Vincent Scully

Vincent J. Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus
of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and one
of the world's leading architectural historians and critics. He
entered Yale at age 16, earned his degree in 1940, his master's
in 1947, and his doctorate in 1949. Scully taught art history
classes at Yale for more than 45 years, to lecture rooms filled
with enraptured students. He officially retired from Yale in 1991
but continued giving courses there and at the University of
Miami. Scully inspired not only many of today's important
American architects but also the field's leading historians,
critics and professors. This brilliant author and commentator
received an emotional farewell during his final lecture at Yale
University, attended by dozens of architects whose lives he had
touched, who collectively presented him with a standing ovation
in tribute to their beloved professor. Scully received the
National Medal of Arts in 2004, as the most influential
architecture teacher in American history, and perhaps the
greatest lecturer Yale has ever seen. In 1993, Professor Scully
traveled to Glacier National Park in Montana to participate in
the Achievement Summit and addressed the Academy's student
delegates.