Faculty Research
Our core faculty have pioneered research in building technology, cultural arts, housing, history, and urban sustainability. Below you can see a small selection of highlights of their recent work, from practice to research to publications. You can also visit individual faculty profile pages to learn more.
Recent Projects
Featured news
WashU researchers use haptic technology to deliver real-time performance feedback
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“Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s” is the first major exhibition to examine the complex connections in St. Louis.
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Assistant Professor Kelley Van Dyck Murphy’s temporary public art installation, created with students in spring 2024, on view in innovation district.
Research News
Faculty Publications
Our faculty are widely published, from book publications to journal articles. A small selection of those titles are featured here.
Additional select publications:
Catalina Freixas
Segregation by Design: Conversations and Calls for Action in St. Louis (2019); with co-author Mark Abbott
Patty Heyda
Rebuilding the American City (Routledge, 2016); with co-author D. Gamble
Zeuler Lima
Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings (Princeton University Press, May 2019)
Robert McCarter
Place Matters: The Architecture of WG Clark (ORO, 2019)
Grafton Architects (Phaidon Press, 2018)
The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (Thames & Hudson, 2017)
The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (Reaktion Books, 2016)
Marcel Breuer (Phaidon Press, 2016)
Eric Mumford
Defining urban design: CIAM Architects and the formation of a discipline, 1937-69 (Yale University Press, April 2009)
Constance Vale
Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (Actar, March 2021); with Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich.
