About

Paprika! is a window into emerging discourse from Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Art. Every issue is student-curated and aims to broadcast diverse voices in the fields of art, architecture and design. Every issue of Paprika! is a newspaper broadsheet uniquely designed by students from Yale’s Graphic Design program. No two issues are alike.

Founded in 2014, Paprika! is named after the vibrant orange carpet in Rudolph Hall. The publication aimed to provide a fast-paced, student-centered alternative to Yale’s existing architectural publications of Perspecta, Retrospecta and Constructs. Initially, Paprika! was influenced by the journalistic format of Yale Daily News, and acted as a newspaper of record of the goings-on in Rudolph Hall. Over the course of Volume I, which ran from January of 2015 to May of 2016, the current format of thematic issues was developed.

In 2019, Paprika! was awarded its first grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for Volume V, recognizing its contribution to the exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The subscription service also launched in the fall of that year.

Today, Paprika! is a dynamic platform by students of architecture, art and design at both Yale and beyond. In addition to the broadsheet format, Paprika! has appeared in the form of books, podcasts, websites, and parties.