The School of Architecture has appointed four internationally renowned architects -- Daniel Libeskind, Demetri Porphyrios, Cesar Pelli and Frank Gehry -- as visiting professors of architectural design for the fall semester, according to an announcement by Dean Robert A.M. Stern.
The four architects will hold endowed chairs at the school during the fall term. While at Yale, each will present a public lecture and lead a studio course for advanced students at the school.
"Among the hallmarks of excellence at the Yale School of Architecture, these endowed professorships bring the world's leading talents to New Haven," says Stern, noting that the four visiting professors reflect the diverse points of view now prevailing in architecture.
Daniel Libeskind
Libeskind is the first incumbent of the Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) Chair, established in honor of the architect who designed the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art and who was for many years a member of the Yale faculty.
A native of Poland, Libeskind has his architectural office in Berlin. He recently completed the Jewish Museum in that city, which has been hailed as one of the most important buildings of the 1990s. Libeskind's extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is now under development, and he is currently at work on his first American project, the Jewish Museum of San Francisco. Libeskind is author of several books, including "RadixMatrix: Daniel Libeskind," "Countersign," and "Between Zero and Infinity." This is the second time the architect has come to Yale to teach; he held the Davenport Professorship of Architectural Design at Yale in 1992.
An exhibition showing the design and construction of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, along with several other recent projects by Libeskind and his studio, will be on display Oct. 25-Nov. 19 in the School of Architecture's Main Gallery on the second floor of the Art & Architecture (A&A) Building, 180 York St. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Demetri Porphyrios
Porphyrios, who will hold the William Henry Bishop chair at the School of Architecture, is a leading classicist architect and theorist, with an office in London. A native of Greece, he has built in England, Europe, the Middle East and America, and has received many awards and honorary degrees for excellence in design. Among his projects are the town of Pitiousa in Spetses, Greece, and the Magdalen College Grove Quadrangle at Oxford University.
His publications include "Sources of Modern Eclecticism," "On the Methodology of Architectural History," "Building and Architecture," "Classicism is Not a Style," "D. Porphyrios: Selected Buildings and Writings," "Classical Architecture," and, most recently, "Demetri Porphyrios." Porphyrios has also taught at Yale before; he was the Davenport Professor of Architectural Design in 1989 and 1991.
An exhibition of Porphyrios's work, titled "From Vernacular to Classical," will be on view Sept. 20-Oct. 22 in the School of Architecture's North Gallery on the second floor of the A&A Building.
Cesar Pelli
Pelli returns to the School of Architecture, where he was dean from 1977 to 1984, as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor. A native of Argentina, Pelli now maintains a design firm in New Haven.
Pelli has worked for corporate, government and private clients on projects that include major public spaces, museums, airports, laboratories, performing arts centers, academic buildings, hotels, office and residential towers throughout the world. Among his recent projects are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the tallest buildings in Asia; the new Ronald Reagan terminal at National Airport in Washington, D.C.; the Owens Corning World Headquarters in Toledo, Ohio; the Canary Wharf Tower in London; and the Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Headquarters in Tokyo.
The winnner of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1995, Pelli also held the Davenport Professorship of Architectural Design at Yale in 1972 and the Bishop Professorship in 1974.
Frank Gehry
Gehry will hold the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Chair at the School of Architecture. A native of Canada whose firm is now based in California, Gehry won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for a lifetime of achievement in 1989 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1999.
His most recent building is the internationally acclaimed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, completed in 1997. Among his other buildings are the Yale Psychiatric Institute and the University of Minnesota Art Museum in Minneapolis. Gehry designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, now under construction, and has just been selected to design an addition to the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Gehry has a long association with the School of Architecture. He was the Bishop Professor of Architectural Design at Yale in 1979 and the Davenport Professor in 1982, 1985, and 1989.
Architects' presentations
The four architects will present public lectures this fall in Hastings Hall auditorium, in the Art & Architecture Building at 6:30 p.m. The lectures are free and open to the community, but seating is limited. Doors will open to the general public at 6:15 p.m.
The schedule and talk topics are: Sept. 27, Demetri Porphyrios, "Conversations with Proserpina"; Oct. 4, Cesar Pelli, "Thoughts and Buildings"; Nov. 4, Frank Gehry, "Recent Work"; and Nov. 8, Daniel Libeskind, "November Ninth."
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