St. Louis Building Arts Foundation

Our Vision

The Foundation strives to enhance current architectural discourse in St. Louis by asking questions like these:

  • How will we maintain aging and increasingly costly facilities built in an era of more concentrated population and broad tax bases?
  • What are the corresponding fiscal and environmental costs of our continued spread onto once-agricultural land at the edges of the metropolitan region?
  • How do we shape a metropolitan economy that offers meaningful employment and training opportunities to St. Louisans from all backgrounds, living in all sectors of the region?

It is in response to these and other concerns that the St. Louis Building Arts Foundation aims to provide a site for learning, training, enjoyment, and discussion. Taking as a basic presumption the idea that St. Louis's architecture is a valuable cultural and economic resource, the Foundation devotes itself to activities that draw on that resource for the betterment of the community.