2016-11-7 耶鲁大学建筑学院的第一任女院长已经走马上任了，关于她的传说数不胜数： Berke did not attend an Ivy League school and does not have a graduate degree in architecture. She has two bachelor's degrees, including the extended undergraduate bachelor of architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, sufficient for licensure. Her graduate degree, from City University, is a master's in urban design. Since its creation in 1916, the college has been led by white men (most Yale graduates), but Berke follows a 100-year legacy of the school's being led by building architects, rather than academicians. In the past 15 years, a generation of women has risen to lead in academic architecture schools, perhaps slightly behind some realms of higher education, including law, but ahead of others, including science. About half of the students in architecture are women, but under 20 percent of American Institute of Architect members are women. Berke was quick to note that of the six Ivy League schools with architecture programs, her appointment brings to four the number that will be led by women. Women are underrepresented in the architecture profession — that is a shame and needs to change," Berke said. "But so are racial, ethnic and socioeconomic minorities not represented in architecture. That is an equal problem and addressing that will be part of my mission at Yale. I’m deeply honored to be the first female dean of the Architecture School, but I tend to look at it more broadly, which is to say that while I’m a female dean at Yale, there’s a female dean at Princeton, a female dean at Columbia and there recently was one at Penn, Berke said. What we’re seeing is a real acknowledgement of women’s progress in architecture by the number of female deans across the country. Deborah Berke was selected as the first recipient of the University of California, Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design inaugural 2012 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize The Berkeley-Rupp Prize will be awarded biannually to a distinguished practitioner or academic who has made a significant contribution to promoting the advancement of women in the field of architecture, and whose work emphasizes a commitment to sustainability and the community. Among the notable aspects of her career that particularly impressed Berkeley-Rupp Prize nomination committee is Berke’s commitment to public service in her contributions to the field of urban design and architecture outside of her practice and teaching, as well as her approach to sustainability . Additionally, the committee was impressed by Berke’s focus on the character of place, its members noting that she holds strongly to the belief that architecture must be of the “here and now”—grounded in its place and time, connected to its physical situation, shaped by its location.
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