Yale School of Architecture

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Yale School of Architecture
Established: 1916
Endowment: $ 70 million
Dean: Robert A. M. Stern
Faculty: 61
Students: 190
Location: New Haven, Connecticut,  United States
Website: www.architecture.yale.edu/

The Yale School of Architecture is one of the constituent professional schools of Yale University. It is generally considered one of the most prestigious architecture schools in the world.[1]

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[edit] History

It had its beginnings in the long history of interest that Yale has had in art. "Art was first taught at an American college or university in 1869 when the Yale School of the Fine Arts was established. Yale alumnus and educator Andrew Dickson White was offered the post as the first dean of the school, but turned it down to be the first president of Cornell University. Even earlier, in 1832, Yale opened the Trumbull Art Gallery, the first college-affiliated gallery in the country. The Department of Architecture was established in the School of the Fine Arts in 1916. In 1959 the School of Art and Architecture, as it was then known, was made into a fully graduate professional school. In 1972 Yale designated the School of Architecture as its own separate professional school."[2]

The School is housed in the masterwork of its former Dean, Paul Rudolph. Rudolph Hall, formerly the Yale Art and Architecture Building, was rededicated and reoccupied in November 2008 following an extensive renovation and addition.

[edit] Programs

In addition to offering a course of study for undergraduates in Yale College which leads to a Bachelor of Arts, the school awards the graduate degrees of Master of Architecture and Master of Environmental Design. Beginning in the academic term 2009-2010, the School will offer a Ph.D. program in architectural history and criticism.

[edit] Philosophy

As reflected in its current faculty roster, the Yale School of Architecture is particularly noted for the extreme ideological, aesthetic, and theoretical diversity of its professors. Accordingly, the School has made a strong commitment to not promote a single style or methodology of studying architecture, but to help each student to discover his or her own method of design. As quoted from Dean Robert A. M. Stern:

The fundamental philosophical breadth of our approach is not only curricular and geographical but also artistic; we refuse to promote a single conception, artistic or otherwise, of what architecture is or might become. We recognize our obligation to the historic moment in which we study and teach and build, but we also recognize that that moment, however unique, is neither singular nor unchanging nor disconnected from the past or the future....Singular systems of design are no substitute for methodologies; our responsibility is to see architecture from many sides; most of all, our responsibility is to think problems through. We do not celebrate a false, single-minded unity or even pretend that consensus can always be achieved; rather we hold open the doors of perception to the wide world of diversity. We welcome debate, even disagreement.[3]

[edit] Noted Faculty and Alumni

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Present Faculty Members

[edit] Former Faculty Members

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.archsoc.com/kcas/researchschool.html
  2. ^ Yale School of Architecture: "Building history." Retrieved April 10, 2007.
  3. ^ http://www.architecture.yale.edu/drupal/index.php?q=programs/deansletter

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