Turner Brooks

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How Yale Changed My Life

6m 18s | 2020 |

Producer Director: Alberto Lau

Turner says Yale Architecture School made him very happy. He was like a kid again, playing in mudpiles.

My Legacy

2m 32s | 2020 |

Producer Director: Alberto Lau

Turner says his legacy is someone stumbling into a space he designed and feeling that their body is relating to the space in some meaningful way—able to absorb or be led by the choreography of the space.

Spatial Memories and Preoccupations

Click on the PDF symbol on the right to read Turner's essay on what has been on his mind the past fifty (or more) years. The document is a meditation on how one's body finds itself in architectural space, and how one can find full meaning when that architectural space facilitates a fluid collaboration between the intimate and the immense.

The Next Ten Years

1m 36s | 2020 |

Producer Director: Alberto Lau

Turner would like his family to be happy, his kids not hate him, and the same thing for his friends. Rather than have a big apocalyptic goal he would like to continue making models that he could imaginatively inhabit and then actually inhabit.