to design for the future
Four distinguished architects are holding visiting endowed professorships this spring at the School of Architecture.
They are: Lise Anne Couture, the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architecture; Greg Lynn, the William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor; Frank Gehry, the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor; and Zaha Hadid, the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor.
"The Yale School of Architecture has a long and proud tradition of bringing the best and brightest architects from around the world to campus, where they work closely with our students," says Architecture School Dean Robert A.M. Stern. "Supported by three long-standing endowments and one recently established fund, these visiting professorships allow us to expose students to an extraordinary range of ideas and experiences in architectural theory and practice."
Couture is codirector with Hani Rashid of Asymptote, a design studio they founded in 1989. The firm is known for its innovative projects testing the boundaries between virtual and physical reality. Among the most celebrated of their cyber-real projects are the 3DTF, a virtual trading floor for the New York Stock Exchange, and the Guggenheim Virtual Museum.
Couture's work has been exhibited widely in North America and Europe and at the 1996 and 2000 Venice Biennales of Architecture. She received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale in 1986 and has since held academic appointments at universities in the United States and overseas. She is currently on the faculty of the Department of Architecture at Parsons School of Design and at Columbia University in New York.
The Bishop Visiting Professorship was established through the bequest of William Henry Bishop (B.A. 1876).
Lynn is known for his revolutionary use of computer software in the design and production of diverse projects, from architectural models and building components to the buildings themselves. With Douglas Garofalo and Michael McInturf, he helped design the Korean Presbyterian Church of New York, one of the first major "paperless" digital projects.
Lynn currently holds posts at the University of California in Los Angeles and at the Polytechnic Institute (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich, Switzerland, where he is professor of spatial conception and exploration. His Los Angeles-based office, Greg Lynn FORM, has handled projects ranging from a plan for an embryonic house to the design for a time capsule. Lynn is the author of two books, "Animate FORM" and "Folds, Bodies and Blobs: Collected Essays."
The Davenport Visiting Professorship was established through the generosity of Professor Shepherd Stevens (B.F.A 1922), in honor of his uncle and aunt, William B. (B.A. 1867) and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport.
An architect of international renown, Gehry received the highest honor in his field, the Pritzker Prize, in 1989, eight years before the completion of his most celebrated work, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Known for his unique sculptural architectural style, Gehry achieved commercial success by reinventing the chair in Easy Edges, his popular furniture line featuring laminated cardboard designs, and a higher-end furniture collection called Rough Edges. The architect gained national recognition in 1978 with the renovation of his own home in Santa Monica, California, which used a collage of oddly juxtaposed shapes made of inexpensive plywood and corrugated cardboard. Gehry's other design projects include the Disney Concert Hall and Hotel in Los Angeles, the "Fred and Ginger" building in Prague and the Frederick R. Weisman Art and Teaching Museum in Minneapolis.
The Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professorship was established through the generosity of faculty, alumni and friends of Yale in honor of the renowned architect and teacher. While he was a member of the Yale faculty, Kahn designed the Yale University Art Gallery. His final project was the Yale Center for British Art.
Hadid is internationally recognized as a leading academic, artist and designer. The diverse projects of her London-based studio range from furniture and interior designs to large-scale urban structures. Among her most acclaimed ventures are the Vitra Fire Station in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany; the installation for "The Great Utopia" exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Peak Club, Hong Kong; and the Cardiff Bay Opera House.
A native of Iraq, Hadid has held endowed posts and visiting professorships at such institutions as Harvard, the University of Chicago and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited around the world, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, among others.
The Saarinen Visiting Professorship was established in 1984 through the generosity of architect Kevin Roche and other former colleagues and clients of Eero Saarinen, who received his B.Arch. from Yale in 1934. Saarinen's works include the GM Tech Center, the St. Louis Gateway Arch and the U.S. Embassy in London, and he was a major force behind Yale's building program during the 1950s and 1960s.
In their respective advanced studio classes at Yale this term, both Gehry and Hadid have chosen projects for the World Trade Center site. Gehry's students are asked to come up with a design for a "one-room space" to serve as a commemorative meeting place, while Hadid's class is considering a plan for an altogether different kind of office complex to replace the Trade Center.
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