The department of Architecture was established in the School of the Fine Arts in 1916. In 1959 the School of Art and Architecture, as it was then known, was made a fully graduate professional school. In 1972, Yale designated the School of Architecture as its own separate professional school.

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Charles H. Sawyer (1955 - 1956)

Boyd M. Smith (1956 - 1957)

Gibson A. Danes (1958)

Paul Rudolph (1959 - 1964)

Charles Moore (1965 - 1970)

Herman Spiegel (1972 - 1976)

Cesar Pelli (1977 - 1984)

Tom Beeby (1985 - 1992)

Fred Koetter (1993 - 1998)

Robert A.M. Stern (1998 - 2016)

Deborah Berke (2016-Present)