The story of modern architecture in St. Louis is complex and often contradictory. Beginning in the 1930s, internationally known architects such as Eric Mendelsohn, Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki — alongside important regional and national figures like Harris Armstrong, Charles Fleming... View full entry

Washington University in St. Louis has announced the appointment of Aki Ishida as the next director of the Sam Fox School College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. The current associate professor and interim associate director of Virginia Tech’s School of... View full entry

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has shared its Spring ‘24 public lecture schedule as part of our Get Lectured rundown of speaking events on campus this semester. The lectures begin on Friday, January 26, with the Fitzgibbon Charrette Kickoff... View full entry

This week, we are continuing our Get Lectured series with a look at the big names coming to The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in the Fall 2023 semester. The semester has already seen appearances from Adam Pendleton, Marie Lorenz, and Crystal Z... View full entry

This week, we are continuing our Get Lectured series with a look at the big names coming to The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis in the Spring 2023 semester for what promises to be a packed slate of public lectures and events. The month kicks off with... View full entry

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis has announced its Fall 2022 public events and lecture programming for its College of Architecture, College of Art, and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The school explains, "each semester,  the school... View full entry

In cynical times, optimism gets a bad rap. In her new book “Infrastructural Optimism” (Routledge 2021), Linda C. Samuels, associate professor of urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, argues that optimism is not simply a... View full entry

Pink umbrellas tumble on hidden winds. IP addresses cross like city streets. Bright islands of community float like balloons tethered to gray infrastructural networks. In her wall-sized drawing “Confronting Urbanization: The Interactive Tissue of Urban Life Pro[log]ue,” Petra Kempf, assistant... View full entry

This post is brought to you by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis  Climate change, COVID-19, the fight for social justice. In disruptive times, how can architecture help to chart new paths and implement far-reaching solutions? That’s the... View full entry

Fall is upon us and as the school term is well underway architecture schools continue to roll out their Fall 2021 lecture series. Continuing with Archinect's coverage of lecture programs we feature presentations from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St... View full entry

Constance Vale has been named chair of undergraduate architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Vale, who joined the Sam Fox School as an assistant professor in 2017, previously taught at SCI-Arc and the University of California, Los Angeles... View full entry

From headwaters near Salem, Missouri, the Meramec River snakes 218 free-flowing miles, through 14 counties and scores of towns, skirting St. Louis before emptying into the mighty Mississippi. Derek Hoeferlin grew up outside St. Louis, on a wooded hill close to the Meramec. As he commuted to school... View full entry

As schools are ramping up for the Fall term, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured. This ongoing series features each school's lectured series and their graphic design prowess with eye-catching lecture posters.  With many schools holding virtual events, distance is no... View full entry

The city has changed. The city is always changing, but COVID-19 has accelerated the process. From New York and Hong Kong to Brisbane, Manaus and Copenhagen, the pandemic is reshaping the ways we think about urban space. “In a matter of just two or three months, people have completely... View full entry

The virtual ceremony — which will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 14 — will celebrate graduating students from the Sam Fox School’s undergraduate College of Art and College of Architecture, and from the Graduate School of Art and Graduate School of Architecture and... View full entry