The Art & Architecture Addition - at Yale: What Would You Have Done?

In The Chronicle of Higher Education's Buildings & Grounds Blog, Lawrence Biemiller writes that he is certain that the addition to Paul Rudolph’s Art & Architecture Building is "going to start fights." Speaking of the addition's architect, Charles Gwathmey, Biemiller writes, "If your building’s a success, it succeeds by not overpowering Rudolph’s—so he still gets the lion’s share of the credit. But if your building is deemed a failure, you get blamed for messing up Rudolph’s masterpiece. At best, your assignment is thankless. . . . Once the cranes are out of the way and the fences come down early this summer, you can decide for yourself whether you think he chose the right course. The drawings don’t really do it justice, by the way—you’ll want to see it in person. In any case, Mr. Gwathmey deserves a lot credit for taking on so daunting an assignment. Rudolph should be proud.