Yale Center for British Art Building Conservation Project New Haven, Conn. Knight Architecture

摘要

The motto for Knight Architecture's recent renovation of the Yale Center for British Art might be: "Keep Kahn and Carry On." As one of Louis Kahn's last significant projects (which happens to be directly across the street from his first major institutional commission, the Yale University Art Gallery), the 1977 building is a landmarked structure from a designer who, despite his outsized influence, died at a relatively early age and completed remarkably few projects in his lifetime. The local firm's double responsibility-to transmit this piece of architectural history untouched while simultaneously rendering it durable enough for continued use-involved some 10 years of study and analysis into the building's development, followed by a phased construction timeline that began as far back as 2008.