The publication aims to engage its readers in the activities of the school and provide a discourse on architectural issues based in the school. The current issue contains conversations with several visiting lecturers, including Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg of Koning Eizenberg Architecture in Santa Monica, who are teaching a spring studio at Yale. There is a review of the new book by Cecil Balmond, and an interview with the author, who taught at Yale in the fall. A major innovation for alumni relations is a section devoted to Alumni News that reports the projects and enterprises in which architecture alumni are engaged. Upgraded under Stern's tutelage and newly redesigned by Pentagram, it contains a comprehensive listing of all the news in the architecture school, academic and otherwise.
Weekly updates render it a highly reliable and current source.
There were also lectures concerning the history of Yale's buildings, paying tribute to buildings that had been demolished and plans that were not realized. Dean Stern has also made the effort to personally meet and socialize with alumni in a series of visits to various parts of the country. Walter Hunt '63, '67 MArch of Gensler Associates in New York hosted a regional reception for Stern in January to what was, by all accounts, a tremendous turn out. King-lui Wu and Donald Trump were in attendance. In February, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville '63 BFA, '64 MFA and Peter de Bretteville '63, '68 MArch hosted a similar party for the dean, sponsored by the Architecture Alumni Association, at their home in New Haven.