See the evolution of New Haven’s urban planning from large-scale, sweeping urban renewal to the reactive response of adaptive renovations and historically-sensitive contextual projects. This walking tour will cover several prominent buildings and spaces of the 1970s and ’80s along the New Haven Green, Government Center and the Arts District of Audubon Street.

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

Consider this your Modern Architecture 101 course, with a spotlight on several of New Haven's most iconic modernist buildings.

Join us for this opportunity to engage Yale Library’s vast special collections from the Beinecke Library and Haas Family Arts Library and learn how they are accessible to all.

Perched on top of a steep road overlooking Long Island Sound, are two rare houses designed by Tony Smith best known for his abstract sculptures created in the 1960s and 1970s before his move away from architecture. These angular steel-framed homes sit on pilotis on a cliff at the water’s edge. The first home built for Fred Olsen Sr. is composed of a series of interconnected rectangular volumes and ramps, while the more modest home for Fred Olsen Jr. is a u-shaped plan that dramatically opens to the water.

180 York Street, the Art and Architecture Building, Paul Rudolph Hall, the most hated building on campus. Whatever you call it, it is unquestionably the most mythic of the Modern structures on the Yale University Campus. Come see what all the fuss is about!

The Lower Nine Squares: Designing for the Automobile tour largely follows alongside the ill-fated Oak Street Connector, one of New Haven’s most famous Urban Renewal initiatives.

A school dedicated to visual arts was established at Yale in 1864 and it was the first to be connected to an institute of higher learning in the United States.

Consider this your Modern Architecture 101 course, with a spotlight on several of New Haven's most iconic modernist buildings.

Wooster Square is one of New Haven’s most fascinating neighborhoods, a maritime area that became a fashionable upper-class enclave then a gritty industrial neighborhood for new immigrants. This tour will explore how renewal changed the neighborhood.

On this tour guests will visit the evolution of the Saarinen, KRJDA now Roche Modern offices at Erector Square. Guests will see many of the architectural models for projects completed by Kevin Roche from 1961 to 2019 as well as Eero Saarinen’s desk chair, cartoons drawn by Claude de Forest and a few other archival treasures from the office’s collection. After our visit to the offices, guests will be treated to an in depth tour of the David S. Ingalls Rink (aka the Yale Whale) designed by Eero Saarinen (1953-58) with an addition by KRJDA (2007-09) given by Wes Kavanagh, who was a Principal at KRJDA and the project architect for the Whale addition

New Haven’s most affluent neighborhood, Prospect Hill is home to not only grand early twentieth-century homes, but also a range of important mid-century modern residences.

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.

After World War II there was a burst of residential development fueled by returning veterans that spread into the farmland and rural areas adjacent to cities. Amid this locally we will visit three mid-century houses. One by the legendary Marcel Breuer and two by local architects Carl Blanchard and the partnership of Robert and Jean Coolidge.

Many modernist gems are located just outside of New Haven in North Haven and Hamden. This bus tour will take you on an exploration of modernism through a variety of residential, religious, and community buildings.

Encouraged by new highways and supportive mortgage policies, Connecticut suburbs flourished after World War II, offering a fertile field for Modernist architecture.