A symposium being held at the School of ,,Architecture Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14 and 15, will look at the forces that shaped the discipline of architecture in the last decades of the 20th century.
Titled "White, Gray and Blue," the symposium will complement the exhibition "New Blue: Recent Work of Graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, 1978-98." The show, which honors recent graduates of the school, will be on on display through Oct. 19 in the Architecture Building, 150 York St.
"White, Gray and Blue" will gather many of the world's outstanding architects, critics and teachers together to reflect on the work of Yale alumni who were at the school during the turbulent period that followed the collapse of Modernism. Participants will examine the achievements of such luminaries as Maya Lin, Alexander Gorlin, Doug Garafolo and Marion Weiss within their cultural context.
The program will begin on Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. with an opening address by Aaron Betsky, director of the Netherlands Institute of Architecture and curator of the "New Blue" exhibition.
Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the School of Architecture, will open Saturday morning's session at 9 a.m. with the talk "White and Gray: Place and Pedagogy." Stern will be followed by Reed Kroloff, editor of Architecture magazine, and Mark Wigley of Columbia University.
Architects Keller Easterling, Mark Robbins and Sandy Isenstadt will speak during the afternoon session. Two of the three former deans of the School of Architecture during the period 1978-1998 -- Cesar Pelli and Fred Koetter -- will offer their own reflections. Vincent Scully, Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and lecturer at the School of Architecture, will provide closing remarks. The symposium will take place in the auditorium of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., with an entrance on High Street. Both sessions will be followed by receptions.
"White, Gray and Blue" is free, but prior registration is required. For more information, call (203) 432-2889 or e-mail architecture.pr@yale.edu.
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