architecture of Yale’s 22 libraries
Two former deans of the School of Architecture and the school’s current
Dean Robert A.M. Stern will participate in a symposium on the architecture
and design of Yale libraries on Friday, Nov. 30.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 1:30 p.m.
in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The former Yale deans
are Cesar Pelli of the firm Pelli Clarke Pelli and Thomas H. Beeby of Hammond
Beeby Rupert. Laura Cruickshank, Yale planner and a member of the American Institute
of Architects, will moderate the symposium.
The deans will discuss Yale’s 22 libraries, which represent the spectrum
of architectural design, theory and craftsmanship over the past 25 years, from
the Collegiate Gothic of James Gamble Rogers’ Sterling Memorial Library
to Gordon Bunshaft’s modern Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to
the Arts and Crafts-influenced new Bass Library. Beeby was the lead architect
of the latter.
Stern, who is also the J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture, is the founder
and senior partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern of New York City. A fellow
of the American Institute of Architects, he received the organization’s
Medal of Honor in 1984 and its President’s Award in 2001 from the New York
Chapter.
Prior to becoming the Yale dean in 1998, he was a professor of architecture and
director of the Preservation Program at the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. He served from 1984 to 1988
as the first director of Columbia’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study
of American Architecture. In 2001, he lectured at Yale as the William Clyde DeVane
Professor.
Beeby served as dean of the School of Architecture from 1985 to 1991 and continues
to be an adjunct professor of architecture there. He was director of the School
of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1978 to 1980. He
has spoken widely and has been a lecturer or jury critic at numerous American
universities.
Pelli, who was born in Argentina, became dean of the School of Architecture in
1977 and established his private firm in New Haven that same year. In 1991, the
American Institute of Architects selected Pelli as one of the 10 most influential
living American architects, and in 1995 it awarded him its Gold Medal. Pelli
has received over 100 awards for design excellence.
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