of 'architectural debate'
Six internationally renowned architects hold visiting endowed professorships at the School of Architecture this fall, Dean Robert A.M. Stern announced.
They are Demetri Porphyrios, Douglas Garofalo, Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung.
Porphyrios will be the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architecture. Garofalo will be the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor. Williams and Tsien will jointly hold the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professorship, and Hodgetts and Fung will share the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professorship.
"We are delighted to bring architects of such distinction and variety to Yale," says Stern. "This semester's visiting professors represent a range of styles and approaches to design, as well as a combination of hands-on experience, computer innovation and theory that reflect the full spectrum of today's architectural debate."
Porphyrios is a renowned architect and theorist who has designed everything from large-scale urban development plans to university buildings, hotels and office buildings, art galleries and residences. Among his built projects are Belvedere Village in Ascot (England), Battery Park Pavilion in New York and the New Quadrangle at Magdalen College in Oxford, England.
His publications include "Sources of Modern Eclecticism," "On the Methodology of Architectural History," "Building and Architecture," "Classicism is Not a Style," "Classical Architecture," and, most recently, "Porphyrios Associates: Recent Work." He previously held endowed chairs in architectural design at Yale in 1989, 1991 and 1999.
A 1987 graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Garofalo is on the faculty of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture. His firm, Garofalo Architects, in an electronic collaboration with Greg Lynn Form and McInturf Architects, won a Progressive Architecture Citation for the adaptive reuse of the Korean Presbyterian Church of New York, the first building whose design was conceived and executed using digital media.
Garofalo will present a public lecture titled "Materials, Technologies, Projects" on Monday, Sept. 25, at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall, 180 York St.
The work of Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates bridges theory and practice, architecture and the fine arts. They have designed sets and costumes for the Elisa Monte Dance Company and produced a traveling installation, "Domestic Arrangements: A Lab Report," that explores the relevance of the social idealism and aesthetic discipline that formed the early Modern Movement.
Williams and Tsien (a 1971 graduate of Yale College) have created several award-winning projects. These include: the University of Virginia's New College; an addition to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona; the Neurosciences Research Center in La Jolla, California, where they even designed the furniture and the landscape; and Princeton's Feinberg Hall dormitory. The latter won an AIA National Honor Award and was described by Time magazine as one of the best designs of the year. Current projects include a Student Arts Building for Johns Hopkins and a new building for the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City.
A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Hodgetts was a founding dean at the California Institute of the Arts before joining with Fung. He is currently a professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles, and a studio critic and graduate thesis adviser at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Fung, whose honors include the National Endowment for the Arts' Rome Prize Advanced Fellowship, is professor of environmental design at California State Polytechnic University School of Environmental Design in Pomona, California.
Formed in 1984, Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates has won the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, among other honors. Its current projects include redesign and update of the Hollywood Bowl, a new garden pavilion for the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design and the Harley-Davidson Motor Company Museum.
Hodgetts and Fung previously held the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professorship in 1995. They will present a public lecture titled "Byproducts: Form Follows Means" on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall.
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