Architrecture + Literature

The Stones of Yale written & illustrated by Adam Van Doren

Tuesday, May 22
8:00 PM

Film and discussion

From its early beginnings as a small New England school founded by Protestant ministers, to its rise as a vast, global university, Yale is not only one of the nation’s preeminent institutions of higher learning, it is also one of the most beautiful. Founded in 1701, its campus is a virtual gallery of great American architecture—from Connecticut Hall and Harkness Tower by James Gamble Rogers, to the Yale Center for British Art by Louis Kahn and Ingalls Rink by Eero Saarinen.     
   Explore its secret societies such as Scroll and Key, and Skull and Bones, which claim three United States presidents as former members. “Yale’s history is America’s history,” as Van Doren writes in his introduction.     Adam Van Doren received a Master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University and has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. He teaches at Yale University and has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. A RESERVATION IS NOT REQUIRED.