School Notes: School of Architecture
November/December 2013

Showcasing stage designer Ming Cho Lee

The Yale School of Architecture, in conjunction with the Yale School of Drama and Yale College, will present a retrospective exhibition, Stage Designs by Ming Cho Lee, highlighting Lee’s outstanding, award-winning projects for opera, dance, and theater. Lee, the Donald M. Oenslager Professor of Design at the Yale School of Drama, is one of the most influential figures in American stage design. The exhibition, organized by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, will run from November 20 through February 1 in the SoA Gallery of Paul Rudolph Hall. In conjunction with the exhibition, Arnold Aronson, theater historian and professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, will give a lecture titled “Ming Cho Lee and the Transformation of American Set Design,” on November 21 in Hastings Hall. 

Designing new headquarters for space station center

Second-year SoA students, enrolled in the Architectural Design core studio coordinated by Associate Professor Mark Foster Gage ’01MArch, are creating designs for new headquarters for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), the organization that runs the International Space Station’s US National Laboratory. “What a great opportunity to think out-of-the-box with some of our country’s finest creative minds, while providing these students a glimpse into how CASIS functions as an organization,” said Patrick O’Neill, CASIS communications manager. CASIS COO Duane Ratliff ’01MPH and O’Neill visited Yale in September to discuss the project, a 50,000-square-foot facility theoretically sited in midtown Manhattan.