Edward P. Evans Hall

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Edward P. Evans Hall is Yale’s newest landmark, with its soaring glass façade and blue classroom pods. The campus’s striking appearance is a reflection of its ambitious purpose: to enhance the effectiveness of Yale SOM’s programs and extend the reach and influence of the school’s mission. The building was designed around the distinctive, integrated Yale SOM approach to business education, from its first impression of transparency and unity down to such details as the placement of classroom desks to facilitate open discussion. The campus enables faculty, students, and other members of our community to bring the SOM mission to life.

Educating Leaders for Business and Society

In Evans Hall, the courtyard is an active presence, not an empty space. Visible to passersby on Whitney Avenue, it forms a green backdrop to the building’s glass façade. The school’s classrooms and gathering spaces all cluster around the courtyard, and it creates lines of sight from the first floor up to the fourth. The courtyard is a statement emphasizing the transparency and connectedness that are foundational ideas at Yale SOM. It’s also a link to our heritage as a part of Yale University, where courtyards are a central feature of the residential colleges and other buildings.

Courtyard

Art in Evans Hall: Painting, 2013, Adrian Schiess; Wall Drawing #947: Esther’s piece, Sol Lewitt; And Much, Much More!, Amy Pryor ART ’01

PHOTOS BY TONY RINALDO, EXCEPT PRECEDING PAGE BY ROBERT A. LISAK

Evans Hall has 16 classrooms, designed to support the Yale integrated MBA curriculum and to enhance the learning process through their technology, sightlines, acoustics, and seating configurations. You’ll find classrooms with tiered seating, movable desks, and boardroom-style tables; each is arranged to optimize interaction in a particular type of class, whether lecture, case study discussion, seminar, or group work. High-definition video conferencing allows for interaction with guest speakers around the world.

Spaces for Learning

The building contains 22 breakout rooms, built for the collaborative group work that is key to business education.

Charley’s Place, Ross Library, and Ligon-Lamsam Student Commons are spaces for quiet study, community gatherings, and group work. These common spaces are designed to encourage interaction and collaboration, both planned and unplanned.

Yale SOM regularly convenes discussions about the most important issues facing business and society. The 350-seat Zhang Auditorium, Bekenstein Atrium, and Beinecke Terrace Room provide venues for large-scale conferences and talks.

Gathering Places

Evans Hall was designed by Foster + Partners, a global firm chaired by Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Lord Norman Foster ARCH ’62.

Edward P. Evans Hall is named in recognition of a generous gift from the late Edward P. (Ned) Evans YC ’64, a successful executive and investor, a generous philanthropist, and a breeder and racer of thoroughbred horses.

Evans Hall was built to minimize its negative impact on the environment. Features include efficient heating and cooling utilizing chilled beams and radiant floor systems, high-performance windows, daylight-controlled LED lighting, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and electrical vehicle charging stations.

Sustainability

1Bekenstein Wing

Admissions Suite1540–1548

Career Development Suite1530–1538

Ligon-Lamsam Student Commons

Mailroom

Donaldson Dean’s Suite1500–1514

IT Help Desk

McNay Technology Center

Chanos Plaza

Entrance

Bekenstein Atrium

Swensen Recruiters Lounge1520

Interview Suite1580 (c–s)

Courtyard

Evans Hall Café

Ellis-Lorimer Commons —Charley’s Place

Zhang Auditorium

Caulkins Wing

1st FLOOR

2

Beinecke Terrace Room

Ross Library

Nooyi Classroom 2230

Baker Classroom 2430

Finance and Administration2500–2508

Registrar2536–2540

Faculty Affairs2534–2536

Academic Affairs and Student Life2540–2548

Bewkes Classroom 2410

Betts Classroom 2420

Class of 1980 Classroom 2400

Jones Classroom 2220

Allison Foundation Classroom 2210

Blumetti Classroom 2200

Breakout Rooms2260–2268

Breakout Rooms2461–2471

2nd FLOOR

Master of Advanced Management and Global Programs2524–2532

MBA for Executives2520–2522

3

PhD Suite

3rd FLOOR

Faculty Offices3538–3562

Faculty Offices3502–3512

Faculty Offices3514–3536

Faculty Offices3461–3479

4

Breakout Rooms4260–4268

Breakout Rooms4461–4471

Isaacson Classroom 4210

Classroom 4200

Gould Classroom 4220

Attwood Classroom 4230

Kenney Reading Room

Lin Technology Classroom 4400

Classroom 4430

Classroom 4420

Classroom 4410

4th FLOOR

Faculty Offices4455–4457

Faculty Offices4512–4536

Faculty Offices4504–4510

5

Faculty Offices and Ethics and Leadership Development Suite5212–5230

5th FLOOR

Faculty Offices5455–5459

Faculty Offices5461–5479 Faculty

Offices5512–5536

Faculty Offices5501–5510

Visit som.yale.edu/evanshall to learn more about Edward P. Evans Hall, including information on donors and named spaces.

Behaviorial Research Suitel210–l220

Locker Room

Staff and Faculty Parking

Fit for Thought

Broadcast Studio

Information Technology Suitel420–l435

Entrepreneurial Studies Suitel400–l410

LOWER LEVEL

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