Arts & Culture

Paul WarcholBrian Healy ArchitectsBrian Healy, founder and principal of Brian Healy Architects in Boston, will launch the fall Architecture Lecture Series, sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, with a talk at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26.

Jazz at Holmes features professional musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in a relaxed, coffeehouse-style setting.

He’s the author of more than 30 books, including The Silo, The Hunt, Visitants and The Hierarchy of Sheep.

CarcaterraLorenzo Carcaterra has made a career out of writing gritty, powerful novels that become bestsellers. He will discuss these compellingly human stories of crime and violence for the Assembly Series on Wednesday, September 21 at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Karl Hagstrom Miller, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas, will speak on “Talking Machine World: Music and Globalization in the Early Twentieth Century” at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23.

St. Louis pianist Patrick McClellan will continue the fall Jazz at Holmes series with a performance from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22.

Below is a link to the Washington University news release about the U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings for 2004-05: http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/3627.html To view a full listing of U.S. News magazine, book and Web-only rankings for 2004-05, please visit the U.S. News & World Report site: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

Carl Phillips, professor of English and African & African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, has won two prestigious poetry awards — The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry — for his recent collection The Rest of Love: Poems (2004).

Ken BotnickUnsettled GroundLandscape. The word evokes mountain lakes and desert plains, rivers and trees and fields of green. Yet in present-day America, landscape has become an increasingly complex and divisive issue. Suburban development sprawls ever outward while many traditional urban cores crumble to rust and rubble. Once a nation of cities and farms, we now find ourselves confronting a frequently uneasy mixture of natural and postindustrial environments. On Sept. 19 and 20, the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a national symposium titled “Unsettled Ground: Nature, Landscape, and Ecology Now!” Co-sponsored with the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, “Unsettled Ground” is the first in a yearlong series of lectures, panel discussions, artistic interventions and workshops exploring the intersection of contemporary architecture, art, ecology and urban design.

St. Louis saxophonist Freddie Washington, a popular mainstay of Gaslight Square clubs in the 1960s, will launch Washington University’s ninth annual Jazz at Holmes series with a performance from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15.