View of underground addition and courtyard, photo © Peter Aaron/OTTO
The American Institute of Architects has selected Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges at Yale University to receive a 2013 Institute Honor Award, its highest professional award for architecture, urban design and interior design. This project was one of 11 awarded for architecture. From over 700 total submissions, 28 works located throughout the world were selected by the jury.
Completed in 2011, the renewal of Morse and Ezra Stiles College, one of Eero Saarinen’s last works, marked the final phase in Yale’s campaign to renovate its twelve original residential colleges. Three major aspects to the renewal were the creation of 25,000 square feet of student life and activity space in an underground addition; reconfiguration of the prevailing courtyard hardscapes into a sustainable landscape dominated by water and greenery; and transformation of the student housing mix from stand-alone single rooms into suites. See more >