Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa | YSOA | Yale School of Architecture

Associate Professor

M.Arch., Tampere University of Technology, Finland

M.E.D., Yale University

Ph.D., Columbia University

Ms. Pelkonen’s scholarly work focuses on the language of modern architecture viewed from various national and historical perspectives. Ms. Pelkonen is the author of Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture (MIT Press, 1996) and co-editor of Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale University Press, 2006) and Architecture + Art : New Visions, New Strategies (Aalto Academy, 2007). Her next book, Alvar Aalto: The Geopolitics of Architecture, will be published by Yale University Press in 2008. Ms. Pelkonen’s scholarly work has been supported by the Getty Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Finnish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research. Prior to coming to Yale, Ms. Pelkonen worked in a number of European firms, most notably with Reima and Raili Pietilä, Architects, in Helsinki, Finland, and Volker Giencke, Architects, in Graz, Austria. She is also a design associate with Turner Brooks Architects, where she has collaborated on such projects as the Gilder Boathouse for Yale and the Pelkonen/Brooks residence.