Urban Museum of Modern Architecture
New Haven is an open-air museum of post-war American architecture. It is one without wall labels, without any means of communicating information to the people who use and pass by these buildings every day. UMMA: NEW HAVEN rectifies this dilemma by providing historical information to the public about seven of the city's architecturally significant buildings of the post-war era. "People want to know more about modern architecture," says project director Marisa Angell, a PhD student at Yale, "they just don't have the time or the means to educate themselves about what is sometimes an intimidating and esoteric field." She adds, "Architecture exhibitions, books and images on the web are a good supplement, but they cannot replace the physical experience of being inside of a building and inspecting it-sometimes touching it-firsthand." UMMA: NEW HAVEN has two components. Each of the seven buildings is the subject of a brochure that is available to the public free of charge in the lobby of each building. The brochures provide information about the architect and the design and construction process, along with images of the architect's other significant work and a walking map of the seven sites. UMMA: NEW HAVEN Buildings-The Yale University Art Gallery, Louis I. Kahn (1951-1953)
David S. Ingalls Hockey Rink, Eero Saarinen (1956-1958)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (1960-1963)
The Art and Architecture Building, Paul Rudolph (1958-1963)
Crawford Manor, Paul Rudolph (1962-1966)
The Yale Center for British Art, Louis I. Kahn; completed by Pellecchia and Meyers (1969-1977)
The Dixwell Fire Station, Robert Venturi and John Rauch (1969-1974)
