Our Days Are Like Full Years
October 19, 2020
On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was… READ MORE
Tag: 20th century architecture
Ep. 71 – Lina Bo Bardi
March 14, 2019
A conversation with Zeuler Lima about the extraordinary Brazilian architect, designer, illustrator, writer, editor, and curator Lina Bo Bardi. Lima’s book, Lina Bo Bardi, is newly out in paperback. YaleUniversity… READ MORE
The Modernist Émigrés in America
November 12, 2018
Dominic Bradbury– Migration has become one of the defining subjects of our time. It has helped to shape contemporary politics in both Europe and America, as well as other parts… READ MORE
Q&A with Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki, authors of The New Urban House
November 8, 2018
Yale University Press: What was the selection and screening process like for selecting houses to feature? Jonathan Bell/Ellie Stathaki: The house book is a fairly well established publishing trope, something… READ MORE
Ep. 35 – How House Beautiful’s Powerful Female Editor Transformed Midcentury American Design
August 10, 2017
Interview with Monica Penick about her new book Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home. YaleUniversity · An Interview With Monica Penick
Paris’s Centre Pompidou
December 16, 2016
January 31st, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the revolutionary building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. The building launched the… READ MORE
Hawaiian Modern: Then and Now
January 20, 2015
Dean Sakamoto– Nearly eight years have passed since I handed over the final manuscript for Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff to Yale University Press. Now, as I eagerly… READ MORE
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