The architecture of influence: Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building at Yale

Focussing on Paul Rudolph���s Art & Architecture Building at Yale, this thesis demonstrates how the building synthesises the architect���s attitude to architectural education, urbanism and materiality. It tracks the evolution of the building from its origins ��� which bear a relationship to Rudolph���s pedagogical ideas ��� to later moments when its occupants and others reacted to it in a series of ways that could never have been foreseen. The A&A became the epicentre of the university���s counter culture movement before it was ravaged by a fire of undetermined origins. Arguably, it represents the last of its kind in American architecture, a turning point at the threshold of postmodernism. Using an archive that was only made available to researchers in 2009, this is the first study to draw extensively on the research files of the late architectural writer and educator, C. Ray Smith. Smith���s 1981 manuscript about the A&A entitled ���The Biography of a Building,��� was never published. The associated research files and transcripts of discussions with some thirty interviewees, including Rudolph, provide a previously unavailable wealth of information. Following Smith���s methodology, meetings were recorded with those involved in the A&A including, where possible, some of Smith���s original interviewees. When placed within other significant contexts ��� the physicality of the building itself as well as the literature which surrounds it ��� these previously untold accounts provide new perspectives and details, which deepen the understanding of the building and its place within architectural discourse. Issues revealed include the importance of the influence of Louis Kahn���s Yale Art Gallery and Yale���s Collegiate Gothic Campus on the building���s design. Following a tumultuous first fifty years, the A&A remains an integral part of the architectural education of Yale students and, furthermore, constitutes an important didactic tool for all students of architecture.

Ballineaspigmore and Bishopstown House

Ballineaspig, anglicised Bishopstown, consists of two townlands which are Ballineaspigmore and Ballineaspigbeg. Taken together, both townlands oc��cupy an area identifiable in modern day terms as lying approximately be��tween the old Glasheen National School on the east side and what was, until recently, the University Farm Curraheen Road on the west. A townland is the smallest administrative land division in Ireland. Historians and other scholars are as yet inconclusive about the origins of these divisions. They are certainly as old as the seventeenth century. The townland with which this booklet is concerned is known as Ballineaspigmore. It extends west from the new Regional Hospital at Wilton and includes modern housing estates such as Uam-Var, Benvoirlich and Firgrove. The simplest translation of the townland name is the large land division of the bishop. To clarify a popular misconception, Bishopstown does not derive its name from the fact that in the early eighteenth century a bishop of Cork built his country residence there. The name is much older and can be found in sources dating back to the sixteenth century.