role as architectural patron
“Do good buildings make good education?” is one of the questions
that will be explored at a symposium titled “Building the Future: The
University as Architectural Patron,” to be presented Friday-Saturday,
Jan. 25-26 by the Yale School of Architecture.
The symposium will ask practitioners and architectural historians to consider
university architecture from a variety of perspectives, including the role
of an academic institution as patron and the role of campus building as a venue
for generating knowledge.
The keynote speaker will be David Brownlee, the Shapiro-Weitzenfoffer Professor
at the University of Pennsylvania. His talk,“Building Education,” which
is also the Brendan Gill Lecture, will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. A
historian of modern architecture whose interests embrace a wide range of subjects
in Europe and America from the late 18th century to the present, Brownlee is
co-author of the book “Louis I. Kahn: In the Real of Architecture.” Kahn
designed both the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British
Art.
On Saturday, there will be three panel discussions: “Do Good Buildings
Make Good Education?” at 9:45 a.m., and “Campus or Museum: The
University as Architectural Patron” and “The Future of Architecture
in Education,” both at 1:30 p.m.
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the
Robert J. McNeill Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery (entrance on High
Street).
The event is supported by the Office of the President and the Brendan Gill
Lectureship Fund, and organized by the Department of the History of Art and
the School of Architecture.
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