Yale School of Architecture

In memory of Frank O. Gehry, renowned architect and YSoA visiting professor.

Gehry regularly taught at the Yale School of Architecture as a visiting faculty member since 1979, most recently teaching an advanced design studio in Fall 2017. It has been an honor to learn from him.

As we mourn, it has been heartwarming to read the heartfelt tributes to Robert A.M. Stern, M.Arch ’65, Dean Emeritus and J.M. Hoppin Professor Emeritus (1939–2025). The story of his trajectory could fill many books: he was an alumnus of the Yale School of Architecture, an architect who revolutionized the profession (more than once), and a storied dean for a record eighteen-year tenure. We’ve collected many of these stories on a tribute webpage (https://www.architecture.yale.edu/news/robert-am-stern-1939-2025) including one by his dear friend Penny Laurans, for Yale News; another by Paul Goldberger (BA ’72), for the New York Times; and one by his co-author and biographer Leopoldo Villardi, for Architectural Record, to name a few. We invite you to send in remembrances of your own.

Robert A.M. Stern studied at Yale in the early 1960s under architecture chair Paul Rudolph. This was what Bob himself termed “a time of heroics”: he was present for the 1963 dedication of Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building; the jury for Stern’s thesis review included Serge Chermayeff, Paul Rudolph, Robert Venturi, Henry Cobb, and King-lui Wu and was the last review Rudolph attended before retiring; and he edited Perspecta 9/10, the first double-issue of Perspecta, which included an excerpt from Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, and which many credit for creating a theoretical background for Postmodernism in architecture.

Back at Yale as dean, Stern emphasized a culture of pluralism and debate. He created new endowed chairs for visiting faculty; reinvigorated Perspecta, while creating new publications like Constructs and studio books; instituted robust public programs, including symposia and lectures, along with an equally robust culture of hospitality; he instituted new programs allowing students to travel as part of their studies; and completed the renovation of the A+A Building, rededicating it as Paul Rudolph Hall. The new residential colleges RAMSA designed for Yale, Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray colleges, are home to 1,000 students per year; at the architecture school, during his eighteen years as dean, Bob educated an entire generation.

After his deanship, Stern continued his support for the School, especially for publications, exhibitions, and public programs. We are tremendously grateful to Bob—for his leadership, for his quiet generosity, and for leaving YSoA in a position to continue to grow and support future generations of architects, designers, and scholars.

The School will be collecting remembrances of Dean Stern, to be shared with his family, to be posted online, as well as for potential publication in Constructs. Please send your remembrances, photos, and thoughts to [email protected].

The Yale School of Architecture is delighted to announce the appointment of two tenure-track faculty members, Anthony Acciavatti and Mae-ling Lokko. Full announcement linked below.

Acciavatti Lokko Appointed - Yale Architecture The Yale School of Architecture is delighted to announce the appointment of two tenure-track faculty members, Anthony Acciavatti and Mae-ling Lokko. Acciavatti has been appointed the inaugural Dian...

Check out this YaleNews profile and video on the 2022 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project, an ADU behind the 2019 Project

Beyond the drafting table: Building project benefits students and city This year’s building project offered a twist. The students designed and built a small one-person apartment located on the same lot as a stand-alone home.

Professor Emerita Dolores Hayden named 2022 Vincent Scully Prize recipient by the National Building Museum

NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ANNOUNCES DOLORES HAYDEN AS 2022 VINCENT SCULLY PRIZE RECIPIENT | National Building Museum NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ANNOUNCES DOLORES HAYDEN AS 2022 VINCENT SCULLY PRIZE RECIPIENT September 7, 2022 Categories: Articles, Other, Press Tags: Award, Dolores, Hayden, Scully Prize Urban historian and architect – her work on the politics of place is distinguished by close attention to stereoty...

Sunil Bald (StudioSUMO) debuts Totem House: Histories of Negation housing prototype at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Five house prototypes that take on Northwest Arkansas’s housing crisis An exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art responds to the area's housing crisis with housing prototypes designed by architects.

Check out the Yale/City Summer Reception for on the Future of the Public Realm, featuring Claire Weisz M.Arch '89 and architecture critic Justin Davidson

Yale/City Summer Reception on the Future of the Public Realm Please join Yale/City for drinks and conversation on the future of the public realm

The Yale Urban Design Workshop seeks a Fellow in Urban Design and Housing

Open Positions | Yale Urban Design Workshop JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Fellow in Urban Design and Housing Yale Urban Design Workshop Note: For immediate hire Posted July 29, 2022 Yale School of Architecture seeks applications for a Fellow in Urban Design and Housing at the Yale Urban Design Workshop, to begin immediately. Intended for an early- to mid-...