Friday, the Yale School of Architecture announced that New York-based architect Deborah Berke will be stepping up as dean next July, the first woman to lead the school in its 100-year history. “As a practicing architect and a long-time faculty member in the School of Architecture, Professor Berke is ideally positioned to lead it toward a successful future as it begins its second century,” said University president Peter Salovey in a statement.Berke succeeds Robert A.M. Stern, who has headed the architecture school since 1998.She first came to teach as an adjunct professor at Yale in 1987.