Author: Liam Otten

His research long has focused on applying digital tools to design and construction practice. In 1992, his work in digital-aided manufacturing was cited by Engineering News Record as one of the year’s 10 most significant contributions to the construction industry.

The experimental Los Angeles troupe led by artistic director and Academy Award-winner Tim Robbins will present a new stage adaptation of Orwell’s dystopic classic Feb. 16-17.

The NAE is a private, independent, nonprofit institution that has approximately 2,000 peer-elected members who are among the world’s most accomplished engineers.

Courtesy photoJo LabanyiJo Labanyi, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, will speak on “Facts and Fictions: Knowledge, Delinquency and Madness in Late 19-Century Spain” Feb. 27 as part of the Center for the Humanities’s 2007 Faculty Fellows’ Lecture and Workshop Series. The following day Labanyi will lead a workshop on the rigid ordering of gender in 19th-century Spain.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will present a concert of music drawn from theatrical works at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, in the university’s Graham Chapel. Dan Presgrave, instrumental music coordinator in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciecnces, will conduct the concert, which highlights Aaron Copland’s music for the ballet Rodeo. Also on the program are the “Masquerade Suite” of Aram Khachaturian and Frederick Delius’s “The Walk to the Paradise Garden.”

303 Gallery, New YorkCollier Schorr, *Lina, Opening Braid, Bettringen*Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, Germany has re-emerged as a potent intellectual and creative center within the international art world. This month, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis opens Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the first thematic museum exhibition to examine how contemporary artists have dealt — both directly and indirectly — with the social, economic and political ramifications of German unification.

Photo by Kevin LowderRichard Ayres, a dancer and choreographer with Paul D. Mosley Dance Inc. in New York, works with fellow company member Lanileigh Ting during a recent master class with the dance program in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.

Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis, Hillary Petrie and Tyler Survant”Interface”Three teams from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts took top honors in the St. Louis Gateway Mall Follies Ideas Competition. Sponsored by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the competition sought to generate innovative and unexpected ideas for the Gateway Mall downtown. Projects would serve as “visual anchors” for the area while helping to guide public movement along the Mall to the Gateway Arch.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesNoga Landau as AgnesConservative versus liberal, political versus personal, father versus daughter. Such are the forces at play in civil disobedience, a world premiere drama by Carter Lewis, playwright-in-residence in Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences. Commissioned by the PAD, the play centers on the relationship between Fred, a conservative justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and his daughter Marlee, a social activist and Manhattan bookstore owner.

Courtesy photoBruce LindseyArchitect Bruce Lindsey — who joined the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts last fall as dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design — will speak about his work at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19, as part of the spring Architecture Lecture Series.