Studio Review at UT Austin for design of an addition to the Ford House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxBNzYyxFU
February 2021
“Outside the Frame; Carlo Scarpa and Sverre Fehn”
A lecture given as a part of Washington University Lecture Series
https://samfoxschool.washu.edu/calendar/events/15-architecture-lecture-edward-ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrUi0Kky9Y
October 9, 2021
“Animism and Architecture”
A lecture at Southeast University, Nanjing as a part of the Communicative Construction Symposium. See Communicative Construction.
2021
Fay Jones Visiting Professor University Arkansas
January 15, 2021
“The Long Wait for the Inevitable: Repetition, Difference and Modernism”
A lecture given at Southeast University Nanjing
May 2020
Final review of Edward Ford’s “Joint” Studio, University of Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcXjTl0w8-k
2020
McDermott Visiting Professor University of Texas
https://soa.utexas.edu/news/introducing-spring-2020-visiting-faculty
2020
Approach 2019–2020
Student Work from Edward Ford’s course taught at Washington University
https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/publications/7-graduate-approach-2019-2020
2019
Washington University Visiting Professor
https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/academics/college-of-architecture/master-of-architecture/visitors
March 29, 2019
“Intolerance: Craft in the Age of Digital Perfection Embodied Histories of Craft”
A paper read at the ACSA Conference Pittsburgh
https://www.acsa-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/107-abstractbook-updated5.pdf
April 2019
“The Technology of Rustic Architecture in the West, 1904–1913”
A paper read at SAH Conference Providence
https://www.sah.org/docs/default-source/conference/2019-providence-program-final-web.pdf?sfvrsn=d5ad5a9b_2
April 24, 2019
“Modern living: Five local houses that break with tradition”
An article in C-Ville Weekly
https://c-ville.com/modern-living-five-local-houses-that-break-with-tradition/
2018
Central Virginia AIA Chapter Honors Recipient
Milton Latour Grigg Award: Edward R. Ford, AIA
https://www.aiacentralvirginia.org/past-honors-awards
2018
Four architects among MacDowell 2018 fall and early winter fellowships
http://bustler.net/news/tags/awards/274/6774/four-architects-among-macdowell-2018-fall-and-early-winter-fellowships
August 29, 2018
Art News: MacDowell Colony Awards Fellowships to 87 Artists
http://www.artnews.com/2018/08/29/macdowell-colony-awards-fellowships-87-artists/
June 30, 2018
Details, Details Symposium at The Raymond Farm Center
2018
Designing with Ruins in Post-Industrial Appalachia
Places Journal reading List
https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/designing-with-ruins-in-post-industrial-appalachia/
Sept 12, 2017
Studio Prize Awarded to Edward Ford and Luis Pancorbo
Architect Magazine
http://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/studio-prize-mining-appalachia_o
November 8, 2014
Virginia Film Festival: Discussion of Grey Matters with director Marco Orsini, Caroline Constant, Peter Waldman and Ed Ford
http://virginiafilmfestival.org/films/gray-matters/
2014
A Design Proposal for a Multipurpose Building at Great Basin National Park
https://www.nps.gov/grba/getinvolved/supportyourpark/air-ford.htm
2014
University of Cincinnati DAAP Lecture
https://daap.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/2014+Ed+Ford/1_vjmkvea9/36513181
November 13, 2013
“Showing the Distance: On the Virtues of Joinery”
A lecture given at UMass Amherst
October 9, 2012
Boston Society of Architects Space Author Series: Edward Ford, The Architectural Detail
2012
Edward Ford to be special Guest of Grand Canyon Artist in Residence Program
https://www.nps.gov/grca/getinvolved/supportyourpark/sr-air-2012-2013.htm
June 8, 2012
Ed Ford Blogs About His Week at the Kugel/Gips House
Fellow at Cape Cod Modern House Trust
December 2011
Across the Institute: In Houston, Des Moines, Dayton, Washington, D.C., and Richmond
AIA ARCHITECT AIANOW
https://www.architectmagazine.com/aia-architect/aianow/across-the-institute-in-houston-des-moines-dayton-washington-d-c-and-richmond_o
October 2 , 2011
Architecture Professor Ed Ford Wins Prize for Design Research and Scholarship
https://news.virginia.edu/content/architecture-professor-ed-ford-wins-prize-design-research-and-scholarship
January 2011
Edward Ford to Give Anselevicius Memorial Lecture
October 5, 2010
“Confessions of a Failed English Major”
A Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor lecture presented at the University of Oregon Department of Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xbZ_Fk8gA
2010
Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professorship
https://archenvironment.uoregon.edu/pietro-belluschi-distinguished-visiting-professorship
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
Samuel Ludwig’s Photographs of the Ford House
https://www.flickr.com/photos/st_ludwig/8229158944/in/photostream/
© 2025–2026
Edward R Ford, Architect
All Rights Reserved
News
August 1, 2025
Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877–1940 to be published by ORO Editions
https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Authenticity-Architecture-America-1877-1940/dp/1957183942
May 28-9, 2025
“The Invention of the Window”
A lecture at Asian Archives Southeast University, Nanjing China as a part of the Symposium: “On Solid Human Foundations: Anthropologies of Modern Architecture” https://arch.seu.edu.cn/jz_en/2025/0527/c41158a529765/page.htm
May 27, 2025
“Craft as Embodied History”
Renhui Forum Lecture at the School of Architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing, China
https://arch.seu.edu.cn/jz_en/2025/0527/c41159a529758/page.htm
October 3, 2024
“Drawing on Glass with Soap”
A lecture to the Lutyens Trust America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04kS7DOrC_o
March 1, 2024
Amt, Ford, Price, and Wardell Elevated to Fellowship
AIA Virginia
https://www.aiava.org/amt-ford-price-and-wardell-elevated-to-fellowship/
Fall 2023
Fellow MacDowell Colony
https://www.macdowell.org/artists/edward-r-ford
2023
“The Long Wait for the Inevitable; Metanarratives in Construction”
An article in TAD Technology Architecture + Design, Volume 7, Issue 1: Tectonics, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utad20/7/1
June 2022
“Regionalism and its Discontents”
A book chapter in Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects by Peter MacKeith and Jonathan Boelkins
https://www.marlonblackwell.com/radical-practice/
2021
“The Age of Anxiety: Thoughts on Stability”
An article in Oz, the journal of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning, and Design
https://ozjournal.org/oz-journal/volume-43-2021/
May 2021
Michael Benedikt‘s Final Studio Review at UT Austin for design of an addition to the Ford House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxBNzYyxFU
February 2021
“Outside the Frame; Carlo Scarpa and Sverre Fehn”
A lecture given as a part of Washington University Lecture Series
https://samfoxschool.washu.edu/calendar/events/15-architecture-lecture-edward-ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrUi0Kky9Y
October 9, 2021
“Animism and Architecture”
A lecture at Southeast University, Nanjing as a part of the Communicative Construction Symposium. See Communicative Construction.
2021
Fay Jones Visiting Professor University Arkansas
January 15, 2021
“The Long Wait for the Inevitable: Repetition, Difference and Modernism”
A lecture given at Southeast University Nanjing
May 2020
Final review of Edward Ford’s “Joint” Studio, University of Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcXjTl0w8-k
2020
McDermott Visiting Professor University of Texas
https://soa.utexas.edu/news/introducing-spring-2020-visiting-faculty
2020
Approach 2019–2020
Student Work from Edward Ford’s course taught at Washington University
https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/publications/7-graduate-approach-2019-2020
2019
Washington University Visiting Professor
https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/academics/college-of-architecture/master-of-architecture/visitors
March 29, 2019
“Intolerance: Craft in the Age of Digital Perfection Embodied Histories of Craft”
A paper read at the ACSA Conference Pittsburgh
https://www.acsa-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/107-abstractbook-updated5.pdf
April 2019
“The Technology of Rustic Architecture in the West, 1904–1913”
A paper read at SAH Conference Providence
https://www.sah.org/docs/default-source/conference/2019-providence-program-final-web.pdf?sfvrsn=d5ad5a9b_2
April 24, 2019
“Modern living: Five local houses that break with tradition”
An article in C-Ville Weekly
https://c-ville.com/modern-living-five-local-houses-that-break-with-tradition/
2018
Central Virginia AIA Chapter Honors Recipient
Milton Latour Grigg Award: Edward R. Ford, AIA
https://www.aiacentralvirginia.org/past-honors-awards
2018
Four architects among MacDowell 2018 fall and early winter fellowships
http://bustler.net/news/tags/awards/274/6774/four-architects-among-macdowell-2018-fall-and-early-winter-fellowships
August 29, 2018
Art News: MacDowell Colony Awards Fellowships to 87 Artists
http://www.artnews.com/2018/08/29/macdowell-colony-awards-fellowships-87-artists/
June 30, 2018
Details, Details Symposium at The Raymond Farm Center
2018
Designing with Ruins in Post-Industrial Appalachia
Places Journal reading List
https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/designing-with-ruins-in-post-industrial-appalachia/
Sept 12, 2017
Studio Prize Awarded to Edward Ford and Luis Pancorbo
Architect Magazine
http://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/studio-prize-mining-appalachia_o
November 8, 2014
Virginia Film Festival: Discussion of Grey Matters with director Marco Orsini, Caroline Constant, Peter Waldman and Ed Ford
http://virginiafilmfestival.org/films/gray-matters/
2014
A Design Proposal for a Multipurpose Building at Great Basin National Park
https://www.nps.gov/grba/getinvolved/supportyourpark/air-ford.htm
2014
University of Cincinnati DAAP Lecture
https://daap.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/2014+Ed+Ford/1_vjmkvea9/36513181
November 13, 2013
“Showing the Distance: On the Virtues of Joinery”
A lecture given at UMass Amherst
October 9, 2012
Boston Society of Architects Space Author Series: Edward Ford, The Architectural Detail
2012
Edward Ford to be special Guest of Grand Canyon Artist in Residence Program
https://www.nps.gov/grca/getinvolved/supportyourpark/sr-air-2012-2013.htm
June 8, 2012
Ed Ford Blogs About His Week at the Kugel/Gips House
Fellow at Cape Cod Modern House Trust
December 2011
Across the Institute: In Houston, Des Moines, Dayton, Washington, D.C., and Richmond
AIA ARCHITECT AIANOW
https://www.architectmagazine.com/aia-architect/aianow/across-the-institute-in-houston-des-moines-dayton-washington-d-c-and-richmond_o
October 2 , 2011
Architecture Professor Ed Ford Wins Prize for Design Research and Scholarship
https://news.virginia.edu/content/architecture-professor-ed-ford-wins-prize-design-research-and-scholarship
January 2011
Edward Ford to Give Anselevicius Memorial Lecture
October 5, 2010
“Confessions of a Failed English Major”
A Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor lecture presented at the University of Oregon Department of Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xbZ_Fk8gA
2010
Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professorship
https://archenvironment.uoregon.edu/pietro-belluschi-distinguished-visiting-professorship
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
Samuel Ludwig’s Photographs of the Ford House
https://www.flickr.com/photos/st_ludwig/8229158944/in/photostream/
© 2025–2026
Edward R Ford, Architect
All Rights Reserved
News
August 1, 2025
Searching for Authenticity: Rustic Architecture in America 1877–1940 to be published by ORO Editions
https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Authenticity-Architecture-America-1877-1940/dp/1957183942
May 28-9, 2025
“The Invention of the Window”
A lecture at Asian Archives Southeast University, Nanjing China as a part of the Symposium: “On Solid Human Foundations: Anthropologies of Modern Architecture” https://arch.seu.edu.cn/jz_en/2025/0527/c41158a529765/page.htm
May 27, 2025
“Craft as Embodied History”
Renhui Forum Lecture at the School of Architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing, China
https://arch.seu.edu.cn/jz_en/2025/0527/c41159a529758/page.htm
October 3, 2024
“Drawing on Glass with Soap”
A lecture to the Lutyens Trust America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04kS7DOrC_o
March 1, 2024
Amt, Ford, Price, and Wardell Elevated to Fellowship
AIA Virginia
https://www.aiava.org/amt-ford-price-and-wardell-elevated-to-fellowship/
Fall 2023
Fellow MacDowell Colony
https://www.macdowell.org/artists/edward-r-ford
2023
“The Long Wait for the Inevitable; Metanarratives in Construction”
An article in TAD Technology Architecture + Design, Volume 7, Issue 1: Tectonics, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utad20/7/1
June 2022
“Regionalism and its Discontents”
A book chapter in Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects by Peter MacKeith and Jonathan Boelkins
https://www.marlonblackwell.com/radical-practice/
2021
“The Age of Anxiety: Thoughts on Stability”
An article in Oz, the journal of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning, and Design
https://ozjournal.org/oz-journal/volume-43-2021/
May 2021
Michael Benedikt‘s Final Studio Review at UT Austin for design of an addition to the Ford House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxBNzYyxFU
February 2021
“Outside the Frame; Carlo Scarpa and Sverre Fehn”
A lecture given as a part of Washington University Lecture Series
https://samfoxschool.washu.edu/calendar/events/15-architecture-lecture-edward-ford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrUi0Kky9Y
October 9, 2021
“Animism and Architecture”
A lecture at Southeast University, Nanjing as a part of the Communicative Construction Symposium. See Communicative Construction.
2021
Fay Jones Visiting Professor University Arkansas
January 15, 2021
“The Long Wait for the Inevitable: Repetition, Difference and Modernism”
A lecture given at Southeast University Nanjing
May 2020
Final review of Edward Ford’s “Joint” Studio, University of Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcXjTl0w8-k
2020
McDermott Visiting Professor University of Texas
https://soa.utexas.edu/news/introducing-spring-2020-visiting-faculty
2020
Approach 2019–2020
Student Work from Edward Ford’s course taught at Washington University
https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/publications/7-graduate-approach-2019-2020
2019
Washington University Visiting Professor
https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/academics/college-of-architecture/master-of-architecture/visitors
March 29, 2019
“Intolerance: Craft in the Age of Digital Perfection Embodied Histories of Craft”
A paper read at the ACSA Conference Pittsburgh
https://www.acsa-arch.org/wp-content/uploads/107-abstractbook-updated5.pdf
April 2019
“The Technology of Rustic Architecture in the West, 1904–1913”
A paper read at SAH Conference Providence
https://www.sah.org/docs/default-source/conference/2019-providence-program-final-web.pdf?sfvrsn=d5ad5a9b_2
April 24, 2019
“Modern living: Five local houses that break with tradition”
An article in C-Ville Weekly
https://c-ville.com/modern-living-five-local-houses-that-break-with-tradition/
2018
Central Virginia AIA Chapter Honors Recipient
Milton Latour Grigg Award: Edward R. Ford, AIA
https://www.aiacentralvirginia.org/past-honors-awards
2018
Four architects among MacDowell 2018 fall and early winter fellowships
http://bustler.net/news/tags/awards/274/6774/four-architects-among-macdowell-2018-fall-and-early-winter-fellowships
August 29, 2018
Art News: MacDowell Colony Awards Fellowships to 87 Artists
http://www.artnews.com/2018/08/29/macdowell-colony-awards-fellowships-87-artists/
June 30, 2018
Details, Details Symposium at The Raymond Farm Center
2018
Designing with Ruins in Post-Industrial Appalachia
Places Journal reading List
https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/designing-with-ruins-in-post-industrial-appalachia/
Sept 12, 2017
Studio Prize Awarded to Edward Ford and Luis Pancorbo
Architect Magazine
http://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/studio-prize-mining-appalachia_o
November 8, 2014
Virginia Film Festival: Discussion of Grey Matters with director Marco Orsini, Caroline Constant, Peter Waldman and Ed Ford
http://virginiafilmfestival.org/films/gray-matters/
2014
A Design Proposal for a Multipurpose Building at Great Basin National Park
https://www.nps.gov/grba/getinvolved/supportyourpark/air-ford.htm
2014
University of Cincinnati DAAP Lecture
https://daap.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/2014+Ed+Ford/1_vjmkvea9/36513181
November 13, 2013
“Showing the Distance: On the Virtues of Joinery”
A lecture given at UMass Amherst
October 9, 2012
Boston Society of Architects Space Author Series: Edward Ford, The Architectural Detail
2012
Edward Ford to be special Guest of Grand Canyon Artist in Residence Program
https://www.nps.gov/grca/getinvolved/supportyourpark/sr-air-2012-2013.htm
June 8, 2012
Ed Ford Blogs About His Week at the Kugel/Gips House
Fellow at Cape Cod Modern House Trust
December 2011
Across the Institute: In Houston, Des Moines, Dayton, Washington, D.C., and Richmond
AIA ARCHITECT AIANOW
https://www.architectmagazine.com/aia-architect/aianow/across-the-institute-in-houston-des-moines-dayton-washington-d-c-and-richmond_o
October 2 , 2011
Architecture Professor Ed Ford Wins Prize for Design Research and Scholarship
https://news.virginia.edu/content/architecture-professor-ed-ford-wins-prize-design-research-and-scholarship
January 2011
Edward Ford to Give Anselevicius Memorial Lecture
October 5, 2010
“Confessions of a Failed English Major”
A Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor lecture presented at the University of Oregon Department of Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xbZ_Fk8gA
2010
Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professorship
https://archenvironment.uoregon.edu/pietro-belluschi-distinguished-visiting-professorship
OTHER SITES OF INTEREST
Samuel Ludwig’s Photographs of the Ford House
https://www.flickr.com/photos/st_ludwig/8229158944/in/photostream/