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November 14, 2007, 09:39 PM ET
'Bilbao of Its Day' Gets an Overhaul, and an Addition
The Yale U. Art & Architecture Building, at left, is being renovated and an addition is being built, at right (Gwathmey Siegel image)
New York — At a lunch on Wednesday that was part news conference, part architecture-history lecture, and part class reunion, two of the country’s most prominent architects described the challenges involved in renovating and adding to an icon of the Brutalist era, Yale University’s 1963 Art & Architecture Building. The eight-story concrete-and-glass building is the best-known work of Paul Rudolph, who was chairman of Yale’s architecture department from 1958 to 1965.
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