Brooks, Turner

Mr. Brooks has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Miami, Middlebury College, and the University of Vermont. He is a principal of Turner Brooks Architects, based in New Haven. The firm’s current work includes housing and school buildings at a center for autistic children in New York, expansions to the campus for a private school in New Haven, an outdoor classroom and bunkroom buildings in the Myers Forest for the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the renovation of an historic barn in Hamden, Connecticut, to an arts center, as well as several residential projects. Student housing at Marlboro College in Vermont, the Gilder Boathouse for Yale University, and the Gates Center for the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, are among the firm’s published institutional projects. A monograph of his work, entitled Turner Brooks: Work, was published in 1995. His work also has been featured frequently in books and magazines here and abroad. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation, and he was awarded the Mid-Career Rome Fellowship.