Publications
The School supports two student-edited architectural publications. Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal, the oldest student-edited architectural journal in the United States, is internationally respected for its contributions to contemporary architectural discourse with original presentations of new projects as well as historical and theoretical essays. Perspecta’s editors solicit articles from distinguished scholars and practitioners from around the world, and then, working with graphic design students from the School of Art, produce the journal. Retrospecta, an annual journal that includes samples of student work and activities at the School during each academic year, is edited by students and published by the School.
The School also publishes Constructs, edited by publications director and architectural critic Nina Rappaport, a twice-yearly news magazine that highlights activities and events at the School, including interviews with visiting faculty members, articles on issues relevant to what is being analyzed and discussed in the design studios, and previews and reviews of the School’s exhibitions and lectures. Constructs also covers important non-Yale events, exhibitions, and publications.
The School maintains an active publications program. In 2010–2011, the following books were published:
Building (in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture (Yale School of Architecture, 2010), edited by Peggy Deamer and Phillip G. Bernstein
Urban Integration: Bishopsgate Goods Yard, Nick Johnson/FAT Architects (Yale School of Architecture, 2010), edited by Nina Rappaport, Andrei Harwell, and Lydia Miller
Learning in Las Vegas, Charles Atwood/David M. Schwarz (Yale School of Architecture, 2011), edited by Nina Rappaport, Brook Denison, and Nicholas Hanna
Composites, Surfaces, and Software: High Performance Architecture (Yale School of Architecture, 2011), edited by Greg Lynn and Mark Foster Gage
The Structure of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture (Yale, 2011), edited by Dietrich Neumann
Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture (Yale, 2011), edited by Karla Britton
Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment (Yale, 2011), edited by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen