'Skins and Arrows' to open the spring lecture series of the School of Architecture

Noted architect Bernard Tschumi will present the Paul Rudolph Lecture, "Skins and Arrows," as the first talk in a spring lecture series being presented by the School of Architecture. His talk will be held on Monday, Jan. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall of the Art and Architecture Building, 180 York St.

Tschumi is dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. His New York-based firm participated in the recent competition for the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art and is currently working on the Lerner Student Center project at Columbia University. Architects from the firm have also designed a number of projects around the world, including the Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France, which won the 1996 Grand Prix National d'Architecture from the French Ministry of Culture.

Tschumi is author of "Manhattan Transcripts," "La Case Vide," "Cinegramme Folie" and "Architecture and Disjunction." He was the Davenport Visiting Chair at Yale in 1988.

The School of Architecture lecture series continues on Jan. 25 with a talk titled "Recent Thoughts" by Thomas H. Beeby, professor of architecture at Yale and former dean of the School of Architecture. Other speakers in the series will include: Peter Eisenman, Feb. 1; Terry Riley, Feb. 8; Philip Johnson, Feb. 15; Rafael Vinoly, March 22; Julie Eizenberg, March 29; Michael Sorkin, April 5; and Charles Gwathmey, April 12.

All talks will be held Mondays at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall. Each talk is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

"Our goal is to reflect Yale's traditional character of open discourse and opposing points of view," says Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture. "Yale has always been, and continues to be the most open and exciting place for architectural inquiry. These lectures are part of a grand conversation across time, ideology and ideals."