Jonathan Stitelman

Jonathan Stitelman teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of architecture and urban design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. His research interests involve transportation planning, forced migration and refugee resettlement, urbanism as understood through the lens of cultural anthropology, and visual culture. He holds Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Design degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a Danforth Scholar, and a Bachelor of Arts in art history and psychology from the University of Vermont.

Model of a bird wing with feathers constructed from a semi-translucent white material with wooden ribs.

Bird Wing (model), 2019

Interior of a coffee shop with exposed wooden beams, garage doors along one wall, pine wood tables and bench seating, and a baby blue accent wall.

Blueprint Coffee on Watson, 2018

Exterior photo of a greenhouse-like building with a wooden beam structure encased in sheet plastic. There is an opening at the peak of the roof protected by an overhang.

Drying Casa, 2018

Group of people in a graveled courtyard lined up along a concrete wall.

Feast of Facades, 2016

Dark room with two projections of architectural renderings on one wall.

Infinite Studio Exhibit, 2016

Axon diagram of four display boxes installed in a Metrolink car to display artworks by local artists.

79 on One Line

Select Articles, Chapters, and Publications

“A New Coffee Drying House Typology for Guatemala,” in Proceedings of the AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Material Economies, 2023. Jonathan Stitelman.
“The Building is Enticing and was Licked,” in Il Quaderno, 2020. Jonathan Stitelman. Edited by Franco Pisani. Published by International Studies Institute, Florence, Italy.

Select Exhibitions and Presentations

“The Sweet Perspectives,” co-convened with Nathaniel B. Jones; hosted at Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School, 2024, St. Louis, Mo.
“An Attempt to Exhaust ____,” Jonathan Stitelman; presented at Urban Humanities (Un)Conference 01, 2023, Tucson, Az.
“Decoys & Depictions,” Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, Mo., 2019.
“Ports + Portals,” Arte Spazio Tempo Gallery, Ghetto Nuovo, Venice, Italy, 2018.