June 6, 2008

At Yale, an Unlikely Champion for 'the Building That Won't Go Away'

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Which is most surprising: That Yale University is spending $126-million to renovate and add to a 1963 Modernist building that almost everyone has hated for decades? That the project's champion is a high-society architect whose own career refutes pretty much the whole Modernist design theology? Or that the building, restored to like-new condition, will be striking enough to make a lot of people rethink their hatred?

OK, maybe not a lot of people. But some. The renovation of the Art

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