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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

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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.

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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.

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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

The Lycée Schorge Secondary School in Koudougou, Burkina Faso

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

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.

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Mar 20, 2023 • Events

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

Burkina institute of technology photo courtesy of francis kéré

Jan 13, 2023 • Events

Sam Fox School spring Public Lecture Series begins Jan. 19

Portrait of Diane von Furstenberg

Oct 10, 2022 • Events

‘Speaking of Fashion: A Conversation with Diane von Furstenberg’

A multi-part installation with a full-wall mural portrays a joyful party scene. The installation comprises framed portraits of Black individuals in vibrant, patterned garments; balloons and colorful bunting (real and painted); and, in the foreground, a white picnic table with blue, orange, and purple party hats. The paintings are executed in a graphic style, with segmented of color blocks reminiscent of stained glass.

Aug 26, 2022 • Events

Fall 2022 Public Lecture Series Announced

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 • Events

Project Runway

A young woman with a walker modeling a fairytale green and gold dress pauses on a fashion design show runway and smiles to an applauding audience.

May 12, 2022 • Events

Fashion Design Show Debuts Adapative Formalwear

A group of students and faculty is gathered in an open studio space, looking at something on a student's computer screen. In the foreground of the photos are two computer screens, each with an architectural rendering.

Mar 16, 2022 • Events

2022 Fitzgibbon Charrette

A young man standing beneath a mirror ball

Mar 15, 2022 • Events

Nicole Miller: A Sound, a Signal, the Circus

Photo of a person with their back to the camera, looking at a large timeline hung on a wall; the timeline is dark gray with white dates and text and some images.

Feb 28, 2022 • Events

2022 Day of Dialogue and Action Features WashU Leaders, Sessions

Two students stand around another one, helping arrange a wire-like dome structure around the middle student's head.

Feb 18, 2022 • Events

2022 Laskey Charrette

At left, a hand-drawn architectural sketch of a residential building plan. At right, a conceptual architectural collage featuring a woman walking away across a concrete path bordered by green grass on one side an a blue reflecting pool on the other.

Jan 26, 2022 • Events

Spring 2022 Public Lecture Series

Two people in full PPE/welding masks using a torch for bronze casting.

Jan 24, 2022 • Events

Spring 2022 Fox Fridays Workshops

Comic book panel of a woman lying in bed dreaming, with multiple thought bubbles appearing.

Jan 7, 2022 • Events

Chitra Ganesh: Dreaming in Multiverse

Rendering showing a portion of what had been an interstate replaced with greenspace, restored wetlands, and public transit.

Dec 8, 2021 • Events

Superstudio Spotlight Webinar

Dec 7, 2021 • Events

In the News: Week of December 6

A man dressed in a full suit is kneeling in an outdoor area thick with brush, sticks, and green plants. The person's head is bowed somewhat, eyes closed, hand cupped with fingertips touching one another.

Nov 4, 2021 • Events

Sheldon Scott’s "Portrait, number 1 man" at Kemper Art Museum

Person in a dimly lit room, standing with their back to the camera, hands on their head and wearing headphones. Candles are lit on pedestals to the left and right.

Nov 3, 2021 • Events

Braden Named Inaugural Media Artist in Residence

Black poster with a few swirly white lines, dashes, and small boxes, with bubble letters witht he title Confront-(ing) Urbanization Prologue

Nov 1, 2021 • Events

In the News: Week of November 1

Rendering of a public space, featuring three large rounded, tiered seating structures around an open space, leading to a pedestrian path with buildings and some green space.

Oct 29, 2021 • Events

Sam Fox School Students Win National Organization of Minority Architects Competition

Collage/painting on a square canvas: a person with a pink headscarf gathers berries, a basket in their left hand. There are typographic textures overlaid on the scarf and shirt; on the former, what appears to be a receipt; on the latter, an American flag with the text, "MADE IN U.S.A.".

Oct 27, 2021 • Events

AXA Art Prize Exhibition

Pair of portraits, featuring Yvonne Osei on the left, partially obscured by a colorful artwork, and Jon Young on the right, standing in front of a purple, wall-mounted sculpture with a green scorpion.

Oct 20, 2021 • Events

10th Great Rivers Biennial Arts Award Program

Colourful mural painting featuring a young girl gazing towards blue skies. Surrounding her are flowers, a papel picado, African baskets and orange monarchs

Oct 19, 2021 • Events

In the News: Week of October 18

Two people inspect a platform built to hold a white topographic landscape model.

Oct 11, 2021 • Events

In the News: Week of October 11

Pop-up space, showing two faces of the structure, which is framed in black with arched, backlit windows showing clothing inside. The space is set up inside a red-brick building, to the left of a skinny fireplace and larged, paned window.

Sep 20, 2021 • Events

In the News: Week of September 20

Drawing of a seated woman with white circles around her head, leading behind her to a skeletal figure

Sep 9, 2021 • Events

Fall 2021 Public Lecture Series