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Tag Archives: Yale
Dickinson vs. Dickinson
Duo Dickinson is an architect in New Haven whose work, primarily private houses, is creative yet overwhelmingly traditional in appearance. I like his architecture very much. His firm’s portfolio and productivity are impressive. However, when writing and speaking about architecture … Continue reading
Hewitt on Yale’s new colleges
Yale University’s two new academic residences have received much praise (and much of its opposite) from critics, and its designers at Robert A.M. Stern Architects have won a host of architectural awards from organizations that favor traditional design. Classical architect … Continue reading
Trads must step up game
While channel hopping a couple weeks ago, just before Christmas, I landed on C-Span and discovered to my horror I was watching a live broadcast of the groundbreaking for Frank Gehry’s memorial to Frank Gehry – oops, I mean Dwight … Continue reading
More of Yale’s new campuses
Got a wonderful gift in the mail today. It was a card from Robert A.M. Stern Architects, of the sort I often get, and which often give me pleasure. But this was more – more pleasure, because more photos of … Continue reading
The old new Nave at Yale
The Nave, as the entrance hall of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale has long been known, was meticulously restored by Helpern Architects in 2014, revealing forgotten glories in the stonework by the original architect, James Gamble Rogers. I visited … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation, Uncategorized
Tagged Brown University, David Dunlop, Helpern Architects, ICAA, James Gamble Rogers, Joan Capelin, Jonathan Nelson, Mark Alden Branch, Michael Tyrrell, New York Times, Robert A.M. Stern, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale, Yale Alumni Magazine
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New Yale campus progress
Gary Brewer has sent two photographs of the work to date on the two new residential colleges at Yale, Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray. They are exquisite, to quote Elizabeth Moule’s assessment in an email to the TradArch listserv. Also … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Benjamin Franklin College, Gary Brewer, Pauli Murray College, RAMSA, Robert A.M. Stern, Yale, Yale Expansion
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Yale lecture: Krier on Speer
Léon Krier does not seem to dislike modern architecture as much as I do, but he may dislike it with much more passion. The architectural theorist, master planner of Prince Charles’s new town Poundbury, and practitioner of his own edgy … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Video
Tagged Albert Speer, Germany, Hitler, Leon Krier, Nazi Germany, Yale
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Work on new Yale campus
After driving down to attend the Palladio Awards at the New Haven Lawn Club on Wednesday afternoon (alas, the wrong day), I offered myself the compensatory pleasure of viewing construction well under way at Yale’s new campus quads, designed by Robert … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged James Gamble Rogers, New Haven, New Haven Lawn Club, Palladio Awards, RAMSA, Traditional Building, Yale
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Yale’s ‘edifice complex’?
Hartford Courant architecture critic Duo Dickinson has written a fine piece on Yale’s two new residential colleges, under construction in New Haven. Yale’s expenditure of more than half a billion (b) to recapture the work of architect James Gamble Rogers’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Alumni Donations, Duo Dickinson, James Gamble Rogers, New Haven, Robert A.M. Stern, Yale
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New HQ for classical revival
The School of Architecture at Notre Dame hosts the only major classical curriculum in the world, so far as I know. There are one or two schools and departments at the university level that offer a choice of curricula, such … Continue reading
