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Buildings And Grounds Of Yale University, Richard C. Carroll Ed.

Publications on Yale History

This third edition has been expanded to include the grounds as well as the buildings of Yale University. The date of publication follows closely the retirement of President Brewster and therefore includes the new buildings and the renovations of older structures completed during his term of office. The book also lists all Yale buildings now standing and used for university purposes and, where information is available, it records buildings no longer standing. Thus its purpose is mainly historical, to catalogue such basic facts as the date and style of construction, location, name of the architect, and the uses which the …

The Buildings Of Yale University (Bulletin Of Yale University, Series 61, Number 3), Lottie G. Bishop Ed.

Publications on Yale History

This second edition of The Buildings of Yale University is published in order to include the last of the buildings commissioned during President Griswold's administration.

... Today [1965] Yale has about 150 buildings devoted to educational use. They represent over twenty styles of architecture and, at the time of construction, cost a total of more than $130,000,000, given directly or indirectly by thousands of friends. Yale is happy to record its gratitude to all those who have in this way made the University such a special part of their lives. Many of the buildings are also memorial in nature and …

Yale University Library Gazette Special Issue On The Sterling Memorial Library, Volume V, Number 4 (April 1931), Yale University Library

Publications on Yale History

The essence of a library is the bookstack, tier upon tier of self-supporting shelves with long slits of windows lighting narrow aisles. In the evolution of the modern library, it has become almost a matter of course to treat this structure as something to be subordinated in the exterior design. Not infrequently it becomes the rear facade, obscured behind a screen of monumental rooms. In the design of the Sterling Memorial Library, one of the first principles was the placing of the stack in the most accessible and important position on the site and its direct expression as the dominating …