Teaching award honors former professor
The 2007 graduating School of Architecture class
voted Thomas Beeby ’65MArch, adjunct professor and former dean, as their most
inspiring teacher and presented him with the inaugural King-lui Wu Award for
Distinguished Teaching at this year's commencement. Beeby's designs include
renovations to Yale's Cross Campus Library and the Harold Washington Library
Center, Chicago's main public library. The award is named for Professor
King-lui Wu, who was a close associate of Joseph Albers and served on the
school's faculty for more than 40 years. Public and private buildings that he designed
can be found all over the world; he retired from Yale in 1988 and died in 2002.
Architecture's temporary home
As soon as the last degrees were conferred on this
year's graduates, the school packed up and moved around the corner to 32-36
Edgewood Avenue, where it will be housed until renovations to the architecture
building are complete sometime in 2008. The building, designed by Paul Rudolph
and built in 1963, is being restored by Charles Gwathmey ’62MArch of Gwathmey
Siegel & Associates. The restoration will include window replacement, air
conditioning, doubling the size of the library, and lighting improvements.
School receives good review
The National Architecture Accreditation Board, the
sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in
architecture, reviewed and reaccredited the Yale School of Architecture this
year. Mark Simon ’72MArch, a partner at Centerbrook Architects and Planners,
was one of two outside observers working with the core NAAB team on the review.
"I was pleased to see how thorough architecture education has become at Yale,"
he says. "There are many levels of activity at the school, including almost
constant supplementary lectures and conferences that go beyond the standard
program, as well as more overseas travel on the part of classes, all of which
expose students to a wide variety of thinkers and practitioners." Two other
developments contribute to the school's excellence, according to Simon:
exposing students to teams of professionals and assigning students to work in
teams -- which, he says, "prepares them much better for real professional
life, which is almost all teamwork."
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