Author: Liam Otten

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present two new exhibitions beginning Friday, May 6, and running through Monday, Aug. 1. Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation is the first solo museum exhibition in the American Midwest for the influential conceptual artist, who lives and works in Cologne, Germany. The 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition will feature projects by 24 graduating master of fine arts candidates in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts honored eight outstanding architecture and art alumni at its fourth annual Awards for Distinction dinner April 28 at the Coronado Ballroom in St. Louis. The awards recognized graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to the practices of art, architecture and design, as well as to WUSTL and the Sam Fox School.

Annelise Mertz, professor emerita in the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences, died Friday, April 28, at her home in Clayton, of pancreatic cancer. She was 93.

It is perhaps a cliché that solving the environmental issues of the 21st century will require creativity, but the reverse is also true. For professionals in design or the visual and performing arts, the modern environmental movement is a source of both professional challenge and increasing opportunity. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, Washington University’s Edison Theatre and Office of Sustainability will host a panel colloquium on “Environmentalism and the Arts.”  

Marshall Brown is an assistant professor at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he teaches architecture and urban design. He also was appointed the first Saarinen Architecture Fellow at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is teaching with Architect in Residence William Massie during the 2010-11 school year. Brown earned a […]

Richard Brown is president of Handshouse Studio, Inc., an innovative non-profit organization dedicated to hands-on exploration of history, science, mathematics, literature, arts, culture, and technology. The group—which Brown co-founded in 1999 with his wife, Laura—works with students, educational institutions, and major media organizations to create exactingly researched and constructed replicas of historic structures. For example, […]

Rodney Henmi has devoted his architectural career to improving design quality in two often underserved building types: affordable housing and industrial architecture. Born and raised in St. Louis, Henmi earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota in 1975, then spent several years with Roger Johnson and Associates in Minneapolis and Onuma […]

Raymond Nadaskay, a practicing architect for the past 44 years, is co-founder and principal emeritus of NK Architects. The firm is a leader in educational and health-care projects with an emphasis on sustainable design. His longstanding contributions to Washington University include his commitment to developing scholarships for architecture students and his support of capital improvements […]

Cynthia Weese was a founding partner of Weese Langley Weese, a distinguished Chicago architecture firm, and taught widely before becoming dean of the School of Architecture in 1993. Since stepping down as dean in 2005, she has continued her practice. Weese earned a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Sciences in 1962 and a Bachelor of […]

Susan T. Morgan, AIA, LEED AP, is a senior project architect with Bruner/Cott & Associates, a Cambridge-based design firm focused on architectural preservation, sustainability, and collaborative design. Born into a family of architects in Minnesota, Morgan earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, magna cum laude, from Washington University in 2001 and a Master of […]