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Master of Landscape Architecture
Dorothée Imbert to chair new Sam Fox School program
Oct. 20,
2009 --
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.
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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.
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A tale of two artists
A Challenge to Democracy explores legacy of Japanese internment camps
Sept. 17,
2009 --
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| 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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After the hurricanes
New Orleans still needs a water plan
Aug. 31,
2009 --
Four years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita led to devastating floods, the city of New Orleans still lacks a comprehensive plan for dealing with water, argues Derek Hoeferlin, a senior lecturer in the College and Graduate School of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Hoeferlin has led a series of Post-hurricane architecture and urban design studios, including most recently Gutter to Gulf, which explores spatial strategies for a potential water plan. He outlined his views in an Aug. 30 commentary for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is available for further discussion of planning and recovery issues.
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Architects and artists to speak
Sam Fox School launches spring Public Lecture Series
Jan. 20,
2009 -- Beverly Fishman, head of the painting department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' spring Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22.
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On the Riverfront:
Exhibition and symposium to explore St. Louis and the Gateway Arch
Jan. 13,
2009 --
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| First Stage Competition entry, 1947 |
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The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial — popularly known as the St. Louis Gateway Arch — is the tallest monument in the United States and an icon of modern architecture, its great steel arc embodying strength, elegance and simplicity. Yet creation of the Arch was anything but simple. This spring the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will explore that complex history with the exhibition and symposium On the Riverfront: St. Louis and The Gateway Arch. Held in conjunction with Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, On the Riverfront will focus on the people, events and conditions that culminated in the 1947-48 competition from which Eero Saarinen's design was chosen, as well as the monument's subsequent construction and its place in American architecture.
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Better connections:
Architecture charrette explores St. Louis Gateway Arch grounds
Dec. 3,
2008 --
The Gateway Arch is an icon of modern architecture and the most-recognized symbol of the City of St. Louis. Yet in many ways the Arch is cut-off from the city proper, sandwiched between the Mississippi Riverfront and a network of converging roadways and interstates. Last month students from five Missouri and Illinois universities gathered to address this challenge as part of the St. Louis Downtown/Riverfront Student Design Charrette.
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Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Major retrospective at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Jan. 30 to April 27, 2009
Nov. 12,
2008 --
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Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was among the most prolific, unorthodox and controversial architects of the 20th century, creator of the monumental St. Louis Gateway Arch as well as sweepingly abstract terminals for New York's John F. Kennedy International and Washington's Dulles International airports. In January the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish American architect.
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Winners announced:
Architectural competition reinvents St. Francis de Sales children's theater
Oct. 24,
2008 --
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A team of six graduate and undergraduate architecture students — led by graduate teaching assistant Ellen Leuenberger and including Denny Burke, Alexander Harner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim — has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' Community Service Competition. The competition, which includes a $300 cash prize, centered on an abandoned 8,000-square-foot children's theater located on the campus of St. Francis de Sales church, 2653 Ohio Ave. (63118), popularly known as "the Cathedral of South St. Louis."
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St. Francis de Sales Oratory
Architectural competition reinvents abandoned children's theater
Oct. 15,
2008 --
St. Francis de Sales church, popularly known as "the Cathedral of South St. Louis," has been a local landmark since the end of the Civil War, listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. This fall five teams of architecture students have worked to create redevelopment plans for an abandoned children's theater, located on the church's six-building campus, as part of the Sam Fox School's Community Service Competition. Winners of the competition will be announced Oct. 17 at a reception in Givens Hall.
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