“Fabricating Swissness”
Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie: Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture
Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie will deliver the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.
About Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh
Jonathan Louie and Nicole McIntosh lead the Zurich-based Swiss American practice Architecture Office. Their research and design are influenced by images that create new contexts for architecture.
Their office engages with a variety of scales and typologies, ranging from restaurants and workspaces to exhibition design and houses. Recent work has been exhibited at the Yale Architecture Gallery, the Kunsthaus Glarus, and the 2021 Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. As educators, they were the 2023-24 Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Their contributions to design and research have been awarded by the Architectural League Young Architect’s Prize, ACSA Faculty Design Award, and the Swiss Art Awards. Built projects have been recognized by Architects Newspaper Best of Design Awards, Interior Design Best of Year Awards, and the Frame Awards. Their 2022 publication, “Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus,” won the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Architectural Book Award.
More Upcoming Lectures
Apr 15 at 5:30pm • Museum Lobby
Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal, historical, and material dimensions in their art.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27, 2026.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series