Gehry to discuss current projects
Renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, currently the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor, will present "Work," a lecture on his current projects, on April 10 at an open house for admitted students. This semester's appointment is the latest of almost a dozen visiting professorships Gehry has held at the school, starting in 1979. Gehry, designer of the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, received an honorary degree from the school in 2000.
Advanced studios at home and abroad
Advanced studio courses for spring semester sent students far afield as they explored a variety of projects in Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Berlin, Germany; in Amsterdam; and on the Greek island of Corfu. Others stayed closer to campus with trips to Boston, New York, and Toronto. The range of architectural challenges was just as broad -- from building high-performance yachts to designing airports; from constructing a chapel, reflecting pool, and courtyard for a religious order to designing a concert hall for Lincoln Center. On Corfu, the challenge was coming up with a plan to convert an industrial site to a mixed-use development project comprising residential, commercial, retail, and leisure uses.
Young artists respond to modern architecture
An exhibition of works in various media explores the impact that modern architects such as Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright have had on a new generation. These masters of the Modern incorporated developments in technology and engineering into their work, using such industrial materials as iron, steel, concrete, and glass, while attempting also to advance social change. Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture showcases works by 16 young artists in response to Modern architecture. Parts of the exhibit, which is on view through May 9 at the Architecture Gallery, run concurrently at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Symposium considers sustainable architecture
The role of architecture in mitigating climate change is the focus of the symposium "Sustainable Architecture, Today and Tomorrow: Reframing the Discourse," taking place April 4-5. The event commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Brundtland Commission Report, which outlined the strategies nations should adopt toward achieving sustainable development. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director-general of the World Health Organization and currently a UN special envoy on climate change, will be the keynote speaker. "The symposium proposes to introduce multiple contexts from which to reexamine the underlying questions of sustainability," says Michelle Addington, a professor at the School of Architecture with a courtesy joint appointment at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Among the questions that will be raised are: "Is enough being done?" "Is what is being done effective?" and "Can we integrate knowledge from other disciplines into the practice of sustainable architecture?"
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