Anselmo Canfora joined the faculty at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor the fall term, 2004. An area of particular interest to him is teaching the beginning design student. While teaching at the Universit
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Anselmo Canfora joined the faculty at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture as an Assistant Professor the fall term, 2004. An area of particular interest to him is teaching the beginning design student. While teaching at the University of Michigan for seven years, Anselmo was the 2002 and 2004 recipient of the Donna M. Salzer Award of Teaching Excellence. He graduated from the University of Michigan with high distinction and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal. Anselmo was awarded an ACSA Faculty Research/Design Award during the annual conference in Chicago. In 2007, Anselmo founded Initiative reCOVER, a program established to assist disaster recovery efforts and underserved populations through partnerships with humanitarian, community-based organizations, and professional firms. Initiative reCOVER promotes a collaborative entrepreneurial interdisciplinary spirit in service of real-world, hands-on, design-build learning experiences and the advancement of building technologies, methods, and materials. In 2010, Anselmo received an AIA Education Honor Award for reCOVER’s Gita primary school project in Uganda.
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