Four Faculty Join the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
2024-09-06 • Sam Fox School
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The Sam Fox School welcomes four new architecture faculty to campus this semester: Jose Ahedo, Michelle L. Hauk, Jonathan Louie, and Nicole McIntosh. Aki Ishida also began her role July 1 as Director of the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design and the Sam and Marilyn Fox Professor.
Jose Ahedo joins the school as the Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor. He will teach a graduate studio that explores mixed-use experiments in food-productive landscapes. Ahedo has a variety of projects to his name, including a 13-building dairy complex in the Pyrenees. His research and practice explore challenges in farming communities, looking for actionable design solutions. Ahedo will also deliver a free public lecture Sept. 16 at 5:30 p.m. in Steinberg Auditorium.
Michelle L. Hauk, MArch/MSAS ’15, begins her role as assistant professor of architecture, history, and theory this fall. Appointed last year, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University before returning to St. Louis. Hauk will teach a research seminar on women in architecture as well as a workshop course on Japanese dwellings. Students in both courses will present their final projects in an exhibition.
Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh, founders of the Zurich-based firm Architecture Office, come to the school as visiting assistant professors. They led the 2024 Laskey Charrette, a design challenge on the idea of pictures as the context. Beginning with a photo of a room, students first built a diorama of the photo. Once complete, they photographed the diorama. McIntosh and Louie suggested displaying the three parts of the work side-by-side, so that “the more you look, the more you see… they are models for observing and studying new ways of seeing the room.”
More information on architecture faculty research is available here.