The Yale Art + Architecture Building (Building Block Series)

About this book

The Building Blocks series presents icons of modern architecture as interpreted by the most significant architectural photographers of our time. The first four volumes feature the work of Ezra Stoller whose photography has defined the way postwar architecture has been viewed by architects historians and the public at large. The buildings inaugurating this series--Eero Saarinens TWA Terminal Wallace Harrisons United Nations complex Le Corbusiers Chapel at Ronchamp and the present volume--all have bold sculptural presences ideally suited to Stollers unique vision. Each cloth-bound book in the series contains at least 80 pages of rich duotone images. Taken just after the completion of each project these photographs provide a unique historical record of the buildings in use documenting the people fashions and furnishings of the period. Through Stollers photographs we see these buildings the way the architects wanted us to know them. In the preface to each volume Stoller tells of his personal relationship with the architect of each project and recounts his experience photographing it. A brief introduction by Philip Nobel reveals the fascinating history of the building from its triumphant opening to its mysterious burning in the turbulent 1960s; also included are newly drawn plans.