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