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


Curatorial Work


“Le Carré Bleu: The legendary little magazine from Helsinki, 1958-1961.” 
Museum of Finnish Architecture, 2016. 
Initiator and main curator.


“Alvar Aalto: Second Nature.”
Vitra Design Museum, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 2014.
Academic advisor for an exhibition that went on a major international tour.


“Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment.”
Yale School of Architecture Gallery, 2011
Initiator and curator for an exhibition that went on a national tour.


“Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future.”
Museum of Finnish Architecture and National Building Museum, 2006.
Initiator and director of the curatorial research team for an exhibition that went on a major international tour.