News

Featured news

Architect Francis Kéré to speak April 1

Francis Kéré’s buildings are at once humble and revolutionary — poetic, light-filled structures internationally celebrated for engaging regional craft traditions and indigenous, eco-friendly materials

Featured news

Derek Hoeferlin Releases Book on Three Major Watersheds Panel and Workshop at Pulitzer Arts Foundation April 3

Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor and chair of landscape architecture & urban design, released his book “Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture” this month.

Featured news

The air that inhabits: 2023 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition to open April 8

Eleven MFA in Visual Art candidates from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will show their work at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Featured news

Olivia Baba, BFA '23, and Connor Seger, BFA '23, win Fashion Scholarship Fund honors

Baba is one of four finalists for the $25,000 Chairman’s Prize to be awarded April 3.

The Lycée Schorge Secondary School in Koudougou, Burkina Faso

Satellite view of earth highlighting the Mississippi River

Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor and chair of landscape architecture & urban design, released his book “Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture” this month.

Eleven MFA in Visual Art candidates from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will show their work at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Baba is one of four finalists for the $25,000 Chairman’s Prize to be awarded April 3.

Subscribe to the Sam Fox School's e-news

Submit an update

News Archive

Sam Fox School students work on building the bamboo pavilion for Peace Park.

Dec 29, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Weaving Together the Vision for Peace Park

Nov 22, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

College of Architecture faculty awarded 2022 Faculty Collaborative Grants

Nov 7, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Occupational therapy clinic breaks ground in Delmar Maker District

On a bright green background, three mobile phone screens demonstrate an augmented reality app. The screens show ancient artifacts overlayed with text that addresses the object's complicated origin and acquisition story.

Jul 12, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Unseen Histories (and Uncomfortable Truths)

A disorienting view of small sunflowers, almost abstractly encircling a rusty sign that reads Danger: Work Zone.

Jul 12, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Nature Persists

A scene from a protest showing fists, raised in the air, shaking "protest rattles," upon which are printed words like "Choice" and No."

Jul 1, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Art & Activism

A teenage girl models a pale pink gown on the runway at a fashion design show. She holds a doll wearing a matching dress. Crowds of onlookers smile and applaud.

Jun 28, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Project Runway

Side-by-side headshots of Abraham Diaz and Bob Peniel Inapanuri

Jun 13, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

2022 Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellows Announced

Aerial of a skinny strip of parkland across a bridge, next to a roadway. Another bridge is visible further in the background, with a vast expanse of water and the city skyline in the distance.

Apr 25, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Sam Fox School, Pulitzer Arts Foundation Name Voraakhom Designer-in-Residence

An illustration of a figure hugging a city with a visible St Louis arch

Apr 16, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

How do you engage the community?

Outdoor photo in the St. Louis area, looking at an overpass to the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge

Mar 21, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Colten & Peemoeller Awarded $150,000 Mellon Foundation Grant

Jan 31, 2022 • Socially Engaged Practice

Staff Announcement: Matthew Bernstine

A group of people stand in a grass field and on a sidewalk. Behind them is a street.

Dec 14, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Fall 2021 CityStudioSTL Faculty Course Grants Announced

Screenshot of 4 Zoom participants, all smiling and one including a thumbs up.

Dec 2, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Actively designing with St. Louis community input

Nov 8, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

You Are Here: Engaging St. Louis’ Racial History Through Site and Story

A collage of three pictures with drawings over them. The first picture shows an aerial view of streets and land, labeled with the words "Take Your Brick". The middle image shows a tall white column in a blue sky with the words "Colored lights" and colored lines drawn to the ground. The third image shows a picture of a brick path through a grass area with drawn walls, grass, and poles with colors.

Oct 12, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Community Design Sprints partnership brings visibility and enthusiasm to Peace Park

Screenshot showing a mock up with pie charts with numbers indicating level of understanding.

Sep 16, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Interaction Design: Understanding Health & Well-Being

A picture of the inside of a zine, showing words in black text with white background, highlighted by orange, pink, and yellow.

Aug 11, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

An Introduction to Engaging Community

Collage of images from computer screens showing Alberti participants with their clay figures, postcards, and cardboard and stick models. Image 2: A screenshot of a Zoom room during the review and celebration. A mixture of 16 adults and youth are pictured, including one youth with a stick model with tape in the foreground of the image.

Aug 2, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Alberti Virtual Studio creates spaces for play

A group of three people wearing masks stands between desks, holding models made of wood and paper.

Aug 1, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Creating Playful Spaces

A drawing visualizes different connections, with lines radiating out from a center picture showing a colorful bus. The lines go to four areas, labeled Awareness, Affordability, Action, and Accessibility. Along the lines are labels for associate resources.

Jul 21, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Design in Social Systems

Gray map on a dark background showing relevant police locations across the city of St. Louis.

Jul 19, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Alternative Atlas

Fabric swatches and small dresses laid out on a table.

Jul 16, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Spring 2021 CityStudioSTL Student Awards

People stand next to different colored and patterned triangular tents. The tents and people are arranged in a ring on a grass field, surrounded by plazas and buildings. The people are wearing masks.

Jul 11, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Show Me Shelter Installation

A drawing showing people on a gravel path (on foot and on bike) next to a natural area with a large green building to the left.

Jul 6, 2021 • Socially Engaged Practice

Public Space & Ecological Knowledge