Biografia
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen is an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Architecture, where she also directs the Masters of Environmental Design program and the modern architectural archives lab. She received her M.Arch from Tampere Technical University, a Masters of Environmental Design from Yale, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is an author of Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture (MIT Press 1996). Her second book Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, which is co-edited by Donald Albrecht (Yale University Press, 2006), won the Sir Banister Fletcher Award in 2007, and the Philip Johnson Book Award in 2008. Her next book Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity and Geopolitics will be published in March 2009, also by Yale University Press. She is currently working on a book and exhibition on Kevin Roche with her students. Her scholarly work has been supported by the Getty, the Graham Foundation, Finnish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research.