After losing funding for Bauhaus last year, the Architecture School Council hopes to replace the annual Halloween costume party with a week of smaller-scale events.

The week, called Sam Fox Fest, is expected to cost less than half of what Bauhaus did in 2013. The shift comes after Student Union did not fund Bauhaus through the general budget, citing concerns that hosting Bauhaus in the Givens Hall parking lot was too expensive.

ASC plans to appeal for Student Union funding for Sam Fox Fest. If it is successful, the fest will run from Oct. 27 to Nov. 1.

Like Bauhaus before it, the week of events will be a fundraiser for the Alberti Program, a free, weekly problem-solving and architecture workshop for students in the St. Louis school system.

ASC president junior Marina Archangeli said that she hoped a week of more, smaller events would give the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts more attention than Bauhaus alone did.

“There’s so many more events that people can go to,” Archangeli said. “It will get the art and architecture school on the map, make people more aware of who we are and what we do.”

The week will begin with a lecture by architect Peter Eisenman, whose work is displayed in the Kemper Art Museum, Archangeli said. Tuesday will feature benefit nights at different St. Louis restaurants that will donate a portion of their earnings to the Alberti Program.

Plans for the week continue with a Halloween movie night on Wednesday and an art and architecture trivia night at Market Pub House on Thursday.

On Friday, the ASC will host a “beer garden” with Fitz’s root beer and partner with Alpha Rho Chi, the art and architecture professional fraternity, for costume contests and a photo booth.

Finally, Saturday will include a harvest festival during the day with different food vendors from the St. Louis area, Archangeli said. The week will end Saturday night with a dance party at Atomic Cowboy, a local restaurant and bar.

Entrance is free and open to all members of the Washington University community for all events except the dance party at Atomic Cowboy, which will require a purchased ticket. Only around 150 tickets will be sold for the party, which will be much smaller than Bauhaus has been in the past.

Archangeli said the council, in re-evaluating Bauhaus, focused on creating something new that would reach a wide audience with a more modest budget.

“For the amount that we were paying, we weren’t really getting that much out of [Bauhaus],” she said. “We kind of started thinking of that even about a year ago, before Bauhaus last year even happened.”

In past years the ASC received around $25,000 from SU to pay for Bauhaus, but it is looking to appeal for about $10,000 this year for the new Sam Fox Fest. If the week goes well, Archangeli said, the ASC will attempt to include Sam Fox Fest in its SU-funded budget and skip the appeals process next year.

Sophomore and architecture student Rachel Weiss said she sees the change as potentially beneficial to the Sam Fox School.

“Architecture students and art students are kind of isolated from the rest of campus a lot, and people don’t really believe we exist sometimes,” Weiss said. “I think it will be nice if we kind of get the word out a little more, do a full week of events and talking about it rather than just a big one-night fundraiser.”

Weiss also noted that Bauhaus was not without its problems in the past. The dance party fundraiser was usually scheduled during Parents’ Weekend, and it also caused problems for people who needed to use Givens Hall during the weekend scheduled for the party.

“No one can get into studio or out,” she said. “It’s actually kind of inconvenient, because we’re not the only ones using the space. It’s used by the grad students and a lot of other different people.”

For sophomore Emily Mark, a member of Alpha Rho Chi, the lack of conflict with Parents’ Weekend made the event at Atomic Cowboy much more appealing than Bauhaus.

“That was the weirdest part,” she said. “My parents were here, and I can’t take my parents to Bauhaus, right?”