Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings
The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo Bardi Lina Bo Bardi (1914–92) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini’s Fascist regime and emigrating to Brazil after World War II, she championed the power of architecture and design to embrace […]
A passion for design: Xiaohua Fei, founder X-urban Associates
Xiaohua Fei, MArch ’00, founded X-urban Associates, an architecture firm in China, after earning his master’s in architecture from Washington University.
Jorge Mario Jáuregui to discuss informal cities
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will launch its 2018 Informal Cities Workshop at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, with a free talk by Jorge Mario Jáuregui, a Brazilian architect taking on the challenge of population growth in informal settings.
The real deal
Paul Pariser, AB ’76, is reshaping Manhattan with his real estate development and investment firm, Taconic Investment Partners.
3 Stages of Architectural Education
Being located close to the geographical center of the United States carries with it the burden of balancing the theoretical investigations of the East Coast with the formal sculpturalism of the West Coast. The radical experiments in education that Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim carry out at Washington University in Saint Louis express the […]
Axi:Ome
WOOFTER+KIM
Edited by: Luis CarranzaIntroduction by: Nasrine SerajiEssays by: Kristina Van Dyke, Eric Mumford and Luis Carranza The book “Axi:Ome” is a collection of projects and essays about the St. Louis-based architectural practice led by Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim, which engages the architectural profession within the bounds of academic endeavors. Woofter and Kim have […]
Spatial Practice
Axi:ome
The book “Spatial Practice” is a collection of projects and essays on Axi:Ome llc of St. Louis, a young architectural design studio. Like most young designers they employ digital tools as design process. The difference between their and other young digital practices is the final output of the design resolution. Axi:Ome llc fully develops their work within […]
Specular
Between Practice and Education
Derived from the Latin words axiom and forme, the American based office of Axi:Ome engages in architecture as research: a mode of practice that directly interfaces with social, cultural economic and environmental influences. Over the course of eight chapters a total of eleven works from the office are examined, including the Media Arcade and Locust […]