190 York Street, New Haven
12:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.

Meet at the Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art. A student guide will greet visitors at the entrance of the Loria Center and bring them to the gallery.

Architecture students will offer tours of the Yale Architecture Gallery, one of the largest architecture exhibition spaces in the country. The exhibition on display, The Tuskegee Chapel: Paul Rudolph X Fry & Welch, reveals the often-overlooked story of the rich partnership behind a celebrated, yet understudied, work of midcentury architecture: Paul Rudolph, Louis Fry, Sr., and Col. John Welch’s landmarked Tuskegee Chapel (1960–1969) on the campus of Tuskegee University.

The exhibition features architectural models, full-scale brick replicas of masonry details, rarely seen construction drawings, vintage and contemporary campus photographs from eminent photographer and Tuskegee alumnus Chester Higgins, interviews, a newly commissioned masonry sculpture by Tuskegee alumnus Myles Sampson, and recordings from Tuskegee’s famed Golden Voices Concert Choir.

This exhibition is supported by the Paul Rudolph Foundation and Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown. The masonry sculptures were spearheaded by students and supported with donations from Capasso Enterprises and local brick suppliers Homer C. Godfrey and Beth-Hanover, along with coordination and support from the International Masonry Institute.

The Yale School of Architecture’s exhibition program is supported in part by the Robert A.M. Stern Fund, the Pickard Chilton Dean’s Resource Fund, the Nitkin Family Dean’s Discretionary Fund in Architecture, the Fred Koetter Exhibitions Fund, the Kibel Foundation Fund, and the James Wilder Green Dean’s Resource Fund.