School Notes: School of Architecture
January/February 2025

Deanship named in honor of alumnus

The deanship of the Yale School of Architecture has been named and endowed in honor of Edward P. Bass ’67. The endowment is a group gift spearheaded by his wife, Sasha C. Bass, and follows in the tradition of generous support by the School of Architecture Class of 1972. It ranks among the largest gifts in the school’s history. The gift grows the School of Architecture’s endowment and ensures that every dean—beginning with the current dean, Deborah Berke—will have secure resources to realize their goals for the school and its community.

Rudolph at the Met

The exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, showcasing the drawings and designs of the former Yale architecture chair (1958–1965), is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through March 16. The exhibition features many of Rudolph’s detailed and fantastical section-perspective drawings of his spectacular Brutalist buildings, including the famous section drawing of the Yale A+A building (now Paul Rudolph Hall). For a Yale Alumni Magazine story on the exhibition, see page 36.