Vincent Scully was perhaps the most revered professor of art and architecture in the United States. While he had more than 20 books, countless articles, and ...

In 1983, Scully delivered the annual A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art. In 1986, Scully was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His lecture courses were held in the Law School auditorium because it was the largest lecture hall on campus, and it was always a full house. Even undergraduates who never thought they would be …

Today, we share our very last lecture from the archives of Vincent Scully’s Modern Architecture course. In this video, the professor continues his exploration of Louis Kahn, as well as the architect who he …

Vincent Scully lectures on the classical influences on Louis Kahn. He analyzes ways that Kahn’s experience with classical architecture, particularly Roman, but also Egyptian and Hebrew informed …

This lecture, titled “The Natural and Manmade”, is from the archives of architectural historian Vincent Scully’s Modern Architecture course.

Professor Scully, who taught at Yale from 1947 through 2009, was beloved by generations of students; they filled Yale’s largest halls, at the Yale Art Gallery and the Law School, to hear him deliver his …

Vincent Scully Class Lecture on Louis I. Kahn Vincent Scully addressing the work of Louis I. Kahn, in a lecture from his Modern Architecture course at Yale University.

Vincent Scully gives a lecture talking about his artistic practice. He reflects on the importance of architecture and how it is a relationship that mediates between the individual and natural laws.

For more than six decades, from 1947 to 2008, his passionate introductory lectures on the history of art and architecture packed lecture halls to repeated ovations, and inspired generations of...