Study Architecture 
ProPEL March 30-April 1, 2023 | St. Louis, MO
111th Annual Meeting
IN COMMONS
February 15, 2023
12:30–2:00PM EST / 9:30-11:00AM PST
This session will focus on the challenges and critiques of the commons in different design practices, exploring their social, cultural, and ecological ramifications. The panel will debate on material conditions and their transformations in four areas of design: social, cultural, ecological, and transdisciplinary practices
Online Webinar
Date: February 15, 2023
Time: 12:30–2:00PM EST / 9:30-11:00AM PST
Free to Register and Attend
RACISM UNTAUGHT WORKSHOP
$50 Workshop & Lunch | 5 HSW Credit
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Racism Untaught is focused on cultivating learning environments for people to further explore issues of race and racism, from the obvious to the invisible. The workshop is a toolkit that will use the design research process to assist participants in identifying racialized design and critically assess anti-racist design approaches. The toolkit is meant for educators and students interested in uncovering design that perpetuates elements of racism and creating artifacts, systems, and/or experiences that help solve elements of racism. The workshop is an opportunity for educators to foster conversations and learning environments focused on diversity, inclusion, and equity to ensure new ideas, critical thinking, and diverse forms of making.
What: Workshop & Lunch + Earn 5 HSW (Health, Safety & Welfare) Credits
When: Thursday, March 30, 2023 @ 9:00am – 2:00pm
Where: Hyatt Regency at the Arch, St. Louis
You may purchase tickets, for yourself and guest(s), along with your conference registration to the ACSA111 Annual Meeting.
4theVille / Northside Tour
$30 Tour & Workshop
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Cultural Preservation as a tool for Community Development: Walking Tour and Design Workshop with 4theVille Leadership
This tour/workshop invites participants to experience The Ville, a historic African-American neighborhood in St. Louis where local efforts are contributing to community development rooted in cultural preservation and community ownership. Led by 4theVille’s Aaron Williams and resident leader Julia Allen, walking tour will highlight local landmarks and opportunities to leverage cultural assets for neighborhood development with leadership from 4theVille and Northside Community Housing. Following the tour, participants will join a discussion and design workshop focused on plans for a heritage walk and mixed-use building renovation at the forefront of local preservation and community development efforts.
What: Northside Tour
When: Thursday, March 30, 2023 @ 9:00am – 1:00pm
Where: St. Louis, Northside Neighborhood
You may purchase tickets, for yourself and guest(s), along with your conference registration to the ACSA111 Annual Meeting.
Awards Banquet & Emerging Faculty Fundraiser
$200 DRINKS, DINNER & MERRIMENT
Friday, March 31, 2023
We invite you to join us to toast to the 2023 Architecture Education Award Winners and celebrate all our achievements. This year we are holding a celebration event & dinner, open to all, to raise funds to support emerging faculty. This event is hosted by the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors (DPACSA), which was founded in 2010 to identify and disseminate best practices in teaching and support the career development of new faculty. Proceeds from the dinner will be used to support faculty travel to attend the ACSA Annual Meetings.
What: 2023 Architecture Education Awards Reception & Emerging Faculty Fundraiser
When: Friday, March 31, 2023 @ 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Where: Gateway Arch
Dress: Smart Casual
You may purchase tickets, for yourself and guest(s), along with your conference registration to the ACSA111 Annual Meeting.
Ben Hur Steel Worx Tour
$15 Tour with Lunch
Friday, March 31, 2023
Would you like to see behind the scenes of structural steel fabrication? Ben Hur Construction and Steel Worx, LLC, now merged with Stupp Bros, Inc., is offering a tour of their facility where they fabricate steel framing for large building and bridge projects, including the new Pedestrian Link Bridge at Washington University. The company dates from 1909 and is one of the original steel producers in the US. At the 350,000 SF facility, you will see how structural steel is cut to length, welded, and prepared for connections and finishing before it is shipped to the construction site. There is equipment that descales steel for use as architecturally exposed structural steel in buildings, as well as state-of-the-art CNC equipment, including robotic plasma cutting technology that fabricates a wide variety of structural sections. You will see how Ben Hur barcodes and tracks each steel piece as it moves through the shop to provide seamless tracking of all material. Sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).
What: Ben Hur Steel Worx Tour
When: Friday, March 31, 2023 @ 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Where: Ben Hur Steel Worx
Please dress for the weather on the tour, as the space is not climate controlled, and wear closed-toe shoes and long pants. Hard hats and safety glasses will be provided for the tour, as will transportation and lunch. You may purchase tickets, for yourself and guest(s), along with your conference registration to the ACSA111 Annual Meeting.
Laboratory for Suburbia Tour
$30 Tour & Workshop
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Laboratory for Suburbia: A Rolling Thinktank
St. Louis is a paradigmatic example of 21st-century America’s precarious, contested suburbs. Unlike the Sunbelt boomtowns that defined 20th-century suburban discourse, Metro St. Louis sprawls not because of explosive regional growth but despite the lack of it. Suburban St. Louis is an electoral transitional zone between blue city and red state and the site of the Ferguson uprising, an event that destabilized the American suburban imaginary. Led by Patty Heyda and Gavin Kroeber, Sam Fox faculty and organizers of the Laboratory for Suburbia platform, this tour will traverse the region’s suburbanized landscapes of power, generating critical discussion as we go.
What: Laboratory for Suburbia: Tour & Workshop
When: Saturday, April 1, 2023 @ 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Metro St. Louis
This is a concurrent event taking place the afternoon of Saturday, April 1st with pick-up at the Hyatt Regency and drop-off at Washington University in St. Louis for the closing keynote & reception. You may purchase tickets, for yourself and guest(s), along with your conference registration to the ACSA111 Annual Meeting.
Great Rivers Adventure Tour
$150 Tour, Lunch & Outdoors
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Mississippi as Watershed Commons
St. Louis is a river city that has ironically turned its back to the water, a place where continental watersheds converge yet glimpses of the shoreline are confoundingly rare. This tour will explore the Mississippi River by bus and canoe, via land and water, from both the Missouri and Illinois sides. We will pivot from the city’s inland landmarks to an alternative civic cartography of watershed architectures and more-than-human edgelands—a “latent commons” that is close-by yet just outside the quotidian urban sensorium. Paddling downriver from the Chain of Rocks Bridge to the Gateway Arch with Big Muddy Adventures, a trusted river outfitter, we will navigate the city’s internal fringes and open up generative questions for architectural practice.
Tour led by Derek Hoeferlin, Gavin Kroeber and Jonathan Stitelman
What: Great Rivers Adventure Tour
When: Sunday, April 2, 2023 @ 9:00am – 4:00pm
Where: Greater St. Louis Area
The tour will include a bus and canoe on the Mississippi River with a stop for lunch (transportation, lunch & refreshments). You may purchase tickets, for yourself and guest(s), along with your conference registration to the ACSA111 Annual Meeting.
Opening Reception
INCLUDED WITH YOUR FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Thursday, March 30, 2023
All conference registrants are invited to join to the Opening Reception.
What: Opening Reception
When: Thursday, March 30, 2023 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Where: Exhibits & Park View Ballroom, 4th floor of the Hyatt Regency
Closing Reception
INCLUDED WITH YOUR FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Saturday, April 1, 2023
All conference registrants are invited to join to the Closing Reception at the Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
What: Closing Reception
When: Saturday, April 1, 2023 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Where: Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Michelle Sturges
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis
Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
