Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Soumen Rakennustaiteen Museo (SRM)McDonald’s-Finland Headquarters in HelsinkiHas corporate architecture doomed the city? Over the last century, corporate headquarters — as well as churches, universities and government institutions — have been pillars of the urban environment, embodying the culture, values and aspirations of their societies. Yet today’s corporations — competing in global, open-market economies; distanced and disassociated from the means of production — have increasingly situated themselves on the suburban periphery, replacing civic engagement with simple displays of technological prowess. As a result, “corporations must be seen as potential ‘dissolving agents’ of the cities in which they have chosen to locate,” argues Peter MacKeith, associate director of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also serves as associate dean of Architecture.

The first time Jerry Sincoff designed a house, he failed. Literally. As a ninth-grader at Hanley Junior High in University City, Sincoff — a voracious draftsman with an affinity for buildings and rocket ships — was required to enter the inaugural Greater St. Louis Science Fair. Instead of a science display, he submitted a conceptual […]

Healy is serving as the Sam Fox School’s Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture for 2005-06.

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.

“Unsettled Ground: Nature, Landscape, and Ecology Now!” is co-sponsored with the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

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Two exhibitions of Bill Kohn’s work are on view at the William & Florence Schmidt Art Center at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville.

Subsequent speakers include painter T.L. Solien, photographer Phyllis Galembo, graphic designer Michael Mabry and painter Helene Aylon.

The staged reading focuses on Margaret, a young Korean-American architecture student who must present her final degree project.

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.