2018年12月22日 星期六

the First-year Building Project, Yale School of Architecture

幾年前就知道此制度。今天特地查一下其源起。



New Haven Community Solar is a student-led project raising money for an array of photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of this year's Jim Vlock First Year Building Project. Check out the project here: https://www.startengine.com/new-haven-community-solar

去查查此"設計與營建實習/社會餐與"制度the First-year Building Project,  Yale School of Architecture

https://www.architecture.yale.edu/academics/building-project
Since 1967, the Yale School of Architecture has offered its first-year students the unique chance to design and build a structure as part of their graduate education. Unique among architecture schools, this program is mandatory for all members of the class. The Building Project results in a single-family house in an economically depressed neighborhood.
The late Charles W. Moore, who headed Yale’s Department of Architecture (later the School of Architecture) from 1965 to 1971, founded the First-year Building Project in collaboration with faculty member Kent Bloomer. Moore saw that getting out of the studio and building something would have several benefits for the students. As a believer in simple tectonics and basic technologies, he hoped students would be inspired by the mechanics of building. In the midst of the student unrest of the 1960s he saw the project as a way for students to commit to positive social action by building for the poor....

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