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Where the Wild Things
Are
by Mark Alden Branch '86
November/December 2003
From Panthera leo to Danus handsomia, Yale's architecture is
teeming with life. See if you can identify their habitats.
A Neighborhood for
Cures
by Marc Wortman
March 2003
The Medical School's Congress Avenue Building, the largest structure built
by Yale in 70 years, is designed to bring research and teaching into the
21st century.
Designed for Science
by Bruce Fellman
May 2002
Two years ago, President Richard C. Levin committed $500 million to an ambitious,
long-range building program aimed at expanding Yale's offerings in science
and engineering. The recently opened Class of 1954 Environmental Science
Center is the first step, with an accent on the interdisciplinary.
Old Yale: The Tale
of Yale's Governor Ingersoll House
by Judith Ann Schiff
December 2001
The last remaining Greek Revival residence of the imposing stretch of Elm
Street known as Quality Row faces the New Haven Green at the corner of Elm
and Temple Streets.
Old Yale: Secret Gardens
by Judith Ann Schiff
May 2001
The flowering of the Branford courtyard and the rest of the university campus
can be traced to the efforts of landscape architect Beatrix Farrand.
Racing by Design
by Mark Alden Branch
April 2001
The Gilder Boathouse, which was dedicated last fall, marks a bold departure
from recent Yale architecture.
Yale's Lost Landmarks
March 2001
Students come and go. Buildings last longer, but not forever. Here are some
that have served their time and passed on.
Old Yale: Nathan Hale
Slept Here
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2001
Students rooming in Connecticut Hall, where conditions were "necessarily
untenable a great part of the yare," were survivors. So was the building.
The Art School on Its Own
by Mark Alden Branch
December 2000
Finally free from its cramped quarters in the Art & Architecture
Building, the School of Art turns to the question of how art is
to be made in the digital age.
Framing the Future
by Mark Alden Branch
Summer 2000
Yale has spent the last decade pouring money into the renovation of its buildings,
but figuring out how those buildings go together is a problem of another
sort. After an exhaustive three-year study of the campus, a new "framework
for campus planning" offers advice on how to accentuate the positive.
Worth the Wait
by Mark Alden Branch
November 1999
After a year-long, $35 million renovation, Berkeley College looks better
than it has in decades.
Old Yale: An Architect
of the Moment
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 1999
Eero Saarinen broke out of the box of architectural orthodoxy to give the
university three of its most distinguished modern buildings.
Renovating a Classic
Campus
by Philip Langdon
November 1998
"Deferred maintenance" was the overly kind term used for years to mask Yale's
neglect of its physical plant. With the projected infusion of $1 billion or more,
the university is making up for lost time, and paying close attention to the
details.
Old Yale: Tales of
the True Fence
by Judith Ann Schiff
Summer 1998
In 1888, the Corporation decided to remove the venerable Yale Fence. But
souvenir-seeking students and alumni took the demolition upon themselves.
The Building That Won't Go
Away
by Mark Alden Branch
February 1998
First celebrated, then vilified, burned, and battered, the late Paul Rudolph's
Art & Architecture Building may see a renaissance as the School of Art prepares
to escape at last.
The Science of Togetherness
by Bruce Fellman
October 1993
The first new building on Science Hill since the 1960s is all about linkages.
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