A New Campus

March 14, 2008

Architects Foster + Partners Provide a Preview of What Might Be The Classroom of the Future

It may not have looked like a classroom at first glance. But as Chris West, an architect for Foster + Partners, explained the design to his audience of SOM students and staff, a new kind of classroom came into view, one that suggested at least one way that the school’s integrated curriculum has the potential to change the very nature of business school education. Read more...

January 29, 2008

Architects Foster + Partners Move Forward With Design Process for New Yale SOM Campus

Several months after Yale picked Foster + Partners to design the new SOM campus, to be constructed on the Whitney Avenue parcel across from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the process is moving along, with the final design concept expected to be approved later this year. To get there, the architects have conducted a number of planning exercises with faculty, students, and staff to better understand the needs of the SOM community. Read more...

September 18, 2007

Foster + Partners Will Design New Yale School of Management Campus

The architectural firm Foster + Partners, led by Chairman Norman Foster, has been selected to design the new Yale School of Management campus. The new campus will be located on a 4.25-acre site on the east side of Whitney Avenue at the Sachem Street intersection. Construction of the 246,000 square foot building, which is more than double the current Yale School of Management footprint of approximately 110,000 square feet, is expected to be completed by the fall of 2011. Read more...