On the Riverfront: The Gateway Arch and St. Louis

In conjunction with the exhibition On the Riverfront, the Sam Fox School will host a daylong symposium of the same title beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31. Topics of discussion will include "The River and St. Louis," "The JNEM Competition and the Design of the Gateway Arch," "The Era of the Arch" and "The Riverfront and the Arch." Participants will include Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, chief researcher and co-editor of the exhibition catalog for Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future; architect Robert Burley, who led the Arch design team for Eero Saarinen and Associates; and Charles Birnbaum, founder of The Cultural Landscape Foundation and former coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative. Also participating will be landscape architect Susan Saarinen ( Eero's daughter ) and former Finnish ambassador Matti Häkkänen ( Eero's second cousin ), as well as architects, historians, critics and scholars from St. Louis and abroad. Formal proceedings will be published and distributed following the symposium. For participant bios and a complete schedule of events, click here. On the Riverfront: The Gateway Arch and St. Louis will open from 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 30 and will remain on view through March 9 in the Sam Fox School's Steinberg Hall, located near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. The gallery is open during regular business hours Monday through Friday. For more information, call ( 314 ) 935-9300 or visit samfoxschool.wustl.edu. Support for On the Riverfront is provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch on view January 30 to March 9