Yale School of Architecture

The Yale School of Architecture is one of the constituent professional schools of Yale University. It had its beginnings in the long history of interest that Yale has had in art. "Art was first taught at an American college or university in 1869 when the Yale School of the Fine Arts was established. Yale alumnus and educator Andrew Dickson White was offered the post as the first dean of the school, but turned it down to be the first president of Cornell University. Even earlier, in 1832, Yale opened the Trumbull Art Gallery, the first college-affiliated gallery in the country. The Department of Architecture was established in the School of the Fine Arts in 1916. In 1959 the School of Art and Architecture, as it was then known, was made into a fully graduate professional school. In 1972 Yale designated the School of Architecture as its own separate professional school." The students burned down the Department of Architecture building when they considered it to be an abomination. In... full article at wikipedia