Deborah Berke

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

6PM

301 Crosby Hall

Deborah Berke is the founder of the New York-based architecture and design firm Deborah Berke Partners. Work designed by the firm includes several award-winning projects for 21c Museum Hotels, the Yale School of Art’s Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall, and 48 Bond Street, a residential building in Manhattan. The firm recently completed the Bard College Conservatory of Music and is currently working on several large-scale commercial and university buildings.

Ms. Berke lectures throughout the United States and has won numerous design awards. In 2012 she was awarded the inaugural Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Prize by the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Miami, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. Ms. Berke was a coeditor of Architecture of the Everyday. A monograph of her work was published by Yale University Press in 2008. She serves as a trustee of the Forum for Urban Design. Ms. Berke received a BFA and a BArch from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MUP in Urban Design from the City University of New York. In 2005 the Rhode Island School of Design awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts.

In July 2016 Deborah will become the Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University, where she has been a professor (adjunct) since 1987. 

AIA Continuing Education Credits Available

The annual Louise Bethune Lecture is generously supported by AIA Buffalo/WNY, with additional support for this year's program from the Richardson Center Corporation.