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Faculty Profiles

Faculty Profiles

Faculty Profiles

Robert A.M. Stern, Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture. Mr. Stern, founder and senior partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York City, is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received the Medal of Honor in 1984 and the President's Award in 2001 from its New York chapter. Prior to becoming dean in 1998, he was a professor of architecture and director of the Historical Preservation Department at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Mr. Stern served from 1984 to 1988 as the first director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on both historical and contemporary topics in architecture. He is the author of several books, including New Directions in American Architecture; George Howe: Toward a Modern American Architecture; and Modern Classicism. Mr. Stern's particular interest and experience in the development of New York City's architecture and urbanism can be seen in books he has co-authored: New York 1880, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960. In 1986 Mr. Stern hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream," an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series aired on PBS. In the fall of 2001, Mr. Stern lectured at Yale as the William Clyde DeVane Professor. In 2002 he received the President's Medal from the Architectural League of New York. Mr. Stern received his B.A. from Columbia University and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

James W. Axley, Professor. Mr. Axley teaches structural and environmental technology courses and related seminars. Over a fifteen-year period prior to joining the Yale faculty, Mr. Axley taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the professional realm, he has served as technical consultant to a number of influential architectural firms, including Christopher Alexander, Fernau & Hartman, Lyndon & Buchanan, and Koetter, Kim, and Associates and worked as a research engineer at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology. He has published and presented a series of influential papers relating to the development of computational techniques for building thermal, airflow, and air quality analysis. Mr. Axley serves as consultant and adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the European International Energy Agency. He is an associate editor of the journal Indoor+Built Environment. Mr. Axley received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his M.Arch., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Donald J. Baerman, Lecturer. Mr. Baerman has practiced architecture in New England for over thirty years. He has lectured and written articles on construction problems. He is a member of AIA, the Construction Specifications Institute, and the Association for Preservation Technology. Mr. Baerman did both his undergraduate and his graduate work at Yale.

Diana Balmori, Lecturer. Ms. Balmori is the founder of Balmori Associates with offices in New York and Connecticut. Her work seeks new form in landscape design that incorporates ecological principles. Recently completed projects include the master plan for Kent Falls State Park, Kent Falls, Connecticut; Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner Center Institute Courtyard, Cleveland, Ohio; master plan and landscape for a new technological Universidad 21 Campus, Cordoba, Argentina; landscape master plan for the eighteenth-century Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; and public spaces for Chubu Cultural Center, Kurayoshi, Japan. Projects in progress include 20 River Terrace, Battery Park City, New York; Socrates Park, New York City; and Broadway Courtyard Birch Walk, New Haven, Connecticut. Ms. Balmori is coauthor of Saarinen Garden: A Total Work of Art; Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony; Trails for the 21st Century and Transitory Gardens; Uprooted Lives; and numerous articles. Ms. Balmori also holds an appointment with Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She received a B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Thomas H. Beeby, Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Beeby teaches design and offers a seminar on architectural building. He was dean of the School from 1985 until 1992, and director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1980 to 1985. As principal in charge of design with his own firm, he oversees the planning and design of a variety of projects including Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center and the Hole-in-the-Wall-Gang Camp in Connecticut. Mr. Beeby received a B.Arch. from Cornell University and an M.Arch. from Yale University.

Patrick Bellew, Lecturer. Mr. Bellew is a consulting engineer and currently a principal of Atelier Ten. He has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the University of Reading, and De Montfort University. He received his B.Sc. from the School of Architecture and Building Engineering, University of Bath.

Deborah Berke, Associate Professor (Adjunct). Ms. Berke teaches design and offers a seminar in building materials. She has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Miami, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. She has served as a jurist and guest lecturer throughout the United States. She has won numerous design awards for her work, which has been widely published in magazines as diverse as Architecture, Architectural Review, Architectural Record, Newsweek, and Vogue. She was a coeditor of several architectural publications, including Architecture of the Everyday. Ms. Berke received a B.F.A. and a B.Arch. from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.U.P. in Urban Design from the City University of New York.

Phillip G. Bernstein, Lecturer. Mr. Bernstein is Vice-President at Autodesk, Inc., where he leads the Building Industry Division and is responsible for technology and development strategy for the company's architectural and engineering software solutions. Formerly he was an associate principal in the office of Cesar Pelli & Associates in New Haven, where he coordinated overall project management in the practice, including programming, contracts, budgets, and project mobilization for many of the firm's larger projects. Mr. Bernstein writes and lectures extensively on project management, technology, and execution, and works nationally on practice and education issues with the American Institute of Architects, where he is a member of the National Documents Committee and the College of Fellows. Mr. Bernstein holds a B.A. and an M.Arch. from Yale University.

Kent C. Bloomer, Professor (Adjunct). After studying physics and architecture at MIT, Mr. Bloomer received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in sculpture at Yale. He was an instructor for five years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a frequent critic at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Texas at Austin. He has lectured internationally. His professional activities focus on sculpture and large-scale architectural ornament. His work is in the permanent collections of the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Yale University Art Gallery, as well as the Avery Architectural Archive at Columbia University. Major projects in public art and architectural ornament include the tree-domes for the New Orleans World Exposition, roof ornaments of the Harold Washington Library (Thomas Beeby, architect) in Chicago, a large tracery for the new Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which was designed by Cesar Pelli, and, most recently, the decorative frieze on the Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee, which was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. In addition, he has designed light fixtures for Central Park and Eighth Avenue in New York City and for several university campuses. Mr. Bloomer's scholarly work includes the principal authorship, with Charles Moore, of Body, Memory, and Architecture and twenty-nine articles and contributing chapters in other books. His most recent book, The Nature of Ornament, was published in 2000.

Turner Brooks, Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Brooks has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Miami, Middlebury College, and the University of Vermont. He is a principal of Turner Brooks Architects, based in New Haven. His work includes several prize-winning houses, affordable housing projects, master plans, and small institutional work, most notably the Gates Center for the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and the new Gilder Boathouse for Yale University. A monograph of his work, entitled Turner Brooks: Work, was published in 1995. His work also has been featured in several other books and magazines here and abroad. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation, and he was awarded the Mid-Career Rome Fellowship. Mr. Brooks received his B.A. and M.Arch. from Yale University.

Paul B. Brouard, Critic and Director of the Building Project. For more than twenty-five years, Mr. Brouard has managed the technical, construction, and fiscal components of the Building Project, which has built pavilions, camp buildings, affordable housing, and other structures for nonprofit clients. Mr. Brouard received the Judith Capan Award recognizing excellence in instruction and was part of a team given the Elm City Award. He is experienced in practice, contracting, and construction management. Mr. Brouard holds a B.A. from St. Lawrence University and an M.Arch. from Yale University.

William E. Butler, Critic. Mr. Butler is an associate principal with Cesar Pelli & Associates, New Haven, where he has been the design team leader on several urban design projects, such as the master plans for Abandoibarra in Bilbao, Spain; the University of Texas at Austin; and Rice University. He has also served as design team leader on numerous commercial projects, including the Zurich Tower in The Hague, Netherlands, and the 777 Tower in Los Angeles. Mr. Butler also worked as a designer on the World Financial Center in New York City and Herring Hall at Rice University. He received his B.A. and B.Arch. from Rice University.

Peggy Deamer, Associate Dean, Associate Professor. Ms. Deamer is a principal in the firm of Deamer + Phillips, whose projects have been featured in various publications. The firm received a New York AIA Interiors Award and was one of the 1993 Urban League of New York "Emerging Voices.'' The firm's Stetson University Center in Celebration, Florida was recently completed. Articles by Ms. Deamer have appeared in Assemblage, Architecture and Body, Thinking the Present, and Drawing/Building/Text. Ms. Deamer received a B.A. from Oberlin College, a B.Arch. from Cooper Union, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Peter de Bretteville, Critic. Before joining the Yale faculty, Mr. de Bretteville taught at the California Institute of the Arts, at the University of California at Los Angeles, and at the University of Southern California. He was associated with Giancarlo De Carlo in Milan, Italy, and was a partner in several Los Angeles firms, where he collaborated on a twenty-year plan for downtown Los Angeles. He is the founder and principal of Peter de Bretteville Architect, in Hamden, Connecticut. Mr. de Bretteville's work has focused on college and university long-term planning and building, but he also has completed such projects as civic centers and residences. Selections from his published catalogues on California architects and campuses will appear in a forthcoming issue of The New Cityëand will form the basis for a book on campus design, which is in progress. Mr. de Bretteville holds a B.A. and an M.Arch. from Yale University.

Keller Easterling, Associate Professor. Ms. Easterling is an architect and writer researching global urbanism. She is the author of American Town Plans; Call It Home, a laser disc history of suburbia; and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America. She has recently completed two research installations on the Web: Wildcards: The Components of Global Organization and Highline: Plotting NYC. She is currently working on a book funded by the Graham Foundation entitled Terra Incognita. Ms. Easterling also designs KEEP, a mobile storage system made from laser-cut aluminum components. Ms. Easterling taught at Columbia prior to coming to Yale. She received her B.A. and M.Arch. from Princeton University.

John C. Eberhart, Critic. Mr. Eberhart's research focuses on CAD/CAM and fabrication technologies as well as nonlinear interactivity and Web design. Mr. Eberhart is currently a senior associate at Peter de Bretteville Architect, designing residential and institutional projects. Mr. Eberhart previously worked in the offices of Hammond, Beeby, and Babka in Chicago and Pickard Chilton Architects in New Haven. Mr. Eberhart received a B.S. from Ohio State University and an M.Arch. from Yale University.

Martin J. Finio, Critic. After ten years as an associate in the office of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Mr. Finio is a founding partner at Christoff: Finio Architecture, a design firm in New York. Their current work includes both residential and commercial projects. He was the editor of the 1999 2G monograph Williams Tsien: Works and a recipient of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for "Conciliator," a temporary structure based on the work of John Hejduk. His work has been published in Architecture, The New York Times, Interior Design, and Oculus. Before joining the Yale faculty he taught at Columbia University. He received his B.Arch. from Cooper Union.

Bryan Fuermann, Lecturer. Mr. Fuermann has taught the history of landscape at The New School for Social Research, Northwestern University, Columbia University, and the University of Illinois. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and his M.Des.S. from Harvard University.

Mark F. Gage, Critic. Mr. Gage maintains a small architectural design practice in New York City. He is currently working on two apartment renovations in Manhattan and a house addition and renovation in Denver, Colorado. He recently designed a speculative storage and display based residence that will be featured in the magazine Lucky. Mr. Gage also works with Robert A.M. Stern Architects, where he shares the role of project architect for the Baker Library Academic Center at the Harvard Business School. He was co-editor for the 1998 book Building Cities and is currently working on a book entitled The Millennium House with Peggy Deamer and Nina Rappaport. He has been a guest critic at Columbia University, the New York Institute of Technology, and the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Gage received his B.Arch. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

Deborah Gans, Critic. Ms. Gans is principal in the firm of Gans & Jelacic in New York City. The firm's work in the fields of industrial design and architecture has been exhibited at RIBA, London; IFA, Paris; and the Van Alen Institute in New York City. The firm has won international awards and a grant for development from the Johnny Walker Fund for their investigation into disaster relief housing for Kosovar refugees and subsequent housing projects. Ms. Gans is the author of The Le Corbusier Guide and the editor of The Organic Approach. She has taught at, among others, the Parsons School of Design, Columbia University, and Pratt Institute, where she was the Chairman of the School of Architecture. Ms. Gans received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.Arch. from Princeton University.

Alexander D. Garvin, Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Garvin has combined a career in urban planning and real estate with teaching, architecture, and public service. He is currently Vice President for Planning, Design and Development of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission, and Managing Director of Planning of NYC2012, the committee to bring the Summer Olympics to New York City in 2012. From 1970 to 1980 he held prominent positions in New York City government, including Deputy Commissioner of Housing and Director of Comprehensive Planning. Mr. Garvin is a member of the National Advisory Council of the Trust for Public Land, on the board of directors of the Society of American City and Regional Planning History, and a fellow of the Urban Land Institute, for whom he has organized and taught workshops on basic real estate development, the residential development process, and the role of design in real estate. He is the author of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, winner of the 1996 American Institute of Architects book award in urbanism, and one of the principal authors of Urban Parks and Open Space, published jointly, in 1997, by the Trust for Public Land and the Urban Land Institute. In April 2001, the American Planning Association released his latest book, Parks, Recreation, and Open Space: A 21st Century Agenda.?He earned his B.A., M.Arch., and M.U.S. from Yale University.

Philip Grausman, Critic. Mr. Grausman, a sculptor, has received numerous awards including the Rome Prize in Sculpture, a Ford Foundation Purchase Award, and grants from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. The eighteen solo exhibitions of his sculpture and drawings include a 2000 exhibition at the Babcock Galleries in New York City. Mr. Grausman received a B.A. from Syracuse University and an M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Sophia Gruzdys, Critic. Ms. Gruzdys teaches drawing and the senior studio in the undergraduate architecture major. Previously, she taught at N.Y.I.T., Parsons School of Design, and Cornell University. While a senior designer at I. M. Pei and Partners, she played a key role in the design of the Rock 'n' Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. She maintains a design and drawing practice in New York City. Ms. Gruzdys received her B.Arch. from Kent State University and an M.Arch. from Harvard University.

Karsten Harries, Professor of Philosophy and M.E.D. Program Committee member. Mr. Harries has been chair of the Department of Philosophy. A distinguished member of the Yale faculty for over thirty years, he has also taught at the University of Texas and the University of Bonn, Germany. He has been the recipient of both Morse and Guggenheim fellowships. Mr. Harries received his Ph.D. from Yale University.

Steven Harris, Professor (Adjunct). Before joining the Yale faculty, Mr. Harris taught at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, Princeton, and Harvard. Mr. Harris is coeditor with Deborah Berke of Architecture of the Everyday. He is principal of Steven Harris Architects in New York City. The office's built projects have appeared on the covers of B+U, Casa Vogue, Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, H”user, Interior Design, and the New York Times Magazine. Mr. Harris received a B.A. from New College, a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.Arch. from Princeton University.

Michael R. Haverland, Assistant Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Haverland is co-director of the Yale Urban Design Workshop, with primary responsibility for design and community-based planning projects in New Haven and throughout Connecticut, including space planning, multi-unit housing development, campus planning, and town planning. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He maintains a design practice in New York City specializing in residential, institutional, and commercial work. His work has been published in The New York Times, Architectural Record, and House and Garden. He has received numerous architectural design awards, including recent awards from the New York chapter of the AIA and the Congress for the New Urbanism. Mr. Haverland holds a B.Arch. from Rice University and an M.Arch. from Yale University, where he received the Parsons Medal, the H.I. Feldman Prize, and a Takenaka Internship.

Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and Professor of American Studies. Ms. Hayden is an urban historian specializing in American cities and built environments who is also an architect. She is the author of several award-winning books on the history and politics of design: Seven American Utopias; The Grand Domestic Revolution; Redesigning the American Dream; and The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. In 1999 she was invited to present her work at a White House conference on artists and scholars in public life. Ms. Hayden has won an Award for Excellence in Design Research from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Diana Donald Award of the American Planning Association, and the Los Angeles Conservancy Award for preservation, and received research grants from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. She has also been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and the Bunting Institute. She has taught in American studies, architecture, and urban planning at MIT, UC Berkeley, and UCLA as well as at Yale. Her current interests include the urbanization of American suburbia, narrative, memory, and gender. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.Arch. from Harvard University.

Gavin Hogben, Critic. Mr. Hogben has most recently been University Lecturer at Cambridge University School of Architecture. He was also a design critic at Yale in the spring of 1996 and from 1985 to 1988. His practice covers all scales of work from master planning, buildings, furnishings, and digital ephemera. His current work focusing on "architecture and the moving image" has been published on both sides of the Atlantic. Mr. Hogben received his B.A. and M.A.Dipl. Arch. from the University of Cambridge, U.K.

Adam Hopfner, Critic. Mr. Hopfner works as a project manager at Gray Organschi Architecture in New Haven. His recent projects have included a music recording studio, a pedestrian footbridge, and various residential commissions. Mr. Hopfner received his B.A. from Bowdoin College and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

John D. Jacobson, Associate Dean and Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Jacobson has worked as a designer for a consulting engineering firm and as a project manager for a general contracting firm as well as for Cesar Pelli & Associates. For twenty years Mr. Jacobson was the product designer and owner of a manufacturing firm specializing in products for children. Mr. Jacobson received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

Andrea Kahn, Critic. Ms. Kahn's research focuses on the formative roles of site representation and analysis in the urban design process. Currently, she is coediting an interdisciplinary anthology on the site and settlement patterns and co-organizing a national conference on urban design to be held in April 2002. Ms. Kahn has taught in many architecture programs in the United States, Europe, and Australia. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. Ms. Kahn received her B.A. from Bennington College and an M.Arch. from Princeton University.

Fred H. Koetter, Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Koetter taught at Cornell, Yale, and Harvard universities before returning to Yale, where he served as dean from 1993 until 1998. He is a founding partner of Koetter, Kim and Associates, Inc., Architecture and Urban Design, and an affiliated firm, Koetter, Kim and Associates International Ltd., established in London in 1988. His work includes award-winning designs for Codex Corporation World Headquarters in Canton, Massachusetts, Firestone Library at Princeton University, and Miller Park in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His current work includes institutional projects and urban design assignments in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Collage City, coauthored with Colin Rowe. Mr. Koetter received his B.Arch. from the University of Oregon and his M.Arch. from Cornell University.

Lauren Kogod, Lecturer. Before coming to teach at Yale Ms. Kogod taught at Barnard College and at Columbia, Washington, and Texas A&M universities. She practices in New York as a partner of Kogod and Smiley Architects, designers of residential, commercial, and educational work in New York, California, and Israel. Her articles have appeared in Assemblage, Harvard Design Magazine, Architecture and Urbanism, Enric Miralles (AD Monograph), and Adrian Luchini (CWA). Ms. Kogod earned a B.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design, an M.S. in Architecture and Building Design at Columbia University, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in architectural history and theory at Harvard University.

Keith Krumwiede, Assistant Professor. Prior to teaching at Yale, Mr. Krumwiede taught at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden, and most recently at Rice University, where he had an architectural practice. Mr. Krumwiede received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.Arch. from Southern California Institute of Architecture.

M.J. Long, Critic. Ms. Long has been a partner in the firm Long & Kentish in London, England, since its inception in 1994. Prior to that, Ms. Long was in partnership with her husband, Sir Colin St. John Wilson. She has lectured and written widely. In 1998 she was featured in the "Equal Partners" exhibition at Smith College and was an invited speaker at the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture. Ms. Long has extensive teaching experience on both sides of the Atlantic and is a member of the RIBA accrediting board. She has published numerous articles, particularly in the realm of library design, and has acted as a consultant in this field. Ms. Long received her B.A. from Smith College and her M.Arch. from Yale University.

Catherine Lynn, Visiting Assistant Professor. Ms. Lynn teaches at the University of Miami, School of Architecture. She has also taught at Columbia University and has held the positions of Assistant Curator of the Decorative Arts at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and Curator for the Atlanta Historical Society. More recently, she was the Director of Education and Development for the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation in New Haven. She received her B.A. from Sweet Briar College, her M.A. from the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. from Yale University.

Christopher Mahoney, Instructor. Mr. Mahoney is a furniture maker specializing in exhibition fabrication. He received his B.F.A. from the New York Institute of Technology and his M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Edward Mitchell, Assistant Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Mitchell is an architect and writer who has taught at Columbia University, the Pratt Institute, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous articles, and his work has received awards in competitions for the Atlanta Olympics and UCLA's "New Public Space." That work has been featured in Alphabet City and A+U and has been exhibited at the Rome Academy's exhibition "Architecture on the Edge." Mr. Mitchell is coeditor of Fetish from the Princeton University School of Architecture. In 1999, Mr. Mitchell was given a Young Architects Award by the New York Architectural League. His work was published in Young Architects by the Princeton University Press. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his M.Arch. from Princeton University.

Herbert S. Newman, Critic. Mr. Newman has been on the Yale faculty since 1965 and is currently the Building Project coordinator. He has been a visiting faculty member or juror at Carnegie-Mellon, Harvard, and Columbia universities, and at the University of Tennessee. In his role as campus planner, Mr. Newman has designed many buildings and projects at Yale and at other schools and universities. As a principal of Herbert S. Newman and Partners he has been active in planning and preserving urban New Haven. He received the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture from the AIA for lifetime achievement in 1995; national AIA Honor Awards for design excellence for Ninth Square, Battell Chapel, and the Yale Center for American Arts; and national AIA/ALA awards for Yale Law School Library and Colgate University Library. Mr. Newman is the subject of a new monograph entitled Herbert S. Newman and Partners: Selected and Current Works, which is part of the Images Publishing Master Architect Series. He received a B.A. from Brown University and an M.Arch. from Yale University.

Alan W. Organschi, Critic. Mr. Organschi is a principal in the design firm of Gray Organschi Architecture in New Haven. After completing his graduate work in architecture, he edited the 27th edition of Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal. In 1992, he was awarded a German Chancellor's Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for which he conducted research on the post-unification redevelopment of East Berlin for a year and a half. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

S. Edward Parker, Lecturer. Mr. Parker is a partner at Alisberg Parker Architects in Greenwich, Connecticut, a firm specializing in traditional residential architecture in Connecticut, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Vermont. As a project manager and ornartiste at the Kent Bloomer Studio, he was involved in several projects, including the aluminum window wall installation at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Mr. Parker received his B.S. from Clemson University and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Assistant Professor. Ms. Pelkonen teaches design and twentieth-century architectural history and theory. Her book, Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture, was published in 1996 in both English and German, and her articles have appeared in several European and American journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Graham Foundation Grant for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She has been a fellow of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research and of the Finnish Academy of Science. Ms. Pelkonen has worked in a number of European firms, most notably with Reima and Raili Pietil”, Architects, in Helsinki, Finland, and Volker Giencke, Architects, in Graz, Austria. Currently she is a design associate with Turner Brooks Architects, where she has collaborated on such projects as the Stonington Historical Society Library and Archive, the Gilder Boathouse for Yale, and the Pelkonen/Brooks residence. Ms. Pelkonen received her M.Arch. from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, and her M.E.D. from Yale University. She is currently completing a Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Impathetic Affinities: Alvar Aalto, Modernity, and Self-Identity" at Columbia University.

Alan J. Plattus, Professor. Mr. Plattus began teaching at Yale in 1986 after serving on the faculty of Princeton University for seven years. He has published and lectured widely on civic pageantry and the history of cities as well as on contemporary American architecture and urbanism. Mr. Plattus maintains an independent consulting practice in architecture and urban design, and is currently consulting for the Stamford Urban Redevelopment Commission and the borough of Stonington, Connecticut. Mr. Plattus founded and co-directs the Yale Urban Design Workshop and Center for Urban Design Research, which undertakes research and design studies for communities throughout Connecticut and the metropolitan region. Current projects include plans for Madison and Ansonia, Connecticut, and a day care center for the Dwight neighborhood in New Haven. He has served on the boards of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the National Architectural Accrediting Board, the Journal of Architectural Education, and Architectural Research Quarterly. Mr. Plattus received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.Arch. from Princeton University.

Alexander Purves, Professor. After ten years of professional practice in New York City, primarily in the area of housing with David, Brody & Associates, Mr. Purves returned to Yale, where he has been active in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. A member of the faculty since 1976, Mr. Purves served as acting dean from January to December 1992. He maintains his professional practice in New Haven, where his work with Allan Dehar includes the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale School of Medicine. Mr. Purves received his B.A. and M.Arch. from Yale University.

Dean Sakamoto, Critic and Director of Exhibitions. Mr. Sakamoto previously taught at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Architecture, and the Chaminade University Institute of Fine Arts. His practice, Dean Sakamoto Architects, is currently working on planning, building design, and interior projects in the Northeastern U.S. and Pacific regions. He has organized and designed numerous original exhibitions at the School, including Two Views of Eero Saarinen, The Architectural Photography of Balthazar Korab and Ezra Stoller; Architecture or Revolution: Charles Moore and Yale during the late 1960s; and Zaha Hadid Laboratory, which was displayed at the National Building Museum in fall 2002. Mr. Sakamoto received a B.Arch. from the University of Oregon, an M.Arch. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and an M.E.D. from Yale University, where he was the recipient of the Gertrude A. Wood Traveling Fellowship and the Alpha Rho Chi Medal.

Victoria Sambunaris, Lecturer. Ms. Sambunaris is a freelance photographer based in New York City. Her work has been seen at the Christine Burgin Gallery, New York City; Urban Center, New York City; Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; UCLA School of Architecture; and Yale School of Architecture. Ms. Sambunaris received her B.A. from Mount Vernon College and an M.F.A. from Yale University.

Joel Sanders, Associate Professor (Adjunct). Mr. Sanders is an architect practicing in New York City. Prior to joining Yale, he taught at Princeton University and the Parsons School of Design, where he was the director of the Graduate Program in Architecture. His work has been exhibited widely, most recently in Unprivate House" at New York's Museum of Modern Art, "Folds, Blobs, and Boxes" at the Heinz Architectural Center, and "New Hotels for Global Nomads" at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Projects designed in his practice belong to the permanent collections of NYC MoMA, SF MoMA, and the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and his work has been showcased in numerous publications, including Interior Design, Architectural Record, The New York Times, Wallpaper, *, and Assemblage. Mr. Sanders has received numerous awards, including two Design Citations from Progressive Architecture. The editor of Stud: Architectures of Masculinity, he frequently writes about art and design, most recently for the Art Forum and the Harvard Design Magazine. Mr. Sanders received his B.A. and his M.Arch. from Columbia University.

Carol Scully, Lecturer. After working as an architectural modelmaker for Louis I. Kahn and Venturi and Rauch, Ms. Scully started her film and video career working collaboratively on the Prix de Rome film project Las Vegas to Rome. Ms. Scully has produced numerous documentaries, video art, and public affairs shows that aired on PBS and cable television, including Racism/Sexism: Same Game, Different Name?; La Femme Mortale; This Is My Land; Ars Nova; and Lunch & Art. She received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Vincent J. Scully, Jr., Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Miami. Mr. Scully has been on the Yale faculty since 1947. He has lectured all over the world and has served on numerous design juries. His books on art and architecture have earned international praise. He won the College Art Association Annual Book Award for The Shingle Style, and the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Book Award for The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640-1915. Recently he lectured at Yale as the William Clyde DeVane Professor of Humanities, and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington under a Mellon Lectureship. He frequently is asked to serve as consultant or jury member on competitions or projects. Mr. Scully received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Michael S. Silver, Assistant Professor. Mr. Silver established R+D Architects at the turn of the century as a multidisciplinary design laboratory. R+D's current architectural work is primarily focused on the relationship between 3-D digital mapping and fabrication technologies. Mr. Silver was awarded an Ohio State Lefevre fellowship in 2001. He is a New York Foundation of the Arts fellow, a recipient of the grand prize for design from the Nagoya Design Foundation in Japan, and the author of Pamphlet Architecture No. 19: Reading/Drawing/Building. He received his B.A. from Pratt Institute and his M.Arch. from Columbia University.

Paul Stoller, Lecturer. Mr. Stoller is an Associate Director at Atelier Ten, an environmental design and engineering firm practicing in New York City and London. His projects have included Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia; the Singapore Opera House; and the Paddington Basin Redevelopment in London, England. Mr. Stoller received his B.S. and M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

Lindsay S. Suter, Lecturer. Mr. Suter has taught architectural studio and history courses at Roger Williams University and furniture design and construction at the California College of Arts and Crafts. His own practice focuses on integrating traditional, vernacular building methods with sustainable design in both architecture and furniture. He received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.Arch. from Yale University.

Susana Torre, Lecturer. Ms. Torre is an architect and scholar. She is the 2003-2004 Aylsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art and is working on a comprehensive history of Latin American architecture and urbanism to be published by W.W. Norton. In addition to teaching at Columbia University, Ms. Torre was the director of the Barnard College Architecture Program and the director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Ms. Torre received her Dipl.Arch. from the University of Buenos Aires.

Carter S. Wiseman, Lecturer. In addition to Mr. Wiseman's extensive work as editor at a variety of magazines, including sixteen years for the Yale Alumni Magazine, he was the architectural critic at New York Magazine for sixteen years. He has written on architecture and design for Newsweek, Architectural Record, Interior Design, ARTnews, and American Heritage among other magazines. He is the author of I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture and Twentieth-Century American Architecture: The Buildings and Their Makers. He received his B.A. from Yale University, his M.A. from Columbia University, and he was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

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