Yale University Dean of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern will present the season’s first DeVane Lecture on Monday, September 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Yale University Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street.
This fall’s DeVane Lectures, which are free and open to the public, will explore Yale’s influence on late 20th century architecture. Titled “Ideals without Ideologies: Yale’s Contribution to Modern Architecture,” the series will examine post World War II architecture through the lens of the Yale School of Architecture, where the central issues and controversies have been-and continue to be-vividly demonstrated in the studio and debated in the classroom. Lectures will focus on the changing idea of the city; renovation, destruction and reconstruction; the role of art in architecture; and other issues.
Stern’s first lecture, titled “The Transfer of Modernism from Europe to America,” will provide historic background to the entire series. The second lecture on September 17, “Modernism Historicized: The Rediscovery of the Past, 1949-1956,” begins an in-depth study of the post-war era. Each Monday thereafter, Dean Stern or a guest speaker will speak. Guests include noted architects Lord Norman Foster, Maya Lin, Alexander Tzonis and David Sellers-all alumni of the Yale School of Architecture.
In conjunction with the DeVane Lectures, the School of Architecture will host an exhibit and conference. “White, Gray + Blue: A Symposium,” September 14-15, will be held in connection with the exhibition, “New Blue: Recent Work of Graduates of the Yale School of Architecture 1978-1998” (Main, North and South Galleries, through October 19). Both the exhibition and the symposium will examine the forces that have shaped and transformed the discipline of architecture in the last quarter century.
