Yale Bulletin and Calendar

January 21, 2000

Volume 28, Number 17

Leading architects to teach
and talk at Yale this spring

Four distinguished architects will hold visiting endowed professorships at the School of Architecture during spring semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced.

Each visiting professor will teach a studio course and present a free, public lecture. Lectures will be held in Hastings Hall, Art and Architecture Building, 180 York St., at 6:30 p.m.

Sir Colin St. John Wilson and his partner, M.J. Long, will share the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professorship. Zaha Hadid will be the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor, and Greg Lynn will be the Davenport Visiting Professor.

"We are delighted to bring architects of such distinction to Yale to interact with our students and faculty," says Stern. "This semester's visiting professors represent a range of styles and approaches to design, and a combination of hands-on experience, computer innovation and theory that represents a cross-section of today's architectural debate."

Sir Colin St. John Wilson: The architect of the British Library, considered one of England's most important new buildings, Wilson is director of his own architectural firm in London, England. He was head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge for 14 years and now serves on the board of advisers for the Architecture Program at Helsinki University of Technology. His other buildings include the extension to Cambridge University's School of Architecture; the City Polytechnic (Hong Kong); the Queen Mary College Library (University of London) and several private houses. Among his publications are "The Design and Construction of the British Library," "The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture" and "Architectural Reflections."

M.J. Long: American born and Yale-educated, Long is a principal of Long and Kentish architects in London and a partner/director of Colin St. John Wilson and Partners. One of their most significant collaborations is the British Library, which opened in 1998 after 35 years of evolution, from concept to completion. The facility houses the 12 million volumes of the British Museum Library, formerly in 16 locations around London, plus the Library of Science and Patents. Long's other projects include the Cornwall Maritime Museums complex, several buildings for the University of Sussex (England) and a public library in Newport, Rhode Island. Her remodeling project in West London, turning light industrial buildings into artists' studios and residences, is now under construction. Long has been a visiting critic at the Yale School of Architecture since 1973.

Wilson and Long will give a public address titled "The Design and Construction of the British Library, 1962-1999: A Modern Epic" on February 7.

Zaha Hadid: Based in London, Hadid combines teaching and research with a design practice that ranges from large urban complexes and buildings to interiors, stage sets and furniture. She designed the Mind Zone -- part of the Millennium Dome in London, which was dedicated on New Year's Eve. (The dome itself was designed by Lord Richard Rogers, an alumnus of Yale's School of Architecture.) Hadid won the 1982 British Architectural Design Gold Medal, and her designs have won first prize in competitions around the world. Her built projects include the Tomigaya office building in Tokyo, the IBA social housing in Berlin, the Monsoon restaurant in Sapporo (Japan), and a hotel and residential complex in Abu Dhabi. Her office was recently selected to design a new contemporary arts center in Cincinnati, her first project in the United States.

Hadid will present a talk titled "Recent Work" on April 6.

Greg Lynn: Known for his inventive use of the computer, Lynn teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles and Columbia University as well as at the ETH in Zurich. His office, Greg Lynn FORM, is collaborating on such projects as a new complex for the Cincinnati Country Day School, an energy efficient model house for the OMV Corporation in Austria, a master plan for Rutgers University in New Jersey, and networks of outdoor museums dedicated to contemporary art and the environment in Costa Rica and Spain. Lynn's first built project -- designed in partnership with Michael McInturf and Yale School of Architecture alumnus Douglas Garofalo -- was the Korean Presbyterian Church of New York City. He is author of "Animate FORM" and "Folds, Bodies and Blobs: Collected Essays," and coedited and designed "Fetish" with Yale School of Architecture critic Edward Mitchell and Yale College alumna Sarah Whiting.

Lynn will give a public talk titled "On the Surface" on April 10.

Also lecturing at the School of Architecture

In addition to the talks listed above, the School of Architecture will host the following talks during the spring semester. Like those listed above, these lectures are free and open to the public, and will be held in Hastings Hall.

Jan. 24 -- "Inside Out" by Margaret McCurry, a principal in the architectural firm Tigerman McCurry. McCurry is also a furniture designer, author and interior designer.

Jan. 31 -- "Practical Architecture?" by James Glymph, the Gordon Smith Lecturer in Practical Architecture. Glymph, who has worked in association with Arthur Erickson and I. M. Pei, among others, has been with Frank O. Gehry & Associates since 1989. He has led such notable projects as the San Diego Convention Center, the Los Angeles Convention Center and the Maryland Academy of Science Museum and Theater Expansion.

Feb. 11 -- "Perspecta in the late 60s: The End of the Beginning" by Kenneth Frampton, a Brendan Gill Lecturer. A noted architectural historian, Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.

Feb. 14 -- "About Lumping" by William MacDonald and Sulan Kolatan of the Kolatan/MacDonald Studio in New York. Among their recent projects are the renovations of a 25,000-square foot loft building in Milford, Massachusetts and of the Southern New England School of Law in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

March 20 -- "Is It Old or New? A Perilous Professional Journey" by Hugh Hardy, a Brendan Gill Lecturer. Hardy, a partner of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, is responsible for a number of recent constructions and redesigns, including the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the Court Street Redevelopment Project and Atlantic Center in Brooklyn, New York. He has also directed a study for the implementation of the New Haven Cultural Arts District integrating the city's arts resources with those of Yale.

March 27 -- "Between Spaces" by Laurie Hawkinson and Henry Smith-Miller, principals of Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects. The New York-based firm lists among its recent projects and commissions: the expansion this year of the Corning Glass Center in upstate New York; the Wall Street Ferry Terminal of Pier 11 and the Police Museum in New York City; and the internationally recognized design for an amphitheater at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

April 3 -- "Place Making" by Mario Schjetnan, the Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Lecturer. Schjetnan has designed many major structures and public spaces throughout his native Mexico -- from a cultural center and park in Toluca to reconstruction of the National Medical Center in Mexico City following the earthquake of 1985.

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