My Appointment with Jessica Quagliaroli, Architecture Records Archivist at Yale University, School of Architecture

With Jessica Quagliaroli at the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, Connecticut, 2019.

Yale University, School of Architecture is one of the oldest and pioneering institutions in its field. It was not a surprise for me to witness how architectural design projects could synthesize a distinctive artistic and architectural creativity when I visited their exhibition in February 2019: According to the historical background of the School, architecture was taught at “the Yale University of Fine Arts” in the late nineteenth century and it was established as a department in 1916. Then, approximately 40 years after this historical threshold, the School of Art and Architecture became a fully graduate professional school and Yale University designated the School of Architecture as its separate professional school in 1972. (1). The school’s current dean, Deborah Berke has been serving at this position since 2016. (2).

My appointment with Jessica really enriched my perspective and knowledge about the history and current vision of archive at the Yale School of Architecture. In addition to this, I admire her discipline: She immediately responded to my appointment request by e-mail, shared her valuable time with me at Yale University and came to our appointment with her written answers to my research questions that I sent in advance. Her discipline also shows her respect to her profession, job and a scholar. I am really happy to meet such a professional archivist in architecture and thanks to her for clear and detailed answers to my research questions. My visit to Yale University and meeting with her were a real new chapter of my scholarly studies in architecture.

For the photographs of Yale Center for British Art at Yale University taken by me: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156159324@N03/albums/72157676834303827

For the photographs of Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library taken by me: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156159324@N03/sets/72157707084972684

1.https://www.architecture.yale.edu/about-the-school/history-and-objectives, accessed on 3.1.2019.

2.http://www.dberke.com/people/deborah-berke, accessed on 3.1.2019.