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PROJECT / RICHARD KELLY EXHIBITION, YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, USA


Pics: Yale photo + design


LIGHT MASTER Yale University recently held an exhibition to honour the legacy of Richard Kelly. Vilma Barr reports


To commemorate the centenary of the birth of lighting design pioneer, Richard Kelly, Yale University mounted an exhibit of his life and work along with a two-day symposium. Titled “The Structure of Light: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture”, the exhibit was on view from August 23, concluding with the October 1-2 symposium.


Acknowledged as one of most influential lighting professionals of the twentieth century’s second half, Kelly, a 1944 gradu- ate of Yale’s Department of Architecture, is credited with creating the lighting for over 300 projects, many in collaboration with the leading architects of the era, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson,


Louis Kahn, and Eero Saarinen. Notable projects are New York’s Seagram Building and its Four Seasons restaurant; Lake Shore Drive Apartments; Kimbell Art Museum; the Yale Center for British Art, and the GM Technical Center.


The exhibition drew on Kelly’s drawings and photos housed in Yale’s Manuscripts and Archives collection, plus several luminous models. It was divided into five main sec- tions: paralleling Kelly’s own career (he died in 1977) to institute creative guidelines and establish a new vocabulary of lighting usage. At the symposium, lighting profes- sionals from around the world discussed lighting trends and techniques in modern and contemporary architecture, comment-


ing on the role of artificial light and day- light as building materials in contemporary architecture. On October 6, the New York City chapter of the American Institute of Architects presented an evening event with summaries of the Yale symposium delivered by Matthew Tanteri and Margaret Maile Petty. Yale University Press has published a 256-page book with the same title as the exhibit, authored by Dietrich Neumann of Brown University, architect Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architec- ture, along with Margaret Maile Petty, and Sandy Isenstadt.


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