On September 14-15 the Yale School of Architecture, in conjunction with a current exhibition honoring its recent graduates, will host a seminar on the forces that shaped the discipline of architecture in the last decades of the 20th century.
Titled “White, Gray and Blue,” the symposium will complement the exhibition “New Blue: Recent Work of Graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, 1978-98,” on display in the Architecture Building, 150 York Street, until October 19.
Outstanding architects, critics and teachers will gather to reflect on the work of Yale alumni who were at the School during the period that followed the collapse of Modernism. Participants will examine the achievements of such luminaries as Maya Lin, Alexander Gorlin, Doug Garafolo and Marion Weiss within their cultural context.
The program will begin on Friday at 6:30 p.m. with an address by Aaron Betsky, director of the Netherlands Institute of Architecture and curator of the exhibition.
Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, will open Saturday’s session at 9 a.m. with the talk “White and Gray: Place and Pedagogy.” Stern will be followed by Reed Kroloff, editor of Architecture magazine, and Mark Wigley of Columbia University.
Keller Easterling, Mark Robbins and Sandy Isenstadt will speak in the afternoon. Two of the three former deans of the School of Architecture during the period 1978-98, Cesar Pelli and Fred Koetter, will offer their own reflections. Vincent Scully will provide closing remarks. The event will take place in the auditorium of the Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street (entrance on High Street). Receptions will follow both sessions.
“White, Gray and Blue” is free, but prior registration is required. For more information, call 203-432-2889 or e-mail architecture.pr@yale.edu
