Architecture

Inside “Design Agendas”: the newest exhibition at the Kemper Art Museum

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has unveiled its newest exhibit, titled “Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s-1970s.” This exhibit, which will run until January 2025, features multimedia pieces highlighting St. Louis architecture, through the context of social and spatial changes in a post-World War II society.

| Contributing Writer

Sam Fox hosts architects in annual Fitzgibbon Charrete kickoff lecture and competition

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts hosted architects Brennan Buck and David Freeland to give the annual Fitzgibbon Charrette kickoff lecture, the first installment of the 2024 Spring Public Lecture Series, on January 26. 

| Contributing Writer

Pritzker-winning architect Francis Kéré discusses his work and inspires students in lecture

Diébédo Francis Kéré, the first African laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, presented his architectural works and encouraged students to use their education for positive change when he spoke as part of Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series, April 1. 

| Staff Writer

Behind the scenes with the architects of the East End

Arriving at the completed 570,000-square-foot landscape took years of planning, design and construction, about $360 million dollars and multiple teams of architects.

| Senior Editor

Sam Fox students adjust to a semester of virtual critiques

Artists are in a confusing but interesting place because of COVID-19, and they have taken the opportunity to explore their trade.

Gracie Hime | Staff Writer

Equipment catches fire in Givens Hall fabrication lab

The fire started when two graduate architecture students were working in the lab. Clayton Fire Department officials were called at 6:37 a.m., and extinguished the small fire shortly after arriving.

Merry May Ma | Contributing Reporter

Artist, architect Maya Lin talks career, environment

Artist and architect Maya Lin spoke on how her career began, habitat extinction and the connection between art and architecture to around 100 students in Graham Chapel Thursday.

| Contributing Reporter

Architecture school to ban carcinogenic material by fall 2016

Cancer-causing styrene is used in models made by architecture students at Washington University.

Rory Mather | Contributing Reporter

On St. Louis Patina, Chris Naffziger blogs the city’s beauty and blight

Chris Naffziger stops as we cruise through an area of North St. Louis where, for entire blocks, the city almost disappears. In front of us, on Hebert Street in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood, the crumbling skeleton of a building barely survives, making for a sight you might usually associate with the aftermath of a natural disaster. But instead of a tornado, brick thieves struck the historic four-family house, built in 1895, several years ago.

Chris Bean | Contributing Reporter

Architecture school ranked 4th in nation

A recent ranking of architecture schools placed Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, fourth in the nation. The ranking of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools” was published by Greenway Communications last week.

| News Editor

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