November 30, 2007

Yale's Plan to Spend $125-Million to Renovate Famous Building Leaves Many Asking Why

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

The renovation and expansion of one of Yale University's least-loved structures has reunited two prominent architects who studied with the building's designer and watched it go up. But whether they can make it any less reviled remains to be seen.

The structure, the Art & Architecture Building, opened in 1963 and immediately became a concrete-and-glass icon of architecture's Brutalist era. It is the best-known work of Paul Rudolph, who was chairman of Yale's architecture department

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