Paul Needham
PAUL NEEDHAM
At 79, miracle-worker Gehry still going strong

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 […]

April 14, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
Brundtland: Climate change not ‘left-wing myth’

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 […]

April 7, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
To Grove Street Cemetery: Tear down that wall

When Vincent Scully ’40 GRD ’49 was master of Morse College in the early 1960s, he made a habit of cross-country skiing in the nearby […]

April 4, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
SOM campus to reflect philosophy of group learning

When Stan Garstka visited the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business recently, he was sure to check out its locker rooms, showers and all. […]

April 4, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
Saarinen lecturer Heatherwick changes blueprints for ‘normal’

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. […]

April 2, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
With his camera taking flight, Pastorino changes perspectives

It seemed clear that the kite would be gone forever. The twine was caught on the tall lights over a field near the Yale Bowl […]

April 1, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
Morse, Stiles beat out Taft and Webster

Some of the letters were addressed to “Whit,” others to “President Griswold.” They came from offices just a floor away in Woodbridge Hall, summer homes […]

April 1, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
Inca inventory review underway

Peruvian officials traveled to Yale this weekend for the second time in a year, suggesting that an end to the almost 100-year-old dispute over the […]

March 3, 2008

THOMAS KAPLAN & PAUL NEEDHAM
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY ’50 DIES AT 82

William F. Buckley Jr. ’50, whose penchant for the pen beginning in his earliest years at Yale popularized the conservative movement and transformed a generation […]

February 28, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
Times column exacerbates Yale-Peru negotiations

The epic saga between Yale and Peru escalated this weekend — in the pages of The New York Times. In a guest column published Saturday, […]

February 25, 2008

PAUL NEEDHAM
Princeton offers cues to college construction

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 […]

February 25, 2008