‘Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s’

‘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.
Adare Brown wins Steedman Fellowship in Architecture

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.
The hidden river

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

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 […]
Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA

Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA

Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake. Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might have seemed like an average midwestern town, the activism that exploded there after Brown’s killing laid bare how longstanding municipal planning policies had […]
Sam Fox School spring Public Lecture Series begins Jan. 26

Sam Fox School spring Public Lecture Series begins Jan. 26

Artists Judith Barry and Kahlil Robert Irving, architects Fernanda Canales and Michael Maltzan, landscape architect Julie Bargmann and philosopher Timothy Morton are among the internationally renowned creative professionals who will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring Public Lecture Series.
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