<p>My daughter is interested in architecture. Any information about the undergraduate program would be appreciated.</p>
<p>A few people have jumped off the architecture building over the last few (many?) years</p>
<p>I here Yale Architecture classes are solipsistic.</p>
<p>I hear* the above statement.</p>
<p>As a Yale 09er who plans on majoring in architecture, I can say that I have never heard bad things about the program. I have talked with faculty members and current undergraduate architecture majors and sat in on classes, and I can easily say that Yale has the best undergraduate architecture program in the nation. The major is small - usually only 50 or so juniors and seniors major in architecture - and draws on the incredibly vast resources of the graduate School of Architecture.</p>
<p>Look at the faculty - most of them leaders in the field. Frank Gehry is currently teaching a course (or will be teaching another one next semester - he has already taught some). Robert A. M. Stern is the Dean of the School. Alexander Garvin, who was recently a director of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (think WTC site) and is currently a director of the committee pushing to make NYC the site of the 2012 Olympics, teaches a celebrated course on the study of the city. Jacquelin Robertson, Peter Eisenman, and Demetri Porphyrios are teaching at Yale this year.</p>
<p>Look at the alumni - Sir Norman Foster, Sir Richard Rogers, Eero Saarinen, David Childs, etc., etc.</p>
<p>Look at the city - New Haven is an amazing essay in architectural development. Professor Garvin teaches a celebrated course on the study of the city. Cesar Pelli, Herbert S. Newman, and others have their firms in the city. New Haven is also close to New York City, where students frequently go to work on assignments (whether for photography, sketching, etc.).</p>
<p>Finally, look at the campus - Yale is arguably America's most famous campus, and it is certainly one of its prettiest. As an architecture student, all you have to do to see some of America's greatest architecture is look out your window or step out your door.</p>
<p>And as for students supposedly jumping off the roof of the A&A Building, I would like to point out that the roof is a caf</p>
<p>i <3 yale's architecture as well :P</p>