Global challenges to safe bulding
A two-day symposium at the School in early November explored the challenges that architects face in countries with weak or nonexistent building code systems. Leaders in banking, insurance, architecture, and government discussed new ways of guaranteeing safe buildings for the developing world, despite the challenges of earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters.
Fall lecture series wraps up
The semester’s weekly lecture series, which led off with an appearance by Stanley Tigerman in August, comes to a close in November with talks by British architect David Chipperfield, Yale associate professor of architecture Keith Krumwiede, and Columbia University professor of architecture Kenneth Frampton. The lecture series features prominent architects, critics, and historians who speak on various topics relevant to architecture.
Retrospective of Gwathmey Siegel
The first museum exhibition devoted to the work of American architectural firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects opens November 14 at Yale and celebrates the arrival of the firm’s records at Yale University Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Gwathmey Siegel, which won the American Institute of Architects’ Architecture Firm Award in 1982, is known for such designs as Whig Hall at Princeton University and the restoration of and extension to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Charles Gwathmey ’62MArch renovated and restored Paul Rudolph Hall in 2008 and designed the companion building, the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art. He died in 2009.Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration and Transformation will be on view through January 28.
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