 | This is the first major book devoted to the history of Yale's architecture and planning. |
The University recently published the first major book devoted to the history of Yale's architecture and planning.
"Yale and New Haven: Architecture & Urbanism" explores the physical shaping and reshaping of the University, which for almost three centuries has been entangled with the philosophies, ambitions and fate of its host city.
The catalyst for much of the scholarly work is Vincent Scully Jr., the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, who grew up in New Haven when it was dominated by busy factories, studied at Yale when James Gamble Rogers's Gothic colleges were still very new, became an influential member of the faculty soon after World War II and is still teaching at Yale (see related story). Scully offers an overview of the architectural relationship between Yale and New Haven and concludes the book with a memoir assessing Yale's influential modern building program.
The book also includes essays on colonial Yale and New Haven architecture by architect and planner Erik Vogt; on 19th-century architecture by historian Catherine Lynn; and on the residential colleges by Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker and dean of the Parsons School of Design.
The 406-page volume includes 335 illustrations and costs $45. It can be purchased at the Yale Bookstore at Barnes & Noble, 77 Broadway, New Haven; or it can be ordered online at www.yale.edu/printer/yaleinnewhaven.com.
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