Retrospecta 45
Annual Journal of YSoA
2021-2022
co-editor with Annika Babra,
Julie Chan and Tarini Gandhi
Graphic Designers:
Filip Birkner GD MFA ‘23
Jisung Park, GD MFA ’23
Editor’s Note:
Non-linearity, ownership, and plurality; these defining aspects of our education at Yale are best demonstrated while we work in studio: zig-zagging across floors to browse, ponder, and engage in casual conversation with our peers; making Rudolph Hall our own as drawings, images, and sketches litter the floors and populate the windows and walls; and pursuing varying and individual fields of research, the diversity of which tends to color the pages of Retrospecta every year.
To recreate the experience that is most keenly felt in studio, and was most poignantly missing during the pandemic, we opted to split the book in various ways as opposed to composing a single book with an inherent hierarchy. Readers have the autonomy to reshuffle, reorganize, compare, and contrast studios, seminars, and semesters, as well as discover moments of confluence in vignettes of school life.
We hope the self-curated reading of these discrete yet inextricably interconnected parts that constitute Retrospecta 45 can reveal the breadth of perspectives that shape our learning and the spontaneous ethos that distinguishes the Yale School of Architecture.
Annual Journal of YSoA
2021-2022
co-editor with Annika Babra,
Julie Chan and Tarini Gandhi
Graphic Designers:
Filip Birkner GD MFA ‘23
Jisung Park, GD MFA ’23
Editor’s Note:
Non-linearity, ownership, and plurality; these defining aspects of our education at Yale are best demonstrated while we work in studio: zig-zagging across floors to browse, ponder, and engage in casual conversation with our peers; making Rudolph Hall our own as drawings, images, and sketches litter the floors and populate the windows and walls; and pursuing varying and individual fields of research, the diversity of which tends to color the pages of Retrospecta every year.
To recreate the experience that is most keenly felt in studio, and was most poignantly missing during the pandemic, we opted to split the book in various ways as opposed to composing a single book with an inherent hierarchy. Readers have the autonomy to reshuffle, reorganize, compare, and contrast studios, seminars, and semesters, as well as discover moments of confluence in vignettes of school life.
We hope the self-curated reading of these discrete yet inextricably interconnected parts that constitute Retrospecta 45 can reveal the breadth of perspectives that shape our learning and the spontaneous ethos that distinguishes the Yale School of Architecture.
