You could say of Vincent Scully, as Philip Johnson did, that he was “the most influential architecture teacher ever” but that would only begin to explain the architectural historian who taught at Yale for the better part of six decades; gave the Shingle Style its name; wrote several of the most important books of the late twentieth century on subjects as wide-ranging as Greek temples, Native American pueblos, and American urbanism; gave impassioned lectures that packed Yale auditoriums; campaigned against the failings of New Haven’s urban renewal; effectively launched the career of Louis Kahn and, later, that of Robert Venturi; served as a kind of philosopher-king to the New Urbanism movement; gave the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in 1995, had a prize at the National Building Museum named for him in 1999 and won the National Medal of the Arts in 2004; and was mentor to Robert A.M. Stern, David Childs, David McCullough, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Maya Lin and countless other architects, scholars and writers, including, I would humbly add, myself.
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