by Kevin Matthews

On behalf of everyone at ArchitectureWeek, and the entire extended design and building community, I want to express our deepest sympathies to all the victims of Monday's tragedy in the Blue Ridge Mountains, at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shattered by the twisted violence of a broken soul: stricken survivors, families, friends, witnesses, associates.

Saturated, overflowing, or washed distantly with grief, all who know of this tragedy are touched through with its sadness.

As part of the community of architecture, engineering, and construction, we want to give some special attention to these past and future colleagues lost:

Liviu Librescu Professor, Engineering Science & Mechanics G.V. Loganathan Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Kevin Granata Professor, Engineering Science & Mechanics Minal Hiralal Panchal Mumbai, India Graduate Student, Architecture Waleed Mohamed Shaalan Egypt; Blacksburg, Virginia Graduate Student, Civil Engineering Matthew Gwaltney Chester, Virginia Environmental Engineering Jeremy Herbstritt Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Graduate Student, Civil Engineering Brian Bluhm Cedar Rapids, Iowa Graduate Student, Civil Engineering Dan O'Neil Lafeyette, Rhode Island Graduate Student, Civil Engineering Juan Ortiz Graduate Student, Civil Engineering Jarrett Lane Narrows, Virginia Senior, Civil Engineering

In time, memorials to these and all the victims will rise in Hokie stone, and they will be remembered as long as the stone endures.

Kevin Matthews
Editor in Chief
ArchitectureWeek

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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