Vincent Scully Lectures

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 a series of public television programs to his name, it was arguably his course lectures at Yale University that made him, in the words of the renowned architect Philip Johnson, “the most influential architecture teacher ever.” 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 students, several of whom have gone on to become prominent architects and historians.

Working with the Checkerboard Film Foundation, whose film “Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects” inspired this project, our mission is to honor and preserve Vincent Scully’s legacy, and also to make available to the public his captured lectures, which have transfixed and inspired so many.