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September 04, 2008, 12:42 PM ET
Stern Will Design 2 New Residential Colleges, Yale U. Says
Ending months of speculation, Yale University announced this morning that the firm led by its ebullient architecture dean, Robert A.M. Stern, will design two new residential colleges for the campus.
Yale said the colleges would increase its undergraduate population from 5,250 to 6,000. In a move that has been controversial among students, the university will build the new colleges on the far side of the 18-acre Grove Street Cemetery, which forms a wedge separating the current undergraduate campus from university buildings on Science Hill. The colleges are expected to open in 2013.
Mr. Stern was in many ways the obvious choice to design the new colleges, in part because he has built nothing on the campus until now and in part because his firm is known for high-end, retro-styled residential projects — presumably just what students want. And he had the inside track: Along with his two predecessors at Yale’s architecture school, Thomas Beeby and Cesar Pelli, Mr. Stern meets monthly with Yale’s president, Richard C. Levin, to review campus construction projects.
In recent years Yale has extensively renovated its existing colleges, many designed in the early 20th century by James Gamble Rogers, but it has not built a new college since 1961, when it opened Eero Saarinen’s Morse and Eza Stiles Colleges.
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