2024-11-21T13:46:47-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150017407/deans-list-heather-woofter-discusses-the-future-direction-of-sam-fox-school-of-design Julia Ingalls 2017-08-01T13:34:00-04:00 >2017-10-02T20:21:26-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/wy/wynqkr37x2yiv7jm.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Heather Woofter is already a familiar face around the Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts at <a href="http://archinect.com/schools/cover/17418/washington-university-in-st-louis" target="_blank">Washington University in St. Louis</a>, where she's been teaching since 2005. She also practices what she teaches, having continued working with her design partner Sung Ho Kim at the firm <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/34865644/axi-ome" target="_blank">Axi:Ome</a> since she joined in 2003. Now that she's been appointed director of the respected design school's architecture programs, what are her pedagogical goals?&nbsp;She discusses her approach toward taking a school with one of the oldest established urban design programs in the country into the future in the interview below.&nbsp;</p>