School Notes: School of Architecture
January/February 2026

Architect’s photographs

Presenting a wide-ranging selection of Denise Scott Brown’s photographs, Encounters is on exhibit at the Yale Architecture Gallery through July 3. The show explores the architect’s crucial but little-studied photographic practice and raises broader questions about architectural research and pedagogy, the profession’s interest in so-called ordinary places, and the social and political obligations of design. Encounters is based on a book by the same name, edited by Izzy Kornblatt ’25MPhil.

Symposium on the feminist city

The feminist city is a work in progress. Organized by Tatiana Bilbao and Annie Barrett ’01 and dedicated to Dolores Hayden, the symposium Domestic Revolutions and Feminist Cities (April 9–10) will spotlight innovators from Europe, Latin America, and the United States who are reinventing urban infrastructure to recognize women as valued workers. Vienna has led the way by building a “Fair-Shared City” with safety for women in public places, housing projects that integrate childcare, playgrounds appealing to girls as well as boys, and streets named for women. Barcelona has expanded definitions of housing to experiment with kitchenless units, collective kitchens, and shared childcare. Bogota, Colombia, has provided dozens of “care blocks” to support women whose unpaid domestic work makes all paid work possible. Today, campaigns for more egalitarian cities are expanding across the globe. Speakers include Eva Kail from Vienna, Anna Puigjaner from Barcelona, Diana Rodriguez Franco from Bogota, and many other distinguished architects, planners, and elected officials.