Alexander Stagge, Georgia Todd, Maggie Tsang, Rob Yoos, Matthew

Oliver Preston ‘16 Jonathan Edwards College ‘16 Jonathan Oliver Preston Architecture counterintuitive that in the coming months, wards the modern far before the international Club is a platform such spare structures would be heaped with style while simultaneously respecting our criti- to encourage 2016 slabs and bricks, slate roofing, gargoyles, and cally regional trades and resources. critical discus th all the other arch and wacky accoutrements From Charles Moore to Turner Brooks, sion of architec of the gothic style. almost all of our former and current faculty ture between students. Actually, construction has already started are influenced by this legacy, which starts It consciously limits its in on some of that. Namely, the chimneys with H. H. Richardson and is made ubiquitous focus on the two products have gone up. Chimneys! That’s so weird to by Vincent Scully. But are we now breaking of the discipline - buildings me. In one place you can see quite clearly this tradition in our pedagogy? In a time of and drawings — in order to cel- that the flues are just adhered to the roof, that increasing globalization and architectural ho- Alexander Stagge, Georgia ebrate a rich diversity of architects, below them there’s only empty space — no mogeneity, I believe it is more important than ideas, and narratives. By narrowing its hearths or anything. Maybe I’m wrong and ever that we attempt to produce an architec- Todd, Maggie Tsang, Rob concentration, Architecture Club does the fireplaces will come later, but even if they ture that responds to unique local conditions. Yoos, Matthew Zuckerman, not wish to exclude ideas from other fields, do, we can be sure they won’t be functional. Our country has changed dramatically since but rather adjusts its lens to investigate how I understand the thought — chimneys signify the Shingle Style and calls for something Heather Bizon, Gina formal, sociological, political, and ecological hearths which signify […] family and warmth entirely new. How can we call on our past to Cannistra, Andreas De issues imprint themselves specifically within XXI March 7 Fold and the heart. We’re after hominess, here, look forward to new ideals that resonate with Camp, Jamie M.Arch I ‘16 Gagliardi Anthony architecture. By demarcating the discipline after all. “Welcome Home!” says nearly every our current cultural state? to buildings and drawings, Architecture Club video made by Yale Admissions ever. Strange Edindjiklian, Jennifer frames culture through architecture and to think, though, that if we’re looking for a Fontenot, Richard C Green, searches for a welcoming architecture, we’ve chosen one better under that was meant to inspire, in the late-medieval Chris Hyun, Ha Min Joo, standing of churchgoer, something closer to abject terror. Jeremy Leonard, Aymar our capabilities. That’s overstating it, but I think there truly is Architecture Club’s first some confusion here between what is home-y Maza, Jiajian Min, Ali excursion took place on Saturday and what is just around, that is, what is well Nick McClure MEM ‘16 Naghdali, Gordon February 20th, when approximately twenty worn and historically in-step. The other thing When my housemate, a third year M.Arch I students gathered outside of Rudolph Hall and about fireplaces in dorm rooms is that they student, told me that historical appropriation Schissler, Shreya Shah cherished the unpredictable spring weather force us to imagine a time when people actu- was a major theme woven throughout his as they toured five parking garages around ally used them, which reminds us in turn that studies at the Yale SchoolIS of Architecture, New Haven. Over the course of the afternoon, we live in spaces through which many other I was taken aback. As a student at the Yale BOOK REVIEW Huang M.Arch I ‘18 Kevin students including bodies have passed. Tradition! Maybe that SchoolAPPROPRIATION of Forestry and Environmental Studies, The Pennsylvania-based firm Bohlin Cywinski Maddy Sembler, kind of thought was a comfort once, but now I am used to the word “appropriation” having Jackson“LISTENING (BCJ), in its fifty years of practice, ” Robert Hon, Paul Rasmus I’m not so sure — especially considering that highlyAPPROPRIATE? negative connotations, suggesting theft has established a diverse portfolio of large- sen, and Daniel Marty, it was a very particular kind of person kindling and violence. scale buildings.BOHLIN Their works spans cultural, all M.Arch I students in their sec those fires. We should stay awake to the According to the Oxford English Diction- commercial, civic, academic and corporate ond year, presented on the work of Paul possibility that such histories, which the new ary, the first definition of appropriation is “the buildings —CYWINSKI most notably the many Apple Rudolph, Douglas Orr, Kent Bloomer, and colleges want very badly to quote, are at best action of taking something for one’s own use, stores scattered worldwide from Pudong to Granbery, Cash and Associates. alienating to many of our classmates, painful typically without the owner’s permission.” Fifth Avenue,JACKSON which is why it might be surpris- A curious initiation to Architecture Club, at worst. Cultural appropriation, the phrase I commonly ing that they decided to focus on residential the parking garage tour epitomizes the goals associate with the word, refers to the practice architecture for their latest monograph. Caroline Sydney ’16 Silliman College Caroline Sydney of the student organization. By visiting a na- When I got into Yale, a dear family friend of borrowing designs or motifs from another Three short essays included in the book scent building type of the 1960s and 1970s, the gave me Vincent Scully’s “Yale in New Haven: culture without permission. This is most (by Alexandra Lange, Michael Cadwell, and Temple Street, Architecture and Urbanism.” Sweatshirts and problematic when a member of a relatively Rick Joy — all written with general tones of Crown Street, varsity sweaters are more typical “getting powerful group takes from a traditionally mar- acclamation) account for the firm’s choice and Air Rights into Yale” gifts […] but this gift was different, ginalized group without properly acknowledg- of projects: in his praise, architect Rick Joy garages asked because it made Yale into a place for me […] It ing their source or understanding the role they claims that “the greatest allure of BCJ’s students to engage in a forced me to think about the insular archi- play in that culture. residential work is in its inherently American close reading of their tecture of Yale before I occupied it. I thought As journalist Jenni Avins suggests in an character.” What is this American character similarities and differences. about gates and courtyards. When I moved article for The Atlantic (October 20, 2015), about? In a time of post-globalization regional It propelled the students to debate into Silliman and looked out from my bay “there are legitimate reasons to step carefully identity-crisis, character is a topic of per- the formal relevance of Brutalism as a window, onto essentially a lawn, I was a little when dressing ourselves with the clothing, tinent interest. A photographic essay that cultural representation of the times, it disappointed. Now, Yale is planting two new arts, artifacts, or ideas of other cultures.” showcases twelve houses by Bohlin Cywinski launched discussion on the profound residential colleges […] Their exteriors resist Borrowing can be exploitative; musicians such Jackson offers some clues to understanding architectural repercussions of Dwight the notion Yale has changed since the 30s, as Elvis and the Rolling Stones rose to fame this “American” character. D. Eisenhower’s and this bores and terrifies me. singing songs originally written by African A first clue lies in materiality. The Federal Aid American musicians, who have never received popularization of concrete construction in Highway credit for the role they played in the birth of the past century has allowed architects to Act of 1956, rock and roll. Another example, involved in a execute forms more expressively than with it triggered recent controversy at Yale, is students dress- other common materials. However, for BCJ, argumentation ing up as ethnic stereotypes for Halloween. form is derived from material properties. BCJ over the social The appropriation, even temporarily, of the deploys materials mostly native to the area. consequences of stylistic tropes of a minority in costume was Looking at their work, a preference for timber suburban sprawl fuel to the fire of a deeper problem: that of is evident as well as other materials from Patrick Kondziola M. Arch II ‘17 Patrick that followed, and it How do we approach and understand the perceived racial inequality at Yale. local vernacular buildings, such as slate and examined the realistic vernacular architecture that is around us? For That being said, the intent of historical ap- other stones. However, they do not restrict potential of large-scale the most part I am speaking of what Vincent propriation at YSOA isn’t to trivialize, but to themselves to the more primitive materials. As urban renewal projects ScullyNEW coined the “ShingleENGLAND Style.” When I ar- use styles from the past as didactic inspiration self-proclaimed modernists, the firm adds sig- such as the Oak Street Con- rived at Yale, this was a question I wanted to to drive effective design. Because the use of nature usages of steel into their compositions. nector. Precise and critical, answer,ARCHITECTURE as I had thought about its origins. It is historical precedent plays such an important As a result, several of their houses are clever the parking garage tour difficult to spot good examples of this archi- role in the Yale School of Architecture’s ap- symbioses of steel and timber systems. The foreshadows what is to come tecture, sincePEDAGOGY mediocre versions have been proach to design, perhaps it would be wise to Skyline Residence is a particularly spectacular 2015 Memory Glass Bricks, Collective Jingwen Li from Architecture Club.

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