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