Faculty Research & Publications

Our core faculty have pioneered research in building technology, cultural arts, housing, history, and urban sustainability. Below you can see a small selection of highlights of their recent work, from practice to research to publications. You can also visit individual faculty profile pages to learn more.

Research Spotlights

Infrastructural Optimism

In her new book, Linda C. Samuels argues that optimism is a critical driver of public investment, societal progress, and—perhaps—democracy itself.

Research Spotlights

Architecture, Biology, & "Cellular Transformations"

Sung Ho Kim and Ram Dixit explore connections between natural, built environments in a new publication based on the studio they co-teach.

Research Spotlights

Confronting Urbanization

In her work at the Venice Biennale, Petra Kempf combines copious data and mischievous symbolism to explore how smart phones, online commerce and global connectivity are reshaping the urban terrain.

Research Spotlights

Edges of Privacy: Open Access Walkways in Collective Housing

Eric P. Mumford and Mónica Rivera are Co-PIs on a grant-funded project exploring historic and contemporary built examples of open walkways in housing in Europe and Latin America.

Research Spotlights

Geoscope 2 at Venice Architecture Biennale

Professor of practice Nanako Umemoto is part of the team behind the multimedia installation, which proposes many worlds at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Research Spotlights

On Olive Redevelopment Project

Assistant professor Constance Vale is among the celebrated architects selected to design homes on the north side of Olive Street as part of the On Olive redevelopment project.

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Watershed Moments

Managing 21st-centure waterways will require coordination on a continental scale, argues associate professor Derek Hoeferlin—and a foundational understanding of how water shapes our environment.

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The Charles E. Fleming House

Assistant professor Shantel Blakely and Eric Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, are collaborating on the forthcoming book The Charles E. Fleming House.

Aerial photo of construction work on a new viaduct project in Los Angeles, with the city skyline in the background.

White drawing of plants' cellular structures on a white background.

Large-format diagram of small, floating lilypad clusters interspersed with falling pink umbrellas, arranged in a pattern.

Photo of a covered walkway outside a single-story building; to the left of the walkway are two-level rows of lush plants blooming with red, pink, and white flowers.

Professor of practice Nanako Umemoto is part of the team behind the multimedia installation, which proposes many worlds at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Rendering of the exterior facade of a modular home, with two rectangular wings with rectangular panels framing the entrance. Lush landscaping is in front of the home, with trees to the sides.

Smiling person in lifevest stands on a riverbank with a bridge behind.

Grid of eight overhead projector slides of architectural images with notations marked up on the edges.

In her new book, Linda C. Samuels argues that optimism is a critical driver of public investment, societal progress, and—perhaps—democracy itself.

Sung Ho Kim and Ram Dixit explore connections between natural, built environments in a new publication based on the studio they co-teach.

In her work at the Venice Biennale, Petra Kempf combines copious data and mischievous symbolism to explore how smart phones, online commerce and global connectivity are reshaping the urban terrain.

Eric P. Mumford and Mónica Rivera are Co-PIs on a grant-funded project exploring historic and contemporary built examples of open walkways in housing in Europe and Latin America.

Professor of practice Nanako Umemoto is part of the team behind the multimedia installation, which proposes many worlds at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Assistant professor Constance Vale is among the celebrated architects selected to design homes on the north side of Olive Street as part of the On Olive redevelopment project.

Managing 21st-centure waterways will require coordination on a continental scale, argues associate professor Derek Hoeferlin—and a foundational understanding of how water shapes our environment.

Assistant professor Shantel Blakely and Eric Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture, are collaborating on the forthcoming book The Charles E. Fleming House.

Conceptual rendering of four tall, skinny towers in silver and wood, with pleating and open stepped variation in each.

Sung Ho Kim

Silver Tower. Conceptual design, Chicago, IL.

Open lobby area of Steinberg Hall, with reflections of light on the walls and ceilings, cast by a series of small mirrored surfaces hung along the floor-to-ceiling glass windows and doors on the back wall.

Chandler Ahrens

Catoptric Surface, St. Louis, MO.

Digital rendering of two people walking in front of a 3D printed masonry screen wall, with a honeycomb like pattern with openings.

Kelley Van Dyck Murphy

Sine Screen. Winning entry for the Insite 2020 public art competition, to be completed in 2020 by Van Dyck Murphy Studio.

Group of people wearing cylindrical sound pieces as headwear approaching a pink colored house installation at the Contemporary Art Museum.

Eric Ellingsen

“Toolshed” and Public “Walkshops,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Five story, olive-green biulding with numerous rows of white windows with horizontal blinds.

Mónica Rivera

Social Housing for Young People, Barcelona, Spain, 2007.

Adrian Luchini

Barn and Studio Renovation, Godfrey, IL.

Modular single-family housing units with two levels, rustic wood siding, large windows, and sky lights.

Wyly Brown

Everything Under One Roof!

Aerial photo of five, undulating white architectural models with some red circles and lines.

Derek Hoeferlin

Tracing Our Mississippi, 2021. Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellow installation and public programming.

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Gia Daskalakis

Dressage Arena and Veterinary Residence, Quincy, MI.

A perspective photograph of a brick building along the street with a steel double façade on the upper level, cantilevered over a ramp way.

Bruce Lindsey

Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pennsylvania.

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Faculty Publications

Our faculty are widely published, from book publications to journal articles. A small selection of those titles are featured here.

Black-and-white book cover featuring a photo of tall buildings, with white and orange type stating the title: Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Sicne 1850 by Eric Mumford

Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850

Infrastructural Optimism

Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton

Additional select publications:

Catalina Freixas

Segregation by Design: Conversations and Calls for Action in St. Louis (2019); with co-author Mark Abbott

Patty Heyda

Rebuilding the American City (Routledge, 2016); with co-author D. Gamble

Zeuler Lima

Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings (Princeton University Press, May 2019)

Robert McCarter

Place Matters: The Architecture of WG Clark (ORO, 2019)
Grafton Architects (Phaidon Press, 2018)
The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (Thames & Hudson, 2017)
The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (Reaktion Books, 2016)
Marcel Breuer (Phaidon Press, 2016)

Eric Mumford

Defining urban design: CIAM Architects and the formation of a discipline, 1937-69 (Yale University Press, April 2009)

Jenny Price

Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto (‎W. W. Norton & Company, April 2021)

Constance Vale

Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (Actar, March 2021); with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich.

Faculty Research & Publications

Selection of Faculty Work

Faculty Publications