Luminous Transportations, installation by Jo Yarrington, Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School
Category Archives: Memory
Nick Benson Interview
November 6, 2007 – 6:28 am
A third-generation stone carver and calligrapher, Nick Benson (b. 1964) creates elegant hand-carved tombstones and architectural lettering for public buildings, memorials, and monuments. He owns and operates the John Stevens Shop, a historic stone carving establishment in Newport, Rhode Island. The shop was run by eight generations of Stevenses until 1927 when it was purchased [...]
Cesar Pelli on Skyscrapers, Monuments, and Memory
May 5, 2003 – 10:26 pm
Cesar Pelli was born in 1926 in Tucumán, Argentina. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he worked, most notably, in the offices of Eero Saarinen and at Gruen Associates. In 1977 he became Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University and established Cesar Pelli & Associates in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1995, [...]