In the News: Week of April 26

Catty Dan Zhang (MArch11) was awarded first prize in the Pamphlet Architecture competition. She will receive a $5,500 honorarium and publication in Pamphlet 37 for her proposal Active Atmospheres: On Instruments and Protocols for Medium Hybrids and Architectural Voids, which “explores applied visual techniques that challenge conventional definitions of tools, measurements, and material forms.”

Associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu (area coordinator for fashion design) and student Mackenzie Llewellyn were interviewed Thursday morning between 9 and 10a on KTVI/Channel 2 about the 93rd Annual Fashion Design Show. The event was live streamed on YouTube.

In this article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, senior lecturer Michael Allen weighs in on the Saint Louis Symphony’s planned expansion, which would involve the demolition of a historic house. Allen, who sits on the city board, was one of two commissioners who voted against the symphony’s expansion in a recent meeting.

The Master of Urban Design program recently published the Global Urbanism Studio Dispatch. The newspaper-style publication, edited by senior lecturer Jonathan Stitelman, features student work and essays from faculty and collaborators in the annual Global Urbanism Studio.

Texts and Soundings: The Image Talks Back features seven artists and collectives that probe the ways in which reality is constructed by language and conjured by voice. Featured artists include Jessica Bremehr (MFA-VA21), Ryan Erickson (MFA-VA21), and others. Curated by WashU alum Jenny Wu, the exhibition is on view through May 20.