We’d like to congratulate Professor Markus Breitschmid for being named one of the inaugural recipients of the Jacob A. Lutz III Award for Eminent Scholars during Virginia Tech’s annual research awards ceremony, Celebrating Scholarly Distinction, on Nov. 6.  

The Lutz Awards are Virginia Tech’s first named award for research at the university level, establishing high visibility and prestige for some of the university's most accomplished scholars and bolstering the university’s upward trajectory in scholarly research.

Jacob “Jake” A. Lutz III '78 established the Jacob A. Lutz III Awards for Eminent Scholars Endowment to fund the awards. The $1.15 million supports awarding four faculty members — one per disciplinary category — at $10,000 each for long-term, substantive contributions to research and creative scholarship. 

Breitschmid was awarded for his scholarship and research is in the field of architectural theory. His international impact in the discipline of architecture stems from a series of bestselling books and articles published in the world’s preeminent architecture journals in America, Asia, and Europe. He has also garnered many invitations from international architecture exhibition venues.

Breitschmid has authored 8 books, many of which have multiple prints and translations including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. A No. 1 bestselling architecture book on Amazon. 8 exhibitions in Berlin, Chicago, Lima, Lisbon, London, Milan, Paris, and Venice. Lectured by invitation in 16 countries on four continents.