Constructs - To form by putting together parts; build;
frame; devise. A complex image or idea
resulting from synthesis by the mind.
Volume 26, Number 2
Cover: The 2024 Jim Vlock First Year Building
Project, photograph by Bohan Chen
(MArch ’25) and Deming Haines (MArch ’25).
Email: constructs@yale.edu
Website: www.architecture.yale.edu/publications/constructs
Constructs is published twice a year
by the Dean’s Office of the Yale School of
Architecture.
Constructs is supported by the Robert A.M.
Stern Family Foundation for the Advancement
of Architectural Culture.
Dean: Deborah Berke, Edward P. Bass Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture
Deputy Dean: Phillip G. Bernstein (BA ’79, MArch ’83)
Associate Dean: Martin Finio
Assistant Deans: Nadine Koobatian, Bimal Mendis (BA ’98, MArch ’02), Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (MED ’94)
Editor: Ali John Pierre Artemel (MArch ’14)
Associate Editor: Cathryn Drake
Graphic Design: Manuel Miranda Practice, with Kaming Lee
Typeface: HG Grotesk by Berton Hasebe
Printing: GHP Media
Photographers: Ali John Pierre Artemel, Ruoxi Cici Jia (MArch ’26), Benjamin Piascik
With special thanks to Mark Bollettieri, Marlene Capron, Alfonse Chiu, Kyle Dugdale, Charles Hawkings, Erik Herrmann, Benjamin Kline, Catherine Leung, Jennifer Nichols, Kate Rozen, Tal Schori, and Jill Siegel
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Yale School of Architecture
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New Haven, CT 06520
ISBN: 979-8-9901392-4-4