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  • Worth the climb

    Paul Rudolph Hall is one of the buildings on campus where we always prefer to take the stairs. The nooks, landings, benches, and plaster casts of... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 20 2025 05:48am

  • Above it all

    The terrace at the top of Paul Rudolph Hall is one of our favorite places to get a bird's-eye view of the campus. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 1 2025 12:55am

  • Orange you glad you came?

    On a cold winter day, that paprika-colored carpet in the library of Paul Rudolph Hall will warm you up from the eyes in. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2025 11:08am

  • Beauty and the beast

    We always stop to admire the contrast between the hard edges of Paul Rudolph Hall and the seasonal flowers in its planting boxes. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 12 2023 08:15am

  • Memories of Minerva

    We’re looking into the long and complicated history of the statue of Minerva that presides over the fourth-floor architecture studios in Paul... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 4 2022 08:00am

  • Beauty and Brutalism

    Another autumn dispatch, from the corner of Chapel and York. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 18 2022 08:07am

  • Brutally honest

    On display through December 10 at Paul Rudolph Hall: SOS Brutalism, a German exhibition inspired by the project of the same name that advocates... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 7 2022 10:21am

  • Incredible hulks

    Where better than at Yale’s own “concrete monster” to mount an exhibition about the preservation of brutalist architecture? SOS... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 10 2022 08:00am

  • Pandemiversary

    A year ago today, the university was adjusting to the fact that classes would be going online, that students would not be returning from spring... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 11 2021 08:00am

  • Hang in there

    The second wave of coronavirus infections continues to plague Connecticut, but there is hope: more than 2 percent of the state's citizens have now... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 6 2021 08:18am

  • Brutalist blossoms

    Nothing says spring like colorful tulips emerging from the gray concrete of Paul Rudolph Hall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 22 2019 10:44am

  • Sky scraper

    Sculptor Robert Engman ’55MFA, who was teaching at Yale during the construction of the Art & Architecture Building (now Paul Rudolph Hall)... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 20 2019 02:24pm

  • Comfy classic

    Those comfy chairs in the Haas Family Arts Library? They’re "Womb chairs” by architect Eero Saarinen ’34BFA, who designed them for... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 29 2019 10:44am

  • I just adore a penthouse view

    The penthouse of Paul Rudolph Hall, née the Art & Architecture Building, has been a guest suite for visiting professors and a café... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 20 2018 09:24am

  • Bikes and blossoms

    The colors of spring, seen in the planting box and the bike rack of Paul Rudolph Hall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 30 2018 08:35am

  • Prospect

    Today is a good day to enjoy the view of campus from the top of Paul Rudolph Hall. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | October 20 2017 11:29am

  • Affirmation

    The architecture school is thinking positive in the banner promoting its annual exhibition of student work, known as the Year-End Show. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 10 2017 09:00am

  • The softer side of A&A

    A row of pink tulips has emerged from the Brutalist concrete of Paul Rudolph Hall, aka the Art & Architecture Building. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 14 2017 08:30am

  • Midcentury modern

    This spot on the third floor of Paul Rudolph Hall (née the A+A Building) had been newly fitted with classic and contemporary modern... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | March 24 2017 08:54am