Dr. Turner Brooks

Biography

Turner Brooks is a Professor Adjunct at Yale University, where he teaches architecture and engages in various innovative projects. He is the principal of Turner Brooks Architects, established in 1972 in Starksboro, Vermont. The firm specializes in designing and building residential properties and community facilities, with a notable focus on the New England area. Some of their prominent work includes the construction of the 'Trapezium' house in Brattleboro, Vermont, which integrates performance spaces for circus arts, and a new arts program facility at Burgundy Farm Country Day School in Alexandria, Virginia. Brooks has also completed a Community Building for Cold Spring School in New Haven and designed residential projects such as a house for a geologists' family in the Catskills and a lakeside home in Lake Placid, New York. His work has been recognized in various exhibitions and publications, both domestically and internationally, and includes institutional projects like the Cushing Collection at Yale School of Medicine. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Mid-Career Rome Prize Fellowship in 1984, and the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in Humanities in 2015. Brooks has taught at several notable universities, including Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Tech, and the University of Miami. He holds a B.A. and M.Arch. from Yale University.

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