A Baffling Blot On Yale

Publication Type	Newspaper Article
Year of Publication	2008
Authors	Langdon, Philip
Source	Hartford Courant
Section	C
Edition	Statewide
Pagination	4
Date Published	September 14
Key Words	Art and Architecture Building; Yale University; New Haven; CT; 1958-1964; Rudolph; Paul Marvin; 1918-1997; Gwathmey Siegel & Associates
Abstract	The author of this article gives a withering critique of the Gwathmey Siegel & Associates addition to the Art and Architecture Building. "Gwathmey's Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art is the first outright aesthetic failure in Yale's multiyear, multibillion-dollar construction program — a program that until now had produced buildings ranging from acceptable to superb."
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State	Connecticut

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On why he maintained a small practice
“Architecture is a personal effort, and the fewer people coming between you and your work the better. This keeps some people from practicing architecture, like the sculptor Nivola [Constantino Nivola, 1911-1988], who says “I cannot stand anybody coming between me and my work.” This is a very real problem, and you can only stretch one man so far. The heart can fall right out of a building during the production of working drawings, and sometimes you would not even recognize your own building unless you followed it through. If an architect cares enough, and practices architecture as an art, then he must initiate design; he must create rather than make judgments.” Heyer, Paul. Architects on Architecture: New Directions in America. New York: Walker, 1966

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