School Notes: School of Architecture
March/April 2010

Property developer is Bass Fellow for spring term

Katherine Farley, senior managing director of the international real estate development firm Tishman-Speyer, is the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellow for the spring semester. The Bass Fellowship brings prominent leaders of the development community to teach at the school in order to give students insight into the development process and the architect’s role on a development team. During their time at Yale, Bass Fellows participate in a design studio led by a faculty member. Farley is paired this semester with Yale professor Deborah Berke; their students are designing a plan for a mixed-use urban development in São Paulo, Brazil. Farley, who manages Tishman-Speyer’s business activities in Brazil and China, has international experience that Dean Robert Stern called “complementary to the interests of our students and the global initiatives of Yale.”

Saarinen retrospective at Yale

The first retrospective on Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen ’34BFA, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, concludes its international tour in New Haven this spring in observance of the 100th anniversary of the architect’s birth. On view through May 2, Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future features drawings, letters, photographs, and other materials dating from Saarinen’s years as an architecture student at Yale; large-scale models and related items from his designs for major public and semi-public buildings; a section devoted to the designs he created for the Yale campus, including Ingalls Rink and Morse and Stiles colleges; another space focusing on Saarinen’s early work years collaborating with his father; and a display of his early furniture designs. The exhibition is divided between the School of Architecture Gallery and the University Art Gallery.