Architecture Student and Faculty Project Fund
$ 100,000 25 opportunities
School-based projects in the community are extensions of the core curriculum that provide vital learning experiences beyond the studio and classroom. The important interface between the curriculum and the community is dramatically represented by the Yale Building Project, required of all first-year graduate architecture students since 1967. This innovative program gives students the opportunity to design and build a community structure, which since 1989 has been a 1,500-square-foot house developed by a non-profit, community-based sponsor to be sold to a first-time home buyer. The building project introduces students to the practical world of construction and the relationship of design to that world, and to social responsibility, while also forging a lasting link between Yale and the local community. The School also runs an Urban Design Workshop that reaches out to Connecticut communities, addressing problems of community design and providing some architectural services. This is a program that employs students as part-time interns during term time and in the summer. Endowing a project fund will provide stability to these and other similarly valuable programs to permanently ensure their place in the curriculum and ultimately in the community.
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