Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Services*Bit.Fall* by Julius PoppChristiane Paul, adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will speak on Grid vs. Network: Aesthetics of New Media Spaces at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30. The talk is sponsored by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition [Grid Matrix], on view through Dec. 31.

Donald KosterNova Scotia summer cottageFaculty members, graduate students and recent alumni from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have received a total of five 2006 Design Awards from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The annual awards honor architects, designers and craftspersons for their contributions to excellence in the built environment. In all, 18 awards were given in five categories: Craftsmanship, Drawings, Interiors, Unbuilt and Architecture.

Donald KosterNova Scotia summer cottageFaculty members, graduate students and recent alumni from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have received a total of five 2006 Design Awards from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The annual awards honor architects, designers and crafts persons for their contributions to excellence in the built environment. In all, 18 awards were given in five categories: Craftsmanship, Drawings, Interiors, Unbuilt and Architecture. In addition, the Wainwright Building Complex received the chapter’s Twenty-Five Year Award.

Hamilton, one of the most challenging and provocative installation artists working today, is a 1993 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, popularly nicknamed the “genius grant.”

Sculptor transforms mundane consumer products into playful yet meticulously crafted artworks.

First art museum west of Mississippi River to open new facilities Oct. 25 by Fumihiko Maki, architect of Tower 4 at World Trade Center site

Eric P. Newman is one of the foremost American numismatists of the 20th and 21st centuries. On Oct. 25, Washington University in St. Louis will dedicate a state-of-the-art numismatics facility in his honor. The 3,000-square-foot Newman Money Museum, housed within the new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, features items drawn from Newman’s renowned collection as well as a numismatics library and workspace for scholars. Displays survey the history of coins and paper money from their beginnings and to the present day, as well as the relationship between money, society, culture and commemoration and related issues such as production, inflation and counterfeiting.

Courtesy Photo*Corpus,* by Ann HamiltonAnn Hamilton, one of the most challenging and provocative installation artists working today, will lecture on “The Practice of Work: From Silence to Speech” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26. Hamilton — a 1993 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, popularly nicknamed the “genius grant” — creates site-specific environments that combine new technologies with unusual, often playful materials and an almost theatrical sense of staging.

Bruce Lindsey, the Paul Rudolph Professor of Architecture at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., has been named dean of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, both part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

David Chipperfield, architect for the proposed Saint Louis Art Museum expansion, and Nigel Tonks, who is leading building services engineering for the project, will both speak as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Architecture Lecture Series.