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This week we are delighted to present an evening’s discussion dedicated to the history and future of The Yale Building Project – the seminal and highly influential university design-build programme.
Before Rural Studio and the miscellany of important live projects now taking place in academic institutions around the globe, there was The Yale Building Project. Instigated in 1967 , in the context of US Governmental reforms radically addressing poverty, health care and civil rights, and the wave of student activism in the face of the Vietnam war, this radical university programme sought to provide its students with hands on experience of designing and delivering buildings for places and people in need. Over 40 years later, many generations of Yale alumni have produced projects of lasting social value, from commmunity theater pavilions to rural health centres; from public beach huts to experimental playgrounds.
Architect and historian Richard W. Hayes recently chronicled the first 40 years of this project in an impressive survey book, and we are very happy to have him with us at the AF for the presentation of his research, and a conversation on the Building Project’s legacy with Anne Markey, Director, ASD Projects, London Metropolitan University.
Tickets: £5 Full Price Free to AF Members and Students* www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
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