College of Architecture
Multidisciplinary Learning
The Sam Fox School combines the theoretical and practical, creating an environment where architects, landscape architects, and urban designers study alongside artists, curators, and theorists.
Students are supported and challenged throughout by faculty practitioners who are dedicated to teaching while advancing research in sustainability, fabrication, housing, and socially engaged practice.
Our Programs
- Bachelor of Science in Architecture
- Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
- MArch 3 | 6 semesters, 3 years
- MArch 2 | 4 semesters, 2 years
- NAAB-accredited, STEM-designated
Master of Landscape Architecture
- MLA 3 | 6 semesters, 3 years
- MLA 2 | 4 semesters, 2 years
- LAAB-accredited, STEM-designated
We offer eight minors across art, architecture, and design, open to all undergraduate WashU students.
Dual degree masters programs within the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
Joint degree masters programs across WashU
Program publications
Our Research
The foundation of our programs is the breadth and depth of our faculty’s research.
Our faculty provide students with meaningful opportunities to fuel their success. Working at the confluence of environmental and social issues, faculty advance development in our six areas of expertise:
- design practice
- collective housing
- sustainable and equitable environments
- history, theory, and culture
- arts, fabrication, and technology
- socially engaged practice
Sep 27, 2024
Design Agendas: Q&A with Curators Eric P. Mumford and Michael Willis
“Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s” is the first major exhibition to examine the complex connections in St. Louis.
Aug 23, 2024
Fields + Frames
Assistant Professor Kelley Van Dyck Murphy’s temporary public art installation, created with students in spring 2024, on view in innovation district.
Aug 13, 2024
Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s
Kemper Art Museum explores history, contradictions of urban renewal, midcentury modernism
Our Community
Academics and studios are only half of the picture.
The Sam Fox School is a vibrant group of people interested in each other and the world around us. Our students are actively engaged on campus while exploring all that St. Louis has to offer — from major art museums, renowned parks, and National Historic Landmarks, to major league sports and a vibrant restaurant scene.
Bob Peniel Inapanuri answers questions about his research, his experience at the Sam Fox School in the MArch program, and what he loves most about building physical models.
Aaron Williams, AB ‘08, studied not only design and philosophy, but also finance, programming, and business at WashU. He leverages all these skills in his community development work in St. Louis.
Get a glimpse of daily life at the Sam Fox School, meet our students, and see what’s happening on our end of campus.