2020–2021 Actions
Footnotes
1
The School is creating an open platform for sharing content, guest lectures, and resources
across
courses with a school-wide effort to examine issues of race across the curriculum.
2
The School will add seminars that further diversify content and faculty.
FALL 2020
1219a: Designing Social Equality: The Politics of Matter
Mark Foster Gage
2242a: Fighting Slavery in the Building Supply Chain
Phillip Bernstein, Luis C.deBaca
University of Michigan Law
4209a: Territorial Cities of Pre-Colonial America
Ana María Durán Calisto
4247a: Urban Difference & Change (Fall 2020)
Justin Garrett Moore
Morgan State University
SPRING 2021
3297b: From Shigeru Ban to IKEA: Designing Refugee Camps
Esther da Costa Meyer
3313b: A Critical History of Domestication: The House
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Elisa Iturbe
4248: Curating Cities: The Power of Zoning
Sara Bronin
4249b: Urban Landscape and Geographies of Justice
Elihu Rubin
4260b: A Critical History of Domestication: Environments of Subsistence
Elisa Iturbe, Pier Vittorio Aureli
3
The School will cross-list and/or identify courses across Yale University from other
departments
and schools. Where appropriate these courses may fulfill requirements towards graduation.
4
Core studio faculty will clearly communicate the specific intent of each studio, and the
pedagogical reasons why exercises are framed as they are, and the studio’s role in the core
sequeece, so that omissions of issues do not undermine their importance.
Refer to the question on curriculum clarity in “The Institution” section of the report.
5
Core design studios will consciously work with a diverse range of precedents and faculty will
be
respectful and encouraging of the diversity of approaches a diverse student body can bring
to
design.
On October 15, 2020, students in the M.Arch class of ’23 initiated a cross-studio Zoom
discussion to critically interrogate the Core I curriculum’s treatment of appropriation
as a
method of conceiving architectural form.
6
Core studio coordinators will ensure that all juries are diverse and respectful, and will
encourage multi-disciplinary perspectives.
7
Embed a multi-disciplinary approach and teaching team in the urban design studio to examine
and
re-think systemic urban policies and structures and the inequities they engender.
The following PDF includes descriptions of each Spring 2021 urban design
studio as provided
by the critics.
8
The School will work with the Building Project team to more actively engage client,
neighborhood,
and an understandig of New Haven as a city as well as its history and social dynamics, into
the
course curriculum.
Refer to the question on Building Project in “The Institution” section
of the report.
9
The School will provide resources to faculty of the required Modern Architecture and
Architectural Theory courses to expand and diversify discourse through new content and guest
lectures.
10
The School will offer a pilot course, taught in partnershp with Morgan State University to
create
dialogue between students across institutions.
4247a: Urban Difference & Change (Fall 2020)
Justin Garrett Moore
Morgan State University
2021–2022 Actions
Footnotes
1
The School will increase courses in urban studies and policy, through new YSoA offerings and
partnerships with other schools at Yale University.
3302a: Tall Tales
Ife Vanable
3303a: Urban Century
Vyjayanthi Rao
4251a: Architectures of the Collective
Ana María Durán Calisto
4252a: The Architecture of the Food System
Caitlin Taylor
2
The School will work with faculty to reconceive its required history/theory sequence,
de-centering its focus on European and American architecture andd thinking, with the goal of
undoing the acceptance of an architectural canon.
In the final weeks before the start of the Fall 2021 semester, incoming first year
students
of the M.Arch I class of ’24 circulated a letter to YSoA admin, in response to the
revised
curriculum of the required Modern Architecture course. A townhall with Associate Dean
Sunil
Bald and Assistant Dean Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen was held on September 8 to discuss student
concerns.
3
The School will increase courses that de-center the focus on Europe/America and engage the
richness of diverse histories and approaches to architectural design and thought.
3303a: Urban Century
Vyjayanthi Rao
3315a: Challenging the Classical
Kyle Dugdale
4251a: Architectures of the Collective
Ana María Durán Calisto
4
The School will offer dedicated courses to social justice issues in architecture.
2242a: Slavery, Its Legacies, and the Built Environment
Phillip Bernstein, Luis C.deBaca
University of Michigan Law
4247a: Urban Difference & Change (Fall 2020)
Justin Garrett Moore
Morgan State University
5
The School will continue to increase diversity of Core Studio faculty.
First-time Fall 2021 Core Studio instructors include David Eugin Moon and Rachely Rotem.
6
The School will continue the effort to create multi-disciplinary teaching teams in specific
Core
Studios and the Building Project.
7
The School will develop diverse visualization courses, taught by diverse faculty, to explore
new
frontiers in architectural representation.
1247a: Animal Houses
Trattie Davies
1249a: Virtual Futures
Olalekan Jeyifous, Beom Jun Kim
8
The School will continue to develop institutional partnerships to enrich and expand the
discourse around architecture, urbanism, and built environment social justice.
See Action 4 above.