Students presented their work with 4theVille on the organization’s ongoing cultural boulevard plan to community guests and critics at Sumner High School.
Sr. lecturer Michael Allen’s course delves into the history of American urban planning. Students presented their work at midterm reviews through staged debates, mini performances, and games.
Sr. lecturer Ian Trivers and MUD students visited Alton, Ill., the site of a proposed flood wall development project. Students met community members and investigated alternate ecological solutions.
MLA students pulled soil core samples from a site in south St. Louis and ran analysis on them under the guidance of asst. prof. Seth Denizen and researcher Dr. Christina Siebe.
39 Sam Fox School undergrad architecture students took part in the annual Laskey Charrette design competition in February. Teams fabricated a photo of a room into a diorama.
The Sam Fox School’s career office hosted an architecture / landscape architecture / urban design career fair where students had the opportunity to mingle with top architecture firms.
2024-02-09–The annual cross-disciplinary art show “Parabola” opened at the Des Lee Gallery on Feb. 9. The show features a juried selection of work from artists across all graduate programs at WasU.
Comics critic, educator, curator, and editor Bill Kartalopoulos met MFA-IVC students and delivered a public lecture on the history and cultural relevance of comics to kick off the spring semester.
Fall final reviews are in the books! It was a joy to see and share all of the work our graduate architecture students have done this semester. Congratulations!
Graduate architecture students in the fall 2023 419 Housing Studio worked on housing projects in New Orleans, Halifax, San Juan, and Barcelona.
Freund Fellow Crystal Z Campbell’s class took a private tour of the Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation with exhibition curator Michael Allen.
“Make Art/Work” opened at the Des Lee Gallery on November 10. The exhibition highlights the diverse creative practices that our staff explore outside of work at the Sam Fox School.
The Distinguished Faculty Award recognizes outstanding commitment to the intellectual and personal development of students. Watch his video profile.
Charles Johnson—award-winning writer, philosopher, educator, and cartoonist—gave the conference’s keynote address on damaging racial stereotypes in comics and historical Black cartoonists.
Master of Urban Design students worked with guests James Rojas (Place It!) and John Kamp (Prairieform) at the annual Informal Cities workshop, opening with a walking tour of STL’s Cherokee St.
Artist William Villalongo and data scientist Shraddha Ramani visited Island Press to conduct local research and work with students on a portfolio of new prints for their ongoing project.
Ezra Kong, BS ’16, is a community-based facilitator and practitioner, and head of the Design Futures Forum. They led a discussion and workshop on design and social justice for students on Oct. 20.
Illustrator Sam Kalda visited campus and conducted one-on-one reviews with MFA-IVC students during midterms.
First-year architecture students took a guided trip to the Missouri Botanical Garden to study how architecture intersects with environment at the St. Louis institution.
David Samuel Stern, MFA ‘06, conducted studio reviews with MFA-VA students during his trip to campus to mark the unveiling of his Weil Project Wall piece, Unknown (American), 2023.
Artist Marie Lorenz—whose work is rooted in the exploration of narrative of New York City’s waterfronts—visited campus to deliver a lecture and conduct studio visits with MFA-VA students.
2023-09-14 – MFA-VA 2nd year students exhibited summer project work at the Des Lee Gallery, September 14–October 13, 2023.
Graduate landscape architecture students transformed a parking space on Delmar Blvd into a pop-up pollinator garden as part of ASLA’s national Park(ing) Day event.
Students and faculty gathered outdoors on Jordan Plaza to celebrate the start of another academic year with yard games, t-shirts, and ice cream sandwiches.