By Mike Cummings
May 10, 2021
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Dean Deborah Berke
In September 2015, Deborah Berke was named dean of the Yale School of Architecture, becoming the first woman to lead the world-renowned institution.
As dean, Berke has led efforts to expand financial aid, established programs examining issues concerning environmental sustainability, recruited top-flight faculty, and forged collaborations with other schools and departments on campus. She was recently reappointed to a second five-year term as dean.
Berke, an accomplished architect who has taught at Yale for more than 30 years, recently spoke to YaleNews about her plans for her next term, which begins July 1. The interview has been edited and condensed.
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Buffalo s Riverline is starting to take shape, with landscape designs from architects.
For decades, it was just an old DL&W railroad line from downtown Buffalo into the city’s East Side, gradually becoming overgrown and losing its massive rail bridges. Now, it’s going to be the Riverline, a recreational and cultural pathway connecting the waterfront through varied neighborhoods. There will be new bridges, perhaps six of them, and a long trestle over rail lines, woodland and parks.
During an unveiling of draft designs Wednesday, California architect Walter Hood said those bridges will give people a new look at Buffalo.
April 19, 2021 • Jay Cephas on “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America”
Installation view of “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.
IN 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published
Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880. Coming in at just under eight hundred pages, Du Bois’s “essay” served to carefully delineate the role of African Americans in the social, political, and economic restructuring of the United States following the devastation of the Civil War. In many ways, the artists, architects, and designers included in “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in
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ST. PETERSBURG â The four development companies on the shortlist to redevelop the Tropicana Field site each attempted to differentiate themselves in front of the public on Monday.
The session, which took place over Zoom, touched on a host of issues the developers will have to address should they be chosen by Mayor Rick Kriseman to lead construction of the project.
But the developers seemed most concerned with convincing those watching that they, more than any other team, want to hear from them and cared about the success of the project. Those with local ties pushed them, while two groups emphasized that members of their teams have been working on the Trop siteâs future since 2016, when the city undertook a master planning effort for the 86-acre parcel. All did their best to quantify the number of conversations theyâve had with residents, business owners and community leaders.