Abstract :
Rarely does the first major work of an iconic architect face his last major work, in the same building type, open to the public, free of charge, and in excellent condition. Louis I Kahnʹs seminal, recently restored addition to the Yale University Art Gallery is just across Chapel Street from his Yale Center for British Art. Jayne Merkel describes the interiors of these mid-20th-century modern masterpieces and the recent Herculean efforts to return them to Kahnʹs intentions while making them suitable for the preservation, study and exhibition of art according to 21st-century standards. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords :
Egarton Swartwout , Center for British Art , Tracy & Swartwout , frozen music , Swartwout , Wiss , President A Whitney Griswold , Elstner Associates , Peter B Wight , Janney , New Haven , Eeero Saarinen , Gregg and Weiss Architects and Larry Regan , Connecticut , Paul Rudolph , Peter Inskip + Peter Jenkins Architects of London , Louis I Kahn , Philip Johnson , Colonel John Trumbull , Yale University Art Gallery , Duncan Hazard , Deborah Berkeיs transformation of the 1954 Jewish Community Center by Weinstein and Abramowitz , Chapel and York Streets , James Stewart Polshek , Gwathmey Siegel , New Haven , Robert AM Stern , Kiernan Timberlake , US , Richard Rogers , Connecticut , Norman Foster , 1951-3. Renovation by the Polshek Partnership , Ric hard Serraיs Stacks , 2006 , media lounge , pogo panels , Joel Sanders
