Spatial Memories and Preoccupations of an Architect

“One might ask whether [Brooks has the] soul of a sculptor, a draughtsman, a poet, or an architect. … One might also declare that such a question is faulty because it smacks of the professional categories and specializations that divide and weaken the art of architecture. We do know that Turner Brooks honors and practices all those disciplines in varying amounts and ways, as we know that he has chosen to spend the lion’s share of his time designing and making buildings that incorporate the energies of each persuasion. In this respect he is more of a medievalist than a modernist. He remains the mythic Westerner who would stir music, mathematics, magic, and astronomy into a single pot.” —Kent Bloomer

Turner Brooks is a principal of Turner Brooks Architects, based in New Haven. The firm, established in Starksboro, Vermont, in 1972, initially designed (and often built) small houses and community facilities local to the area. In the decades since, the firm has expanded its practice to institutional projects, designing university buildings, arts and community centers, and more in the United States and beyond.

The monograph Turner Brooks: Work was published in 1995. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation; was awarded a Mid-Career Rome Prize Fellowship in 1984; and in 2015 received the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.

He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Miami, Middlebury College, the University of Vermont, and the Yale School of Architecture.

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