Architecture

The School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis was founded in 1910, though its origins date back at least eight years earlier, when the Department of Architecture was established as a part of the School of Engineering and Architecture. In 1912, the newly independent division was one of the eight founding members of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA, which today represents some 4,400 faculty at more than 250 schools.

The School of Architecture has been associated with four winners of the Pritzker Prize, generally considered profession's highest honor, equivalent to the Nobel. Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, a faculty member from 1956-1963 and architect of the planned Sam Fox Arts Center, received the award in 1993. Hans Hollein of Vienna, who taught here in 1963-64, won in 1985. The 1986 laureate, Gottfried Boehm of Cologne, Germany, was a visiting professor in 1998. Glenn Murcutt of Australia won the prize in 2002, during his tenure as Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture.

Faculty Experts:

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Peter MacKeith Peter MacKeith Download MacKeith is associate dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and associate professor of architecture. He is author of The Dissolving Corporation: Contemporary Architecture and Corporate Identity in Finland (2005) and The Finland Pavilions: Finland at the Universal Expositions 1900-1992 ... Expertise: architectural design, architectural theory Direct contact: (314) 935-7215 / mackeith@wustl.edu

Paul Donnelly Rebecca & John Voyles Professor of Architecture Paul Donnelly Download Donnelly is an internationally recognized architect known for buildings that fuse cutting-edge technology with imaginative designs. He is both an architect and a registered professional engineer. Throughout his academic career, Donnelly has maintained his professional practices, as a principal in Paul ... Expertise: architecture and engineering, structural engineering, building technology, membrane technology, air structures, robotics, technology transfer, … Direct contact: (314) 935-6262 / donnelly@wustl.edu

Adrian Luchini Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture Adrian Luchini Download Luchini is an internationally recognized architect who has practiced in Argentina and the US. He is recipient of numerous AIA awards, was named on the "Young Architects" list by Progressive Architecture in 1990, and received the "Emerging Voices" citation by the Architecture League of New York in ... Expertise: architectural design, architectural theory, architectural practice, international architecture, Direct contact: (314) 935-6251 / luchini@wustl.edu

Eric Mumford Mumford Download Mumford, a licensed architect, teaches history/theory courses, including the required modern architectural history survey course, publishes peer-reviewed scholarly and lectures widely outside of the Sam Fox School. He is the author of The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (MIT Press, 2000), the ... Expertise: Modern architecture and urban design Direct contact: (314) 935-6282 / EPM@architecture.wustl.edu

John Hoal Associate Professor of Architecture David Kilper John Hoal Download Hoal is a former director of urban design for the City of St. Louis and founding principal of the design and planning firm H3 Studio Inc. He has practiced architecture, urban design and community based planning in both the public and private sectors in the United States and South Africa; has lectured ... Expertise: greenspace, urban design, urbanism, park, Confluence Greenway, Forest Park Direct contact: (314) 935-6226 / hoal@architecture.wustl.edu

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Master of Landscape Architecture Dorothée Imbert to chair new Sam Fox School program Oct. 20, 2009 -- Dorothée Imbert Download The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will launch a new Master of Landscape Architecture program in Fall 2010, announced Bruce Lindsey, dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. The program, which will offer both two- and three-year options leading to a professional MLA degree, will be led by Dorothée Imbert, a noted scholar as well as a practicing landscape architect, who is currently associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design Her appointment in the Sam Fox School will be effective Jan. 1, 2010.

Achieving a very small carbon footprint Chase and Hellmuth discuss the trials and tribulations of building one of the greenest structures in North America Sept. 17, 2009 -- The new Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center was designed to be one of the greenest buildings in North America. Jonathan Chase, associate professor of biology in the Department of Biology and Environmental Studies in Arts & Sciences and Tyson's director; and Daniel Hellmuth, principal and co-founder of Hellmuth & Bicknese Architects, L.L.C., will deliver a talk about the Center and its challenges for the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 24 in Wilson Hall Room 214. The program is free and open to the public.

A tale of two artists A Challenge to Democracy explores legacy of Japanese internment camps Sept. 17, 2009 -- Ansel Adams, Smiling Girl (Oriental Type), 1943 In the 1930s, the photographer Ansel Adams struck up a friendship with California painter Chiura Obata. Yet the arrival of World War II would set these two celebrated artists on radically divergent paths — paths that would, in very different ways, lead both to the now-infamous "war relocation centers" at which the U.S. government forcibly interred approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans. Next month their sons, Michael Adams and Gyo Obata, will explore the impact of internment on their respective families in a public dialog at Washington University.

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Hopes for a Renaissance After Exodus in St. Louis The New York Times and 3 others April 17, 2007 -- Article looks at St. Louis' effort to rebuild its image in the face of population loss and public school accreditation problems. WUSTL architecture professor John Hoal, who has been involved in numerous municipal planning projects, comments on the redevelopment effort.

Distinguished visitors over the years have ranged from Dutch Team 10 members Jacob Bakema and Also van Eyck to Buckminster Fuller, Shadrach Woods of Paris, Stanley Tigerman of Chicago, Reili Pietala and Juhani Pallasmaa of Finland and Indian architects Balkrishna Doshi and Charles Correa.

In recent years, Architecture has joined with the School of Art, Gallery of Art, Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences and Art & Architecture Library as part of the new Sam Fox Arts Center, a campus-wide umbrella organization for the study and promotion of visual culture. Plans call for the development of collaborative, interdisciplinary curricula and programs as well as the creation of new facilities designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki.

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Designs unveiled
$56.8 million center for the visual arts and design to be named in honor of St. Louis civic and philanthropic leader Sam Fox
Dec. 17, 2002 - Washington University in St. Louis will name a new $56.8 million campus center for the visual arts and design in honor of Sam Fox, one of St. Louis' most prominent civic and philanthropic leaders and one of the University's staunchest supporters, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has announced. The Sam Fox Arts Center links three academic units -- the School of Architecture, the School of Art and the Department of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences -- with the University's nationally recognized Gallery of Art and Art & Architecture Library. It's facilities will include two new buildings designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki -- an art museum and a second building for the School of Art -- that will be integrated, also according to Maki's design, with three renovated structures. This integration will produce new opportunities for research, interdisciplinary study and teaching in visual arts and design.