Professor wins book award
Associate Professor Eeva-liisa Pelkonen ’94MEnvD has won the Society of Architectural Historians’ 2011 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award for Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics (Yale University Press, 2009). The prize honors “the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar.” In the study, Pelkonen “not only sheds important new light on one of the modern profession’s most important figures, she refreshes the genre of architectural biography,” according to the award announcement. The book demonstrates how architects and architecture “are deeply engaged in the politics and intellectual life of modernity.”
Student awarded scholarship
The global architecture, design, planning, and consulting firm Gensler has chosen second-year architecture student Marcus Addison Hooks as one of this year’s two winners in the 2011 Gensler Diversity Scholarship program. Hooks will receive an academic scholarship from Gensler and is spending the summer as an intern at the firm.
At the gallery
The Architecture Gallery is showing “In Shape: Year-End Exhibition of Student Work” through July 29. This comprehensive display of graduate and undergraduate design and research from the 2010–2011 academic year is organized in four parts: The H. I. Feldman Prize nominees, advanced graduate work, first- and second-year student work, and undergraduate work. Also on display is the 2011 Vlock Building Project, Yale’s groundbreaking first-year program that has enabled students to design and construct public and private buildings for more than 40 years. This year’s project, a two-family residence on Orchard Street in New Haven, is currently under construction. The project is carried out in partnership with Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven.
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