Updated: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 11:51am
Herman D.J. Spiegel GRD ’55, a beloved teacher and engineer who served as dean of the Yale School of Architecture when it first became a professional school of its own, died Sunday at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The cause of death was complications from multiple myeloma, said Spiegel’s son William, whose father was 83. Although he trained as an architect at first...
Philip Johnson once said that a great architect might see one in 10 of his designs built. At a lecture on Thursday, two years to the day after his last speech at Yale, Frank Gehry chose to focus on the unbuilt nine. “Last time I was here, I showed everything I’d done since my bar mitzvah,” Gehry quipped to a standing-room-only crowd at the Yale University Art...
If there was any question as to why Gro Harlem Brundtland had traveled to the United States last week, her chauffeur was quick to clear things up. Brundtland, the former prime minister of Norway and current United Nations special envoy on climate change, landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and was met by a driver who brought her to New Haven for...
Thomas Heatherwick, Monday’s Eero Saarinen Lecturer, was a surprising choice for the architecture series — which is altogether fitting, given the young designer’s eclectic work. “He’s a little out of the normal sequence,” Robert A.M. Stern ARC ’65, dean of Yale’s School of Architecture, readily acknowledged. Stern meant that Heatherwick was an...
PRINCETON, N.J. — For four years, the students in Alan Chimacoff’s freshman seminar here at Princeton University were undivided in their conservatism. Chimacoff probably taught a few political liberals during that time. But architecturally, his students unanimously favored the traditional over the contemporary — in this case, Collegiate Gothic over svelte...
Architecture buffs had the opportunity to hear two of the craft’s most renowned practitioners speak at Yale this week. French architect Paul Andreu and former School of Architecture dean Cesar Pelli expounded on their work, the challenges of designing great buildings in the 21st century and architectural theory. Andreu delivered the 24th Paul Rudolph Lecture sponsored...
When Philip Johnson finished his Glass House in 1949, he had built a home almost without walls — a home built in its landscape, not on its landscape. But the School of Architecture’s new exhibition, “Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture,” shows that not even Johnson’s minimalist masterpiece is truly transparent. Modern architecture...
Paul Rudolph’s orange carpet is coming back to Yale. In what can best be described as a carpet-to-skylights renovation, the Art & Architecture Building is being brought back to — and in some ways, beyond — its original design. And an addition, which will house the History of Art Department, is going up adjacent to former architecture dean Rudolph’s 1963 Brutalist...
The walls of the Green Gallery were adorned with paintings, photographs and graphic media, but it was not a typical art opening. Monday night, the kickoff event for the Yale Graduate Art School Salons featured an exhibit of first years’ artwork at the Yale School of Art. The atmosphere reminiscent of the Salons’ French inspiration, students from the School of Drama...
There were slides of Harvard’s brick-clad buildings, of Stanford’s mission-revival aesthetic, but Yale’s distinctively eclectic campus was physically on display at this weekend’s symposium on university architecture. Although attendees learned of campus buildings across the country, they sat in Louis Kahn’s Art Gallery, having walked past Kahn’s British Art...
Posted Thursday Dec. 13 University President Richard Levin announced Wednesday the reappointment of Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern for his third consecutive five-year term, effective July 1, 2008. "I am really thrilled to have the confidence of the President, the Corporation, the school, and the many other people I know who were asked whether this...
With Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert Stern on board as its newly-hired designer, the College Square development is one step closer to living up to its name. Centerplan Development selected Stern last week to design its 19-story mixed-use complex, which will now feature hotel and conference rooms — in addition to its previously planned for-sale condominiums —...
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