Yale School of Architecture Public Lecture Series Yale School of Architecture

Occasioned by opening of the Yale School of Architecture Gallery exhibition, “Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture” (6 February – 4 May 2012), Professor Scolari offers a retrospective of his career with special emphasis on personal inspiration(s) and the art of drawing.

Delivering the Yale School of Architecture’s annual Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial lecture, Charles Waldheim (John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design) discusses how 21st century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself and hence defines a new architectural discourse: landscape urbanism.

Delivering the Yale School of Architecture’s annual Eero Saarinen lecture, Edward Glaeser (Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard and Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government) discusses how “cities magnify humanity’s strengths” by spurring innovation, facilitating face-to-face interaction, attracting talent, encouraging entrepreneurship, and allowing for social and economic mobility.

Delivering the Yale School of Architecture’s annual Gordon H. Smith lecture, William Baker, PE, SE, FASCE, FIStructE (Structural and Civil Engineering Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) provides an analysis of the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa (located in downtown Dubai) and the close collaboration between the architects and engineers that led to its final design.

Occasioned by the opening of the Yale School of Architecture exhibtion, “Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration & Transformation”, Kenneth Frampton, (Ware Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture , Planning and Preservation at Columbia University) lectures on the architecture, innovation, process, and legacy of this acclaimed firm.

Freedomland is the latest in a long line of visionary plans for American living. It is an experiment in reconciling the seemingly incompatible needs and desires that define our current economic, environmental, and, most importantly, political climate. Its logic is one of both/and: both Jefferson and Hamilton (founding fathers of our collective split personality); both open and closed; both centralized and decentralized; both individualistic and collectivist; both farm and market; both local and global; both village and villa, and, ultimately, both city and country.