Architect David Childs to Speak at Yale School of Architecture Tonight

David Childs, designer of the proposed World Trade Center “Freedom Tower,” will speak at the Yale School of Architecture this evening at 6:30 p.m

Childs, whose major works in Manhattan include the World-Wide Plaza on Eighth Avenue and 50th Street and the “twin” towers of the AOL-Time Warner Center, is a principal in the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

“Tower Evolutions” is the Paul Rudolph Lecture, the first talk offered at the Yale School of Architecture this semester. The event is free and the public is welcome.

All lectures take place at 6:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall of the Art and Architecture Building, 180 York Street.