Renovated home for art opens on Yale campus
In December 2006, Yale University Art Gallery celebrated the reopening of its 1953 Louis Kahn building, widely regarded as the architect’s first masterpiece. The renovation re-creates Kahn’s open spaces and natural light, and enhances visitor access to the Gallery’s extraordinary collection.
The Gallery was Louis Kahn’s first major commission. He had a vision of architecture that would be at the same time monumental and humanistic: not just a functional place for exhibiting works of art, but a communal space for creative exchange. With this recent renovation, the Gallery seeks to fulfill that aspect of Kahn’s design, with expanded educational initiatives and outreach to artists from both the university and the surrounding community.
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