Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Assistant Dean & Professor of Architecture,
Yale University
I have taught both architectural design and history-theory at the Yale School of Architecture for the past twenty-five years. While such “double-duty” has become somewhat rare in the increasingly specialized academic environment, I am convinced that the range helps me facilitate the interplay between verbal and visual knowledge, between thinking and doing that I believe lies at the heart of architectural education. Overcoming the artificial fault line between history-theory and design teaching is my main pedagogical goal. My scholarly interests cover 20th Century European and American art and architecture, art and aesthetic theory, and history of ideas.
Email :
eeva-liisa.pelkonen@yale.edu
Books
Published work I : Solo-Authored Books
Untimely Moderns: How 20th Century Architecture Reimagined the Past
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023)
(Latest Book Review in Architectural Record)
Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity and Geopolitics
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, 2011
Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996)
Published work II : Co-Authored and Edited Volumes
Pelli-Clarke-Pelli, Special issue of A+U magazine, Japan, 2023
(Editor and Contributor)
Exhibit A: Exhibitions that Transformed Architecture
(London: Phaidon Press, 2018)
Exhibiting Architecture: A Paradox?
Co-edited with Carson Chan and David Tasman
(New Haven: Yale School of Architecture, 2015)
Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment,
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen with contributions by Kathleen John-Alder, Olga Pantelidou, and David Sadighian
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011)
Architecture + Art. New Visions, New Strategies.
Co-edited with Esa Laaksonen
(Helsinki: Alvar Aalto Academy, 2007)
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future.
Co-edited with Donald Albrecht
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006)
Winner of the Philip Johnson Award, 2008