Zeynep Pamuk
Zeynep Pamuk
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Critic discusses writing about buildings
Newsweek Magazine’s architecture critic Cathleen McGuigan had forgotten her tape recorder at her first interview 30 years ago, but the lapse turned out to be a minor problem, as all the answers she received were monosyllabic. She was interviewing Andy Warhol.
WEEKEND | A Turkish Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, I stayed in New Haven and had dinner with a Turkish friend whose family lives in the area.
Ben Allison: Jazz musician, composer, New Havenite
In a phone interview Monday, Ben Allison talked to WEEKEND about the New Haven music scene in the ’80s, salsa dance clubs before the age of big raves, the state of jazz music today, and his favorite restaurants in the Elm City.
UCS little help in search for arts jobs
Searching for jobs in creative fields, such as architecture, art, music, film and drama, poses new challenges for graduates and creates new incentives to amp up career guidance at the graduate arts schools on campus.
‘Builder’ illustrates universal themes
A horizontal house suspended against the backdrop of a vertical stretch of cloudy blue sky invites the audience at the University Theatre to explore the ascendency, liberation and fall of the stage’s most famous architect.
Architecture School invites younger lecturers
Although lecturers at the School of Architecture have typically been established professionals, the up-and-coming Mia Hagg, the 39 year-old co-founder and partner of Paris-based architecture firm Habiter Autrement, was given the stage last night to speak about her firm’s experimental housing and master planning projects around the world.
Gwathmey ARC ’62 remembered at memorial
NEW YORK — At a star-studded memorial service at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last Thursday, a 600-person audience of architects, patrons of the art world and New York City notables gathered to remember the life and work of Charles Gwathmey ARC ’62 — the architect who recently restored Paul Rudolph Hall and designed the Jeffrey H. Loria Center.
Architecture students put new skills to use
After completing their first year at the Yale School of Architecture, and many hours inside studios, fifty students abandoned their traditional work areas to hammer nails, carry heavy beams, saw wood and paint walls.
ART REVIEW | Tough choices for art’s future
Think of the Venus de Milo. Now try to picture her with arms. “Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation,” which was on display at the Yale University Art Gallery this summer, explored the techniques used and dilemmas faced by conservators in the process of preserving and restoring historic works of art in museum collections.
Despite economy, gallery continues renovations
Even as the University scaled back spending, leaving dozens of capital projects on hold, Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery, found a way for his project to go forward.