Sam Fox School fall Public Lecture Series begins Sept. 9
Architect Mimi Hoang, urban planner Toni Griffin and artist Josephine Halvorson are among the internationally renowned creative professionals who will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School’s fall Public Lecture Series.
Samuels named director of sustainable design, environmental justice
Linda C. Samuels, a professor and chair of urban design in WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named the school’s inaugural director of sustainable design and environmental justice.
‘Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s’
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s” beginning Sept. 13. With nearly 300 architectural drawings, models, photographs, films, digital maps and artworks, “Design Agendas” is the first major exhibition to examine how interlocking civic, cultural and racial histories, as well as conflicting ideological aims, reshaped the city.
Building on relationships
As director of the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, Kathryn Feldt works at the confluence of natural elegance and architectural brilliance.
Adare Brown wins Steedman Fellowship in Architecture
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based architect Adare Brown has been selected as winner of the 2023-24 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. Established in 1926, the biannual $75,000 prize, which supports research through international travel, is among the largest such fellowships in the United States.
Class Acts: Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Corrigan, a graduate degree candidate in landscape architecture from the Sam Fox School, says good landscape design can make cities more resilient and beautiful.
Global talent, proud advocate
As an architect and as co-chair of Make Way: Our Student Initiative, Carrie Johnson seeks to construct places of belonging.
Ishida to lead architecture, landscape architecture and urban design programs
Aki Ishida, an associate professor and interim associate director of the School of Architecture at Virginia Tech, has been named director of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
The hidden river
The Mississippi River defines St. Louis, shaping its life and culture. But today, for many St. Louisans, that connection has been broken, says Derek Hoeferlin, chair of landscape architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Lina Bo Bardi
Architecture comme action collective
The National Art History Institute in Paris has published Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture comme action collective [Architecture as collective action] by Zeuler R. Lima, associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. The book proposes to understand the dialogue Lina Bo Bardi’s visionary and critical […]
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