School Notes: School of Architecture
May/June 2014

Professor receives national award

Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies, received the Laurence Gerckens Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) at that organization’s national conference on planning history. The award is given to a scholar-teacher “who has demonstrated sustained teaching excellence and educational leadership in the field of urban planning history.” 

Hayden is the past president of the Urban History Association and the author of several award-winning books about American landscapes and the politics of the built environment. A Field Guide to Sprawl (Norton, 2004) was the subject of an exhibition at Yale in 2007. That book and Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000 (Pantheon Books, 2003, Vintage, 2004), were both selected by Planetizen as “Top Ten” books in urban studies. Among her many honors, Hayden has won Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEH, NEA, and ACLS/Ford fellowships. She is also a widely published poet whose work has appeared in the Yale Review, Southwest Review, the American Scholar, and The Best American Poetry 2009.

Latest book in Kahn series released

Renewing Architectural Typologies: House, Mosque, Library, the fifth title in the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship book series, was recently published by the Yale School of Architecture and launched at an event in New York City. The book features the three advanced studios led by Makram El Kadi and Ziad Jamaleddine (L.E.FT Architects, New York and Beirut); Hernan Diaz Alonso (Xefirotarc, Los Angeles); and Tom Coward, Daisy Froud, Vincent Lacovara, and Geoff Shearcroft (AOC, London). Edited by Nina Rappaport and Leticia Wouk Almino de Souza ’11MArch, it includes interviews with the architects about the work of their professional offices, essays on the themes of their studios, and student projects. The book was designed by MGMT Design and distributed by Actar D.