Alumni honored
Andrés Duany ’74MArch and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk ’74MArch were awarded honorary degrees at the 322nd Yale commencement ceremony on May 22. Duany and Plater-Zyberk are best known for leading the Congress for the New Urbanism, an influential city planning movement focused on placemaking and alternatives to suburban sprawl. Based in Miami, Duany and Plater-Zyberk were cofounders of the firm Arquitectonica and, later, DPZ CoDesign. Plater-Zyberk was dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture from 1995 to 2013.
New summer programs
This summer the School of Architecture added two new travel-based electives available to students before their final year of study. Mae-ling Lokko took students to Ghana to study renewable biomaterials and soil health; and Norma Barbacci and Glenn Boornazian traveled with students to Civita di Bagnoregio to study the challenges of historic preservation in the depopulated Tuscan hilltop village. These programs add to existing travel seminars sited in Gothenburg, London, Mexico City, and Rome.
Building project
After a successful six-year collaboration with Columbus House, the Jim Vlock First Year Building Project is now partnering with a new nonprofit client, Friends Center for Children, which provides early childhood care and education for children ages three months to five years. The center seeks to create a campus with housing for their early childhood educators. Construction started in May on the first of four dwellings to be built on a forested two-acre lot in Fair Haven Heights.
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