Paprika!, the Yale School of Architecture’s often-weekly, student-published broadsheet printed in quantities of 500 on an off-white newsprint, and distributed on every level of Rudolph Hall, Paul Rudolph's Brutalist Yale Art and Architecture Building. Paprika!’s seeming informality belies its more existential impulse. As architecture students, we are daily sifting through and sorting what matters. Who are our heroes? What is urgent? Why are we here? Paprika! is a material imprint of these questions, a constructed place where ideas unfold, convictions collide, and words work to reconcile what we do with why we do it. As such, Paprika! has become a collective menagerie of essays, manifestos, drawings, bulletins, field notes, ruminations, provocations. It is both a whisper and a shout. It is both timely and timeless. Paprika! is a call for active participation in our educations and our discipline.

Hannah Mayer Baydoun is a coordinating editor for Paprika!. She received her bachelor’s of architecture from the University of Minnesota and is working towards her master’s degree in architecture at the Yale School of Architecture.

Audrey Tseng Fischer is a coordinating editor for Paprika!. They received their BAS from University of Waterloo and are currently working towards their master’s of architecture at the Yale School of Architecture.

Alex Kim is a coordinating editor for Paprika!. He received his bachelor’s of architecture from Syracuse University and is working towards his master’s degree in environmental design at the Yale School of Architecture.

Brian Orser is a coordinating editor for Paprika!. He earned a bachelor’s in philosophy at Pitzer College and is in now in the master’s of architecture program at Yale School of Architecture.

Jessica Zhou is the publisher for Paprika!. She received her bachelor’s in architectural studies from the University of Toronto and is working towards her master’s degree in architecture at the Yale School of Architecture.

Paprika! is an entirely student-driven publication of the Yale School of Architecture, issued ten times per semester. Founded in 2014, Paprika! provides an outlet for student expression and discourse about the present and future state of architecture. Submissions are open to the public, as are our meetings. We receive no fiscal support from the university, and they exercise no editorial control. We provide a platform for emerging voices, in order to foster dialogue not only within the school, but also in the broader world of design and aim to maintain such a platform.