SAMARA House survey wins national architectural honors
Architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have placed third in the National Park Service’s 2021 Charles E. Peterson Prize Competition.
Sam Fox School, AIA St. Louis announce ‘Disruption,’ 2021 Steedman Fellowship
The Sam Fox School’s James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture, a biennial research competition, invites early-career architects from around the world to explore how architecture can help to address today’s most pressing global challenges.
Infrastructural Optimism
“Infrastructural Optimism” investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interdependence of resources and agencies, recognizes a rightfully accelerated need for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes rising environmental diligence across the design disciplines. Bringing together urban history, case studies, and speculative design propositions, the book explores and defines […]
Vale named chair of undergraduate architecture
Constance Vale has been named chair of undergraduate architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Another honor for university’s sustainable building practice
The U.S. Green Building Council awarded Washington University a 2021 Leadership Award for excellence in its West North Central Region.
Inside the Lewis Collaborative
The charge was ambitious. Conditions were complicated. The results have been transformative. Here’s how the Lewis Collaborative reinvented a century-old University City landmark.
East end project recognized
Washington University’s East End Transformation recently was honored by the St. Louis Business Journal as part of its 2021 “Building St. Louis” awards.
Watershed moments
The effects of climate change cannot be handled piecemeal, argues Derek Hoeferlin. Managing 21st-century waterways will require coordination on a continental scale — and a foundational understanding of how water shapes our environment.
Sam Fox School welcomes national ACSA conference
More than a dozen faculty, students and alumni from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will take part in “Expanding the View: Prospect(s) for Architectural Education Futures,” the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s 109th annual meeting.
Levy awarded NOMA Foundation Fellowship
Theodore “Teddy” Levy, a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow and dual-degree candidate in architecture and urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named a 2021 Foundation Fellow by the National Organization of Minority Architects.
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