Class of 1972 Professorship
David Gissen ’96MArch has been named the inaugural Architecture Class of 1972 Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and will lead the Yale PhD program in architecture. A fund created in celebration of the class’s 50th reunion supports this professorship in the history and theory of architecture.
Gissen is a historian of architecture and an author of works of architecture theory and criticism. His research examines physiological and environmental concepts embedded within modern and late-modern architecture and design. In particular, he studies the way works of architecture shape experiences of health, stability, capacity, and normalcy within built space. He traces these processes in historical research and responds with alternative, critical formulations of use to scholars and designers.
As the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale in 2019–20, Gissen taught an advanced studio on pre-modern interiors of Vienna and a seminar on polychromy in architecture.
Drawing on the ineffable
The School of Architecture is celebrating the publication, with Yale University Press, of Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable, a retrospective publication that paints a new portrait of legendary architect Stanley Tigerman’61MArch through his drawings, collages, and sketches, most of which are drawn from the Stanley Tigerman papers in the Archives at Yale. The book, edited by George Papamatthaiakis ’23MEnvD and designed by Miko McGinty ’93, ’98MFA, showcases a variety of creative documents and drawing styles representing the wide array of Tigerman’sprojects and interests: master plans, urban designs, civic infrastructures such as museums and low-income housing, private residences, exhibition designs, furniture, and tableware as well as architectural cartoons, called “Architoons.” From the pragmatic and technical to the symbolic and narrative-driven, Tigerman’s drawings capture his creative process and unique blend of intellect, wit, and humanistic sensibility.
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