YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BOOKS
Publications Director, Nina Rappaport

BUILDING A NEW EUROPE: PORTRAITS OF MODERN ARCHITECTS features a series of articles from Pencil Points in 1935 and 1936 by architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908-1986) who was a graduate of Yale College in 1928 and Yale School of Architecture in 1932 was a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome. The essays include profiles of the architects and a provocative essay by Kurt W. Forster architectural historian about George Nelson, situating him both in an architectural and cultural context. The book is published by the Yale School of Architecture with Yale University Press and is available through: www.yalepress.yale.edu