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Author(s) -
Merkel Jayne
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.469
Subject(s) - exhibition , chapel , art history , art , visual arts , face (sociological concept) , work (physics) , art gallery , contemporary art , performance art , engineering , sociology , mechanical engineering , social science
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 Kahn's 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 Kahn's intentions while making them suitable for the preservation, study and exhibition of art according to 21st‐century standards. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.