Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts to Host ACSA Annual Meeting
2023-03-03 • Caitlin Custer
WashU’s Sam Fox School will be the host school and conference partner for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 111th Annual Meeting in downtown St. Louis March 30–April 1, 2023. The professional organization is dedicated to leading education and research in the field of architecture, as well as preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. Their membership includes all accredited professional architecture degree programs in the US and Canada, representing 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students.
WashU’s Petra Kempf, assistant professor of architecture, has served on the steering committee for this year’s conference. “We are thrilled to partner with the ACSA for their annual meeting, IN COMMONS, here in St. Louis, said Kempf. “The theme of the conference couldn’t be timelier, as the design fields are at an exhilarating crossroads pertaining to the changing perception and reimagination of the cultural, political, economic, and environmental landscape unfolding right in front of us.”
Several WashU faculty are involved in the conference, giving presentations, participating in panel discussions, and offering tours of community organizations and the Mississippi River watershed. Senior Lecturer Michael Allen, whose scholarly work seeks to reveal the ways in which the built environment encodes hegemonic and oppositional power relationships, economic histories, and granular imposition of statecraft, will take part in the opening keynote.
Celebrated architect Francis Kéré, the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, will be honored with the ACSA’s Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society’s Gold Medal. The organization recognizes Kéré’s pioneering approach to design and sustainability, his utopian and pragmatic vision, and his personal commitment to serve the community he grew up in and a belief in the transformative potential of beauty. Kéré will give a closing keynote April 1, which is also part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series.
To attend the conference and join us in St. Louis, please register at www.acsa-arch.org.
A complete list of presentations and activities including Sam Fox School faculty is below.
Tours
Gavin Kroeber, Lecturer
Jonathan Stitelman, Senior Lecturer
Presentations & Panels
Bruce Lindsey, E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration
Matthew Bernstine, Associate Director, Sam Fox School Office for Socially Engaged Practice
Jess Vanecek, Lecturer
with current Sam Fox School students Sebastian Bernal, Kaden Chaudary, Wenqi Lai, Annika Pan, Amanda Ridings, and Haixin Zhou