Hylarie McMahon, professor emerita, artist, 94
Hylarie McMahon, a professor emerita of art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, died in hospice Oct. 1 following a short illness. She was 94.
The lion, the wizard and the Sam Fox School professor
In his latest book, ‘The Mythmakers,’ John Hendrix creates a mesmerizing, enchanting tale of the friendship — and literary legacies — of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Engaged City initiative to launch
This fall, WashU will launch The Engaged City. Building on the long-running Divided City initiative, and funded in part by a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, The Engaged City aims to highlight St. Louis’ cultural resources.
‘Design Agendas’ symposium Oct. 25-26
The “Design Agendas” public symposium, presented by WashU’s Kemper Art Museum and Sam Fox School, will explore the past, present and future of St. Louis urban design Oct. 25 and 26.
Sam Fox School fall Public Lecture Series begins Sept. 9
Architect Mimi Hoang, urban planner Toni Griffin and artist Josephine Halvorson are among the internationally renowned creative professionals who will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School’s fall Public Lecture Series.
Samuels named director of sustainable design, environmental justice
Linda C. Samuels, a professor and chair of urban design in WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named the school’s inaugural director of sustainable design and environmental justice.
‘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.
Building on relationships
As director of the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, Kathryn Feldt works at the confluence of natural elegance and architectural brilliance.
Throw like a girl
How graphic artist Bonnie Korte became, at 72, the first woman in the U.S. to earn kudan, a ninth degree rank in judo.
The infrastructure of fragmentation
In “Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA,” Patty Heyda charts the forces that have shaped Ferguson and other first-ring American suburbs since the early 1980s. Tax incentives, housing codes, roadways, policing, philanthropy, even landscaping — all can work against the fundamental betterment of residents’ lives.
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