Paul Needham
New Haven: An architect’s hidden mecca

It may be easy to miss, but wedged between News Haven and Ten Thousand Villages on Chapel Street sits a door that leads to a […]

Pelli, Andreu expound on architectural theory

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 […]

Andreu departs from airport architecture, branches out

Paul Andreu is done with airports. He’s built enough of them to solidify himself, in the minds of many, as the greatest airport architect ever. […]

Sept. memo reveals Peru concessions

Some previously undisclosed terms of a memorandum of understanding between Yale and the government of Peru over ancient Inca artifacts represent more significant concessions from […]

In, ‘Glass House’ art, architecture intersect

When Philip Johnson finished his Glass House in 1949, he had built a home almost without walls — a home built in its landscape, not […]

University questions LEED rankings

Late last night, the nearly vacant Malone Engineering Center was fully lit. Not surprising, perhaps, for many buildings, except that the Malone Center received a […]

A&A Building renovation to restore historic elements

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 […]

Yale identified as steward of architecture

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 […]

‘New campus’ proponent Pope’s legacy lives on

Nearly a century before Cross Campus Library was renamed Bass, the Cross Campus itself was to be called the “New Campus” and was to extend […]

Peru dispute still unresolved

Although Machu Picchu has long been referred to as the “Lost City of the Incas,” there’s very little that now seems “lost” about the site […]

For Shapiro, candidates’ verbal gaffes are gems

The end of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign after the Iowa caucuses was a blow to the Delaware senator’s supporters, staff and — at least in […]