Inventory of a Building’s Reuse and a Landscape’s Redesign is a film set on Yale University’s West Campus, a former Bayer Pharmaceutical complex. The production employs a range of videographic conventions to systematically analyze both architectural and landscape elements across the redeveloped research campus. Centered around the first building completed in 1965, now the Yale Collections Studies Center, the film records the transformation of the former pharmaceutical manufacturing floor reimagined as accessible design collections display. The film merges the filmmakers’ respective research in the legacy of twentieth-century pharmacological environments and experimental architectural imaging to produce a document that is paradoxically in line with West Campus’ collaborative research philosophies and, at the same time, distanced from them.

Molly M Brandt is an architecture and design researcher based in New York. Brandt received her bachelor’s of fine arts in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her master’s of science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practice in Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. In the fall of 2024, Brandt begins doctoral studies at Princeton University School of Architecture.

Kevin Weil is an artist based in Chicago. Recent exhibitions include MICKEY, Chicago; Each Modern, Taipei; Good Weather, Chicago; Baader-Meinhof, Omaha; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Prairie, Chicago; and Sibling, Toronto. Weil received his bachelor’s of fine arts in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.