On February 6th we will have a Yale Club of Washington D. C. Author talk from, Krista Sykes, the author of a new book about Yale’s famous History of Architecture Professor, Vincent Scully. The book was published in September of 2023. Dr. A. Krista Sykes, a Princeton graduate, completed her graduate study at Harvard’s School of Design so Professor Scully remains a shared guiding voice in American architecture.
Her talk "Vincent Scully and the Power of a Both/And Mindset." draws from his life and career, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years.
A teacher for more than 60 years and a figure of immense importance in the field, he was central to an expansive network of associations, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi to Robert Stern, Harold Bloom, and Norman Mailer.
Scully's extensive body of work, with its range spanning centuries and civilizations, coalesced around the core beliefs that architecture shapes and is shaped by society, and that the best architecture responds, above all else, to the human need for community and connection.
