Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Assistant Dean & Professor of Architecture,
Yale University 

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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. 

 

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Email : eeva-liisa.pelkonen@yale.edu

Lectures & Symposia


Organizing Symposia and Panels Convened 
(2008-present)


Shapes of Time,
Yale School of Architecture, 
April 2024. 
Organizer.

My Bauhaus: Transmedial Encounters,
Yale School of Architecture, November 2019.
Organizer.

Building-Object/Design-Architecture :
Exploring Interconnections  
Birnbeck University, London, June 2019.
Member of the Scientific Committee.

World of Architectural History conference,
Bartlett School of Architecture, London, November 2018.
Member of the Scientific Committee

European Architecture History Network (EAHN) conference, Tallinn 2018.
Member of the Scientific Committee.

Environment, Reconsidered. 50th Anniversary of the Masters of Environmental Design Program at Yale,
Yale School of Architecture, November 2017.
Co-organizer with Jessica Varner.

Transit Point: Mitteleuropa 
Yale School of Architecture. September 2016.
Organizer, in collaboration with Aleksandra Kedziorek 

“Time Travel I” and “Time Travel II” at the 
European Architecture History Network Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2016.
Convener with Mari Lending.

Learning/Doing/Thinking :
Educating Architects in the 21st Century,
Yale School of Architecture, April 2016.
Symposium organizer.

Research on Display :
Architecture Exhibition as Model for Knowledge Production TU Delft, December 2015.
Member of the organizing committee.

Exhibiting Architecture : A Paradox?
Yale School of Architecture, October 2014. 
Symposium organizer with David Tasman and Carson Chang.

Thinking Big: Diagrams, Mediascapes and Megastructures,
Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, February 2011.
Symposium organizer.

Eero Saarinen: Architect of the American Century, 
Yale School of Architecture, 2008. Symposium organizer.