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Get Lectured: Yale University, Spring '24

2024-01-08T12:35:00-05:00

Yale University School of Architecture has announced its Spring ‘24 slate of public programs as part of our Get Lectured series for the new academic term.

This semester begins on Thursday, January 11, with Bjarne Mastenbroek’s lecture ‘Dig It! Building Bound to the Ground’. The events continue the next week when Nader Tehrani stops by New Haven on Thursday, January 18, to talk about ‘The Animate Analytique’ in architectural design. Tatiana Bilbao will follow his appearance on Thursday, January 25, to deliver her lecture titled ‘The People and I,’ and the next month will begin Thursday, February 1, with the Myriam Bellazoug Memorial Lecture ‘Double Negatives: On Pictures and Petroaesthetics’ from Esther Choi.

February continues with an appearance from Carie Penabad and Adib Cúre of CÚRE & PENABAD Architecture and Urban Design on February 8, followed by Sarah Zwede’s Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Lecture on ‘The Aesthetics of Being’ on February 22. Events pick back up on Thursday, Mar...

Get Lectured: Yale University, Fall '23

2023-09-04T08:00:00-04:00

Get Lectured is our semesterly look at the different events and lectures happening at architecture schools across the country. Today, our tour takes us to the Elm City for a look at what’s happening at the Yale School of Architecture this fall.

Recent Soane Medalist Marina Tabassum visits campus on Monday, September 11, for a look at her firm’s nonprofit work in Bangladesh. Writer Mark Lamster follows her on September 21 with the Brendan Gill Memorial Lecture. The Fall 2023 Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor Chat Travieso will then present a lecture on October 5, preceding Sir Isaac Julien's conversation with professors Esther da Costa Meyer and Sunil Bald on October 23.

The month continues on October 26 with Paolo Tombesi’s Gordon H. Smith Lecture in Practical Architecture on the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. He is followed by Ana María Durán Calisto’s lecture "Dien Dien and the Civilized Agroecological Forests of Amazonia" on November 2. Nona Yehia’s 2023 Key...

Yale Architecture names new scholarship in honor of Francis Kéré

2023-04-24T12:44:00-04:00

The Yale School of Architecture has just announced a new scholarship named after 2022 Pritzker Prize winner Francis Kéré in the interest of supporting African students at the school as they complete their journey to a career in architecture.

“There are so many aspiring African architects, and with a Yale education, they will be able to excel,” Kéré said. “I am the first African architect to be recognized with a Pritzker, and, thanks to the Francis Kéré Scholarship, I hope there will be many more to come.”

Kéré taught at Yale as a William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor in 2019 and, more recently, as the prestigious Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor in 2022. He has remained active in the school’s academic community, which he referred to as “welcoming and vibrant” and also a “place to be.”

SoA D...

Inside Yale's new Center for Architecture and Ecosystems

2023-02-06T14:04:00-05:00

The center’s main objectives are to research, develop and test novel building-integrated systems for on-site energy generation, air cleaning, water purification and food growing [...] the CEA is a 'consortium that unites researchers in the R&D of novel building research,' bringing together the resources of multiple departments on campus.

The four-year-old Center for Architecture and Ecosystems (CEA) was founded as a collaboration between Yale School of Architecture, the School of Environment, and four other colleges. The Center has thus far conducted prototyping projects in Guatemala and South Africa and will, in the future, leverage collaborations with Rice, Cornell, the University of Arizona, and other institutions in further pursuit of its ambitious research and development aims.

“A major goal of CEA is to develop new systems to reach net zero,” the Center's founding director Anna Dyson said to the Yale Daily News. “We want to build environmental systems that are not going to stress the planet’s ecosystems.”

The CEA is in the process of moving into its own space on Howe Street in New Haven and is currently undergoing renovation.

The lessons we’re still ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ after 50 years

2023-01-27T16:32:00-05:00

What struck me when I went back to reread the book is how deliberately it works to collapse the distance, and therefore the distinction, between enthusiasm and skepticism, and ultimately between documentation and critique. Above all, “Learning from Las Vegas” argues for a curious and open-minded anti-utopianism, for understanding cities as they are rather than how planners wish they might be—and then using that knowledge, systematically and patiently won, as the basis for new architecture.

Yale’s new visiting critic Christopher Hawthorne considers the lasting inspirational qualities and history of Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, and Robert Venturi's seminal 1972 text, whose origins can be traced to a studio the young newlyweds taught in New Haven in the fall of 1968. Hawthrone places it alongside Reynar Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies — published the year before — in an antiquated canon but says its impartial tone should be emulated by a new generation of high-minded designers hoping to dismantle or improve the pernicious social and environmental ramparts of our young century.

Related three-part feature series on Archinect: Learning from 'Learning from Las Vegas' with Denise Scott Brown, Part 1: The Foundation; Part 2: Pedagogy; Part 3: Research

“'To tear down Paris and begin again' is not so far, in spirit, from the current mood, even if the political goals of many young architects are quite different from those of the right-leaning Le Co...

The Catholic University of America and Yale School of Architecture have established a scholarship fund to honor late Ugandan architect Doreen Adengo

2023-01-24T12:11:00-05:00

A new endowment fund will provide four-year scholarship opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing an architecture education in honor of the late architect Doreen Adengo who passed away in 2022 after battling cancer. The scholarship fund has been jointly established by Yale School of Architecture and the Catholic University of America.

Born in Uganda in 1976, Adengo received her B.Arch from Catholic University in 2000 before entering Yale and graduating with an M.Arch in 2005. From there, she went on to found her own eponymous practice (Adengo Architecture) after ten years of working in offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and London.

Adengo left behind a legacy of achievement in both urbanism and architecture that helped greatly influence the development of contemporary architecture and urban design strategies while earning her the reputation and status of a role model for young practitioners.

Related on Archinect: Rethinking the global urbanism studio

She was d...

Alexander Garvin, influential urban planner behind WTC redevelopment, has passed away in New York aged 80

2021-12-21T13:45:00-05:00

Members of the architecture and urban planning communities are mourning the loss of Yale professor and influential New York city planner Alexander Garvin following the announcement of his death in Manhattan at the age of 80.

A notoriously pedantic native New Yorker, Garvin earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale and served in the city government under mayors Lindsay, Beame, Koch, Giuliani, and Bloomberg after working as an architect in the offices of Phillip Johnson for a brief period of time.

Garvin was behind some of the biggest urban planning projects in recent American memory. His noteworthy contributions to the county’s largest cities included the post-9/11 master plan for the World Trade Center site in Manhattan and the BeltLine development in Atlanta.

Garvin was also in charge of the development of New York’s unsuccessful b...

Yale School of Architecture Dean Deborah Berke has been awarded the Topaz Medallion

2021-12-10T16:54:00-05:00

The American Institute of Architects jointly with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has today announced Yale School of Architecture Dean Deborah Berke, FAIA as the 2022 recipient of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.

Berke, who has served as Dean at Yale since 2016, was commended for her “engaged approach in every graduate architecture student’s education” in addition to the initiatives that she has spearheaded during her tenure in New Haven, which include the introduction of an undergraduate Urban Studies major, the creation of Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture as well as the school’s first architectural sciences lab.

Relisten to Archinect's 2016 podcast conversation One-to-One #41 with Deborah Berke

Berke was also lauded for her efforts to diversify the school and for leading an initiative to tackle and investigate the issue of slave labor in the construction supply chain.

Berke speaks about the Yale Building Project. P...

Get Lectured: Yale, Spring '20

2020-01-20T14:12:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2020

It's a new year and a new school term, so that means it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

In light of Yale University's ongoing celebration of its 150th anniversary of coeducation, the Yale School of Architecture is hosting a stellar line-up of speakers for their Spring '20 lecture series. Comprising predominantly of women practitioners, the line-up includes Cazú Zegers, Margie Ruddick, Anya Sirota, Anupama Kundoo, Lizabeth Cohen, Wendy Chun, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Walter Hood, Stella Betts, Georg Vrachliotis, and Liz Diller.

In March, the school will host the “Beyond the Visible...

Four university architecture exhibitions to kick off 2020

2020-01-10T17:00:00-05:00

With the new year (and new semester) just getting under way, now is as good a time as any to take in a good architecture exhibition.

We have collected a few of the most interesting exhibitions currently (or soon-to-be) on view at four university campuses across the country, highlighting curatorial efforts by firms that include NEMESTUDIO and Architecture Office. Model-lovers will find much to love about the exhibitions developed by these two firms, while the other two highlighted exhibitions focus on environmental and urban planning initiatives.

Remember, the Spring semester moves fast, however, so don't wait to check these exhibitions out!

Installation photo from 74 Things by NEMESTUDIO at the Knowlton School of Architecture. Image courtesy of Philip Arnold / The Ohio State Knowlton School of Architecture.

Knowlton School of Architecture

74 Things by NEMESTUDIO

San Francisco Bay Area-based practice NEMESTUDIO is presenting 74 Things, an exhibition that positions the Knowlton Hall Banv...

Yale SoA students complete triple-decker home for formerly homeless families

2019-11-25T15:30:00-05:00

Students at the Yale University School of Architecture have completed construction on the 2019 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project, a student-led design-build exploration that has brought a three-unit "triple-decker"-style home into existence.

View of a upperlevel balcony-porch attached to the residential unit. Image courtesy of Image by Zelig Fok and Iain Gomez.

For the project, the student designers partnered with Columbus House, a New Haven, Connecticut-based homelessness services provider that will manage the property, which will become home to at least one local family currently experiencing homelessness. (Archinect previously explored the design of the house in greater detail here)

Photo showing the home's kitchen and living and dining spaces. Image courtesy of Image by Zelig Fok and Iain Gomez.

A shifting point-access stair provides varied entry conditions for each unit. Image courtesy of Image by Zelig Fok and Iain Gomez.

The project was undertaken with the goal of shifti...

Get Lectured: Yale, Fall '19

2019-09-17T21:00:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2019

With a new school year already here, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

For Fall '19, the Yale School of Architecture's public programs include a symposium that re-examines the Bauhaus' legacy on the occasion of its centennial, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first women who studied at Yale's graduate and professional schools, an exhibition on the Tectonic Sculpture of Erwin Hauer, and more.

Upcoming speakers in this semester's public lectures are Marcio Kogan and Gabriel Kogan, Fernanda Canales, Robert A.M. Stern, Alexandra Lange, Dietrich Neumann, Judith Raum, Tammy Eagle B...

Three Native American women are changing the narrative at Yale's School of Architecture

2019-07-29T12:06:00-04:00

Architectural Digest recently covered the story of three indigenous women currently enrolled in three different architecture programs at Yale University's School of Architecture. Charelle Brown, Anjelica Gallegos, and Summer Sutton have made history at Yale. Not only are all three women currently enrolled in three academic programs but through their resilience and initiative to represent indigenous people in architecture. Underrepresented groups are using their stories, their struggles, and their own perspectives to change and rewrite the future of the built environment.

Image courtesy of Yale School of Architecture

Brown, currently a senior at Yale, was inspired by her adobe village home on the Kewa Pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her family traditions propelled her to pursue an architectural degree, striving to accomplish her goal and attend the Ivy League school. Brown shared with Architectural Digest, "I was obsessed. [...] I was doing anything I could to get into spaces peopl...

Yale students upgrade the "triple-decker" type

2019-07-11T15:20:00-04:00

First-year professional degree students of Yale School of Architecture are hard at work designing and building a new three-unit affordable housing complex in New Haven's Hill neighborhood.

Formally known as the Jim Vlock First Year Building Project, the year-long studio has been an annual ritual at the university since 1989 when then-dean Charles Moore instituted the program. Since then, Yale students have worked to design and build homes for over 50 New Haven families, according to the university. This year's run of the program is being carried out in partnership with Columbus House, a non-profit organization that works to address homelessness in the New Haven area.

View of project model. Image courtesy of Yale School of Architecture.

Initially divided up into competing teams, the students in the studio started by tackling a series of fundamental conceptual exercises to develop approaches for addressing issues of inhabitation, enclosure, unit aggregation, and interior design.

For...

Yale School of Architecture receives $5 million gift for financial aid scholarships in Gehry's honor

2019-03-04T14:59:00-05:00

In celebration of Frank O. Gehry's 90th birthday, the Yale School of Architecture has received a $5 million gift for financial aid scholarships in his honor. Made by the philanthropist and real estate baron Richard D. Cohen, it is the largest gift toward financial aid in the school's history.

Gehry has served as a visiting professor at the esteemed university on and off since 1979, most recently teaching a semester-long studio on architecture and mass incarceration. Given his time teaching there and his great respect for the school, Gehry said in a statement that he is honored to be associated with the school through the scholarship fund.

The Gehry Scholarships, made possible through Cohen's donation, will be given annually to three entering master's students. The scholarship will not only support their graduate studies, but will also provide opportunities to travel to Los Angeles to see Gehry's work and visit his architecture firm.

“With the Gehry Scholarships students will have...

Get Lectured: Yale, Spring '19

2019-01-04T14:04:00-05:00

It's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Yale School of Architecture will kick off their Spring '19 lecture series next Thursday, January 10. Lecture events include Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse about “Other Tropics”, Iwan Baan in his “Two Sides of the Border” exhibition talk, Adam Yarinsky on “Posthumous Collaborations”, Nancy Levinson on “Marginal by Design: What Happened to Architecture Journalism?”, and a keynote address from Sou Fujimoto, to name a few. Other events this semester include the “Natures of Ornament” symposium, the “Japan, Archipelago of the House” exhibition, and more.

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Yale student-led exhibition “A Seat at the Table” wants to spark more nuanced discussion on gender disparity in architecture

2018-10-22T18:56:00-04:00

But instead of shying away from some of the challenges this type of work poses, the students decided to publish the results of the survey as-is, and highlight its flaws. They decided not to draw any particular conclusions from the data, and instead hope to use the exhibit as a conversation starter. “A large part of the exhibit was trying to get a more nuanced idea of sexism. Not just sexual harassment, but other sorts of derailing that occurs within architecture schools.”

Get Lectured: Yale, Fall '18

2018-09-06T14:31:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2018

With a new school year upon us, it's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Yale School of Architecture's Fall 2018 lecture series continues with the Eero Saarinen Lecture by Anab Jain of Superflux today. Speakers later this semester include Georgeen Theodore and Tobias Armborst of Interboro Partners, Christopher Hawthorne, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Julie Snow, Omar Gandhi, and more. And don't forget to check out the ongoing “Adjacencies” exhibition as well as “Two Sides of the Border”, which opens November 29.

Check out previous posters on the Get Lectured Pinterest page!

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Yale University teams with UN Environment to unveil new eco-housing module

2018-07-23T16:19:00-04:00

Representing more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and using up 40% of the planet's total resources, the housing sector is going to have to play a key role in effective climate policy. By building green, we can lessen the impact our buildings have on contributing to climate change while also building resilience into our homes and communities.

Seeking new solutions, the United Nations Environment Programme and UN Habitat recently teamed up with the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture to explore how sustainable design can limit the overuse of natural resources and climate change while also providing decent, affordable housing. “We clearly need more housing," said Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment. "But the key thing is that we also need smarter housing” he added.

Courtesy of UN Environment.

As tends to be the case these days, the result of their collaboration is a 22-square-meter "tiny house." Efficient and multi-functional, the eco-housing module is fully pow...

Keller Easterling discusses her latest book "Medium Design" with Failed Architecture

2018-07-09T23:07:00-04:00

In her latest book Medium Design, Easterling turns this idea of disposition to our ways of thinking, and rehearses a set of tools to address unfolding relations in spatial and non-spatial contexts. She rejects the righteousness of manifestos and certainty of ideologies, urging ways of thinking better attuned to complexity and ambiguity.

Keller Easterling, architect, theorist, writer and Professor at Yale University School of Architecture, discusses her new book, Medium Design, with Hettie O’Brien. In this conversation she expounds on the ideas around no new master plans or right answers, tying together concepts from her previous book Extrastatecraft. Easterling asserts, “Culture is good at pointing to things and calling their name but not so good at describing the relationships between things or the repertoires they enact.”

Get Lectured: Yale, Spring '18

2018-01-03T18:52:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2018

Archinect's Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The Yale School of Architecture's Spring 2018 lecture series will kick off on January 11 with Róisín Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng. Other speakers include David Benjamin, Florencia Pita and Jackilin Hah Bloom, Julie Eizenberg, Luis Callejas, Liam Young, and more.

LECTURES

Jan 11
Róisín Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng
“Calibration”

Jan 18
David Benjamin
“Now We See Now”

Jan 25
Jane Rendell
“Home/Work Displacements”
Keynote address for the symposium Rebuilding Architecture

Jan 26
Eyal Weizman and Ines Weizman
Keynote address for the symposium Rebuilding Architecture

Feb 1
Florencia Pita and Jack...

Two-family house designed and built by Yale students opens in New Haven

2017-09-29T15:33:00-04:00

This year’s house marks the 50th project built by first-year students in the Yale School of Architecture’s professional degree program. Since it started in 1967, the building project has produced structures for communities around New Haven, including the Bridgeport band shell, pavilions in East Rock Park and Lighthouse Point Park, and since 1989, affordable housing units for over 30 families.

First-year graduate students at Yale School of Architecture and Design have built a family house in New Haven. The two units are separated by a walkway but under the same roof. The project was realized in collaboration with Columbus House, a New Haven-based homelessness services provider. Most of the house was prefabricated on Yale campus.

Get Lectured: Yale, Fall '17

2017-08-14T18:07:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2017

Ready or not, the start of the school year is coming up. Back for Fall 2017 is Archinect's Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

See what events and exhibitions are in store at the Yale School of Architecture for Fall '17.

Lectures and talks begin at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall (basement), unless otherwise noted. Doors open to the general public at 6:15 p.m.

Aug 31
Janet Marie Smith, Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellow
“America’s Urban Diamonds: Hits, Runs, and Errors”

Sept 7
Scott Ruff, Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor
“Black Matter”

Sept 14
Ada Karmi-Melamede
Gallery talk on the “Social...

Yale students are raising awareness about homelessness and affordable housing

2017-06-20T18:35:00-04:00

Inside the pavilion is a long table embedded with exhibits and audio stations telling the stories of people who are either experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless, along with excerpts from data sets, state reports, urban theory, poetry, and literature.

Working with New Haven-based homeless services provider Columbus House, students from the Yale School of Architecture designed an interactive pavilion that will be featured at this year’s festival together with an exhibition of student work in the YSoA architecture gallery showing proposals for affordable two-unit dwellings.

“The built environment affects us all, and it is our belief that architects and designers have an important role to play in addressing many of the most vexing issues of our time, including the shortage of affordable housing and making our cities more inclusive," states Deborah Berke, Dean of the YSoA.

The pavilion is open to the public 10AM - 4PM through June 24, and the exhibition will be on display Monday-Friday, 9AM - 5PM, and Saturday, 10AM - 5PM. through Aug. 12 at the YSoA gallery, 180 York St.

Get Lectured: Yale, Spring '17

2017-02-09T14:46:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter & Spring 2017

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session for Winter and Spring 2017. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss. Mark those calendars!

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Check out these upcoming lectures at the Yale School of Architecture for Spring '17. Unless noted otherwise, lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall (basement floor). Doors open to the public at 6:15.

Feb 23
Karsten Harries
"Running Out of Space? Architecture and the Need for a Post-Copernican Geocentrism"

Mar 30
Maria Gough
"Architecture as Such''

Apr 6
Tom Phifer
"Four Museums and Other Work"

Apr 7
Kazuyo Sejima
"Environment and Architecture"
Keynote address for the "Material Light::Light Material" sy...

"Complexity and Convention", an exhibition curated by Greg Lynn, to open at the Yale School of Architecture

2016-12-19T12:37:00-05:00

Opening on Thursday, January 12 at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, “Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention” is a new exhibition that considers the integration of digital technologies in architecture practice during the 1990s and 2000s. The exhibition, which is curated by Greg Lynn, is the third and final exhibition of the “Archaeology of the Digital” series organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). The series highlights 25 seminal projects while considering the preservation challenges posed by digital archives.

Unlike the first two exhibitions, “Complexity and Convention” looks at similarities, rather than distinctions, in the approaches of various projects. The exhibition is divided into five themes: high fidelity 3D, structure/cladding, data, photorealism, and topography/topology.

Projects featured in the exhibition include:

Erasmus Bridge (Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 1990-1996) by Van Berkel & Bos Architects; Chemnitz Stadium (Chemnitz, Ge...

Only one student enrolled in a Yale course about women architects, despite grievances against poor representation

2016-11-18T15:09:00-05:00

“This is not a position that has been strongly represented in this school historically,” [said Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty, who believes] The crux of the issue is whether courses that champion diversity in architecture should be taught as optional, specialized seminars or integrated into the curriculum of the school.

Now with Deborah Berke as dean, the Yale School of Architecture is working to offer more courses focusing on women in architecture such as “Expanding the Canon: Making Room for Other Voices”, an optional seminar that would've been taught by visiting professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty. But only one student enrolled in the class “despite students voicing grievances about a lack of female representation”, the Yale Daily News reports.

James-Chakraborty questions if such diversity courses should become a requirement in the school's already rigid curriculum. Some female students say that YSoA still feels like “a gentleman's club”, and that the “student body is not well-primed to see the ‘radical nature’ of the course.”

Yale School of Architecture students respond to AIA's comments in support of President-elect Donald Trump

2016-11-14T18:37:00-05:00

On November 9, 2016, the American Institute of Architects resigned itself to a cowardly position of economic and political subservience with its support of President-elect Trump. The AIA’s refusal to take a principled stance on an incoming administration that galvanized support through hatred, divisiveness, and fear constitutes an abdication of its self-proclaimed responsibility to speak on behalf of architects and a contradiction of its own stated beliefs.

We, the undersigned students of the Yale School of Architecture, unequivocally denounce the AIA’s endorsement of the new status quo. For too long, our profession has been complicit in giving form to landscapes of inequality and discrimination, and has itself been plagued by a history of racial and gender inequity. The AIA’s immediate and unquestioning pandering to the Trump administration threatens a continuation of our troubled past and demonstrates a willingness to pursue financial gain at the expense of our values. With the pro...

Yale Dean Deborah Berke advocates pluralism in pedagogy

2016-07-28T13:45:00-04:00

Deborah Berke, a practicing architect with a firm of over 60 employees and former adjunct Yale professor, has replaced the inimitable Robert "Bob" A.M. Stern as the dean of the Yale School of Architecture. Berke has ideas about how to shape the future of the school's pedagogy. In an interview with the CTPost, she lays out her vision, which is centered on advancing the "history of pluralism":

In terms of curriculum, her definition of pluralism will expand to include more emphasis on how architecture can respond to the impact of climate change and globalization, both of which she emphasizes as “rapid.” For the student body, which is already about 50 percent female, and faculty, pluralism translates to broader diversity.

“Let’s put it this way,” she says, “the profession of architecture does not look like the population at large and I am going to work hard toward having the architects we train and the architects who teach be more reflective of the population at large.”

In anticipation of centennial, Yale School of Architecture preps "Pedagogy and Place" exhibition

2015-11-04T12:36:00-05:00

“Pedagogy and Place: Celebrating 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale”... will present YSoA alumni work and archival documents tracing the development of architecture education at Yale and the buildings that have housed the architecture program. [...] An auxiliary installation ... depicts more than 30 architecture schools from around the world to further illuminate the evolution of architecture education and the relationship between pedagogy and place.

The free and public exhibition “Pedagogy and Place” opens December 3 and is on display through May 7, 2016, located in Yale's Rudolph Hall gallery at 180 York St.

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