Sam Fox School, AIA St. Louis Announce Steedman Fellowship Theme
100th anniversary competition celebrates legacy of Fumihiko Maki; award raised to $100k How can architecture gather a collective in an increasingly pluralistic society? How do rapidly changing technologies and methods of communication, as well as the growing heterogeneity of institutions, affect how people assemble? In… Read More
Adare Brown wins Steedman Fellowship in Architecture
Brown’s winning project, “Counter Planning from St. Louis,” will research the efforts of the Pruitt-Igoe Tenants Union, the Tandy Area Council and Teamsters Local 688 to protect and expand social housing. (Photo: Adare Brown’s scan from Bob Bussel’s “Fighting for Total Person Unionism”) Brooklyn, N.Y.-based… Read More
An Update from the Field: Arijit
Oasification of the desert: The Agrobelt around Khiva leads to Nukus-the mouth of the Amu Darya. Sandwiched between two deserts in the steppes the river water is diverted to irrigate deserts for agriculture; a glimpse of Stalinst legacy -a geophysical force. (Image… Read More
2023 Theme and Jury Announcement
Architecture shelters and protects. Yet too often, the built environment also perpetuates entrenched biases as well as a domineering and extractive view of the natural world. But what if architecture were rooted in a more holistic ethos? What if architecture tended not only to the… Read More
Announcing the 2021-22 Steedman Fellow Arijit Chatterjee
A rendering for the Villanueva Boat Builder’s Refuge and Boatshed (2014-15) in Patagonia, Chile, by Arijit Chatterjee, winner of the 2021 Steedman Fellowship. (Image courtesy of Arijit Chatterjee) Arijit Chatterjee, an architect based in Ahmedabad, India, has been selected as winner of the… Read More
2021 Theme “Disruption” and Jury Announced
Climate change, COVID-19, the fight for social justice. In disruptive times, how can architecture help to chart new paths and implement far-reaching solutions? That’s the question posed by “Disruption,” the 2021 James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture. Read More
Unearthing the Heralding Story of a Former Steedman Fellowship Winner … from 1939!
Miranda Rectenwald, a curator of local history at Washington University, discovered the amazing tale of Victor Gilbertson who was awarded the Steedman Fellowship in 1939 and traveled around Europe during the early years of World War II. She recently recalled her 2013 article in… Read More
Announcing the 2018-19 Steedman Fellow Lily Zhang
Planometric and sectional views of shared storage spaces, from “Collective Clutter,” which proposes new spatial and socially engaged models of storage. (Image: Courtesy of Lily Zhang) If architecture is in a relationship, posits Lily Zhang, then storage is its selfless soul mate:… Read More
An update from the field by 2016 Fellow Pedro Pitarch: This Greenfield is My Home
Pedro Pitarch, “This Greenfield is My Home.” Image: Pedro Pitarch. 2016 Steedman Fellow Pedro Pitarch shares a drawing from his research project Disguised Metropolitanisms: Unveiling the Masquerade… Read More
2018 Theme and Jury Announced
How does infrastructure shape our individual and collective environments? That’s the question posed by the 2018 James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture. The biennial research competition challenges early-career architects to investigate the fundamental systems, facilities and services that enable, sustain and enhance societal living conditions. Read More