Public Lecture Series

Each semester, the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series brings nationally and internationally recognized architects, artists, designers, historians, and critics to campus for an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary issues and challenges, from climate change and sustainable design to the importance of local communities.

Upcoming Lectures

an urban park like scene with a billboard that reads, "How much of belief is encounter?"

Nov 3 at 11:30am • Kuehner Court, Weil Hall

Chloë Bass: Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow Lecture

Headshots of Ana María León and Eric P. Mumford alongside a photo of a book cover with a faded orange colored background overlaid with an architectural map of Buenos Aires. Black-and-white photographs of buildings and city views are arranged across the cover, with the title “BUENOS AIRES” in large block letters at the top and bottom.

Nov 5 at 5pm • Kemper Art Museum

A Modern Buenos Aires: Architecture and Photomontage under Peronism

Nov 11 at 5:30pm • Kemper Art Museum

Roots and Rhizomes: Relational Networks in the Art of Carolina Caycedo

Parking and Directions

Free parking is available in the East End Garage beginning at 5:00 p.m. Enter the garage from Forsyth Boulevard or Forest Park Parkway.

Click here for maps and directions

Past Lectures

Check out some of our recent Public Lecture Series events. If a recording of the lecture is publicly available, you can find it by clicking through to the event page.

Visit the Sam Fox School YouTube channel for archived recordings.

rendering of "Barrel Hall"

October 26, 2026 at 11:30am • Kuehner Court, Weil Hall

Jai Kumaran: Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture

satellite in space with earth below

October 15, 2026 at 11:30am • Kuehner Court, Weil Hall

Wafaa Bilal: Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture

a single black hat surrounded by leaves in sepia tone

October 12, 2026 at 4:30pm • Steinberg Auditorium

Stas Orlovski: Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist Lecture

October 12, 2026 at 11:30am • Kuehner Court, Weil Hall

M. Christine Boyer: Coral Courts Lecture

two architecture models

September 23, 2026 at 11:30am • Kuehner Court, Weil Hall

Lawrence Blough: Eugene J. Mackey Jr. Lecture

Headshots of panelists Dana Ostrander and Megan A. Sullivan.

September 9, 2026 at 5:30pm • Steinberg Auditorium

Panel Conversation: Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950

View past recordings on YouTube

Featured news

Sam Fox School fall Public Lecture Series begins Aug. 31

Speakers include architect Jing Liu, artist Wafaa Bilal and art historians Natalia Brizuela and Megan A. Sullivan

Featured news

Sam Fox School spring Public Lecture Series begins Jan. 30

Speakers include architectural historian Mary McLeod, photographer Wang Qingsong, and visual artist Clarissa Tossin

Featured news

Sam Fox School fall Public Lecture Series begins Sept. 10

Speakers include Aaron Betsky, Mark Dion, and Komal Shah

Featured news

Sam Fox School spring Public Lecture Series begins Jan. 24

Speakers include illustrator Carson Ellis, sculptor Beatriz Cortez and architect Rahul Mehrotra

Site Verrier in Meisenthal, France

Broken Spectre by Richard Mosse

At right is a portrait of artist Tomashi Jackson by Dan Watkins. At left is “Blessed Be the Rock (1920s Dearfield Group, 1970s Ruth Flowers in The Little Rectangle, & the 1972 Second Baptist Church Choir),” 2023.

Site Verrier in Meisenthal, France

Speakers include architect Jing Liu, artist Wafaa Bilal and art historians Natalia Brizuela and Megan A. Sullivan

Broken Spectre by Richard Mosse

Speakers include architectural historian Mary McLeod, photographer Wang Qingsong, and visual artist Clarissa Tossin

At right is a portrait of artist Tomashi Jackson by Dan Watkins. At left is “Blessed Be the Rock (1920s Dearfield Group, 1970s Ruth Flowers in The Little Rectangle, & the 1972 Second Baptist Church Choir),” 2023.

Speakers include Aaron Betsky, Mark Dion, and Komal Shah

Speakers include illustrator Carson Ellis, sculptor Beatriz Cortez and architect Rahul Mehrotra