 | Gregg Pasquarelli |
A new endowed chair, the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship, has been established at the School of Architecture.
Dean Robert A.M. Stern announced the creation of the new chair on Jan. 23 at a symposium honoring Kahn, the renowned 20th-century architect whose first and last built projects are Yale landmarks. The symposium was hosted by the School of Architecture, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art.
At the symposium Stern also announced that prominent young architect Gregg Pasquarelli had been named the first Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor.
Kahn (1901-1974) is closely associated with Yale and New Haven. He taught at the School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. The Yale Art Gallery is his first built project; the Yale Center for British Art, his last. The symposium, in fact, marked the 25th and 50th anniversaries of those historic buildings.
The newly created chair for younger visiting faculty is the second professorship at the School of Architecture to honor the renowned architect. The Louis I. Kahn Professorship for outstanding architects was inaugurated in 1999. Daniel Libeskind was the first to hold that chair; Frank O. Gehry is the current Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor.
"This new visiting professorship, earmarked for young architects, provides an opportunity to infuse Yale with new ideas and new voices," Stern remarked. "It is a welcome complement to the lecture series, visiting professorships and visiting critics program that already enrich the architectural community at Yale."
Pasquarelli, who is teaching an advanced studio at the School of Architecture this term, is a founding member of SHoP. The internationally recognized firm, which derives its name from its founders and partners -- William, Christopher and Coren Sharples, Kimberly Holden and Pasquarelli -- is widely heralded as a leader among design firms working with the new digital technology. SHoP's disparate projects range from a technologically inventive condominium complex and a footbridge at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan to a single-family residence in Aspen, Colorado. Last year Time magazine's Design Issue featured SHoP's design for a high-tech "telephone booth," which serves as an electronic kiosk-bulletin board when closed, and a multipurpose communications hub when in use.
Stern stated that, "Pasquarelli's appointment struck just the right note to inaugurate the new Kahn visiting professorship. His work is technologically innovative, while his approach is firmly grounded in the humanistic tradition which Kahn's philosophy and work so embodied."
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