Pedagogy and Place: 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale,by Robert A.M. Stern and Jimmy Stamp. Yale University Press, May 2016, 668 pages, $100.
If you want to know the history of the Yale School of Architecture, you’d be hard pressed to ask anyone more knowledgeable than Robert A.M. Stern, its dean from 1998 until this past July. Published to mark the 100th anniversary of the first class to graduate from Yale’s professional program in 1916, Pedagogy and Place is a tribute from the erudite and prolific author to his alma mater and academic home for the last 18 years. Written in collaboration with Jimmy Stamp, whose witty musings on architecture have appeared in The Guardian, Smithsonian, and Wired, its 668 pages make it a weighty tome. Fortunately the weight is leavened, despite the pedantic title, by unexpectedly lively text and carefully curated archival images. Given the visual nature of the subject, it’s disappointing there aren’t more.
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