Modern Prospects: Science Hill

Location

New Haven , CT
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Modern Prospects: Science Hill

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Photo: Bob Gregson

The Modern Prospects: Science Hill tour will explore a collection of lesser-known but equally significant modern structures on the Yale Campus. 

 

Projects by Eero Saarinen & Associates, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, and Marcel Breuer will be complemented by the narratives of how they came to be and how they impacted Yale President A. Whitney Griswold’s vision for the campus ultimately making Yale the Ivy League institution with the largest and most varied collection of Modern buildings in the country.  These projects represent a range of public, semi-public and private structures that reveal Yale’s interaction with the city itself. 

 

Guide: The tour will be led by Sean Khorsandi, executive director of LANDMARK WEST! and Docomomo US New York/Tri-State board member. 

 

$35

Space is limited. 

 

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Dixwell: A Plan to Solve Complex Problems through Design

The Dixwell neighborhood is a fascinating urban renewal case study. This tour will begin at the monumental Dixwell Avenue Congressional Church (designed by John Johansen), which was the focal point in the Dixwell Plan with its modern design, community use, public space, and was seen as a path for racial integration and minority empowerment. The tour will discuss the Dixwell Redevelopment and Renewal Plan and its modern architecture while at the church and will continue as a walking tour along Dixwell Avenue to explore the remaining modernist architecture and town planning of this urban renewal era against the backdrop of the neighborhood in the midst of a second way of urban renewal.

New Haven, CT