Architecture lectures to include Maki, Wodiczko and Whiteread

Fumihiko Maki, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Rachel Whiteread are among the speakers scheduled for this spring’s School of Architecture’s Monday Night Lecture Series. The series will feature more than a dozen presentations by established masters and emerging talents from England, Greece, Japan, Norway, Poland, Spain and across the United States. Lecture series schedule All lectures are […]

The St. Louis Projection at St. Louis Public Library April 16-18

Krzysztof Wodiczko’s The St. Louis Projection, a poignant and provocative community art project about the shattering effects of violence and the healing power of public discourse, will be broadcast onto the St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive St., from 9-11 p.m. April 16-18. The piece consists of audio testimony by a half-dozen St. Louis residents […]

Maki to present Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture

Fumihiko Maki, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect of the planned Sam Fox Arts Center, will lecture on “Image, Space and Materiality” at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 in Steinberg Auditorium. The talk will serve as the Sam Fox Arts Center Lecture. Maki, principal of Maki & Associates in Tokyo, is renowned for fusing elements of Eastern and […]

School of Art to launch Portfolio Plus program

The School of Art’s new “Portfolio Plus” program, which will run June 16-July 9 and is open to all St. Louis-area high-school students, will consist of morning sessions focusing on art fundamentals and afternoon sessions centered on one of seven studio disciplines. The 9 a.m.-noon sessions will include a drawing class emphasizing observational drawing and […]

Murray to speak on medieval architecture and new media

Stephen Murray, a leading authority on medieval art and architecture and founder of the Visual Media Center at Columbia University, will speak on “Medieval Architecture and the New Media: Representing and Creating Humanistic Content” at 6 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Gallery of Art. A reception for Murray will immediately follow the talk. A specialist […]

Have a seat

Photo by Mary ButkusTwo benches honoring architecture Dean Cynthia Weese were installed recently outside of Givens Hall.

Grand groundbreaking

Photo by Joe AngelesMore than 1,000 people gathered April 14 for the groundbreaking of the Sam Fox Art Center’s Kemper Art Museum and Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall.
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