YALE ART GALLERY

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Title	YALE ART GALLERY
View	View of the entire main entrance and area
Notes	cultural, educational
Work Type	art museum
Style/Period	Modern
Creator Name	Kahn, Louis I.
Creator Nationality	American, Russian born
School of Creator	Modern
Date.Creator Birth	1901
Date.Creator Death	1974
Major Design Aspects	use of generic forms structure revealed contextual innovative
Elements & Spatial Types	sculpture garden
Climate Type	cold temperate
Country	United States of America
City	New Haven
State/Province	CT
Alternate Place Names	Yale University
Architectural Material	concrete, brick, glass
Structural System	poured concrete hollow tetrahedral concrete ceiling and floor slab system
Dates	1951-1953
Century	20C
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	7/31/1986
Subject Information	Louis Kahn was an American architect born in Estonia. His major work began in the 1920's, but Kahn is well known for his original designs that utilize brick and concrete. Many consider Kahn another master of these construction materials because of his designs. Incorporating beauty into function, we come to notice the definitive style of Louis Kahn. The best example is the Yale Art Gallery. Its spatial relationships enhance the total beauty of his work. With the integration of beauty, light (as a result of the spatial relations), and function, Kahn expressed a description he commonly gave to his general work: the thoughtful making of spaces. In general, Kahn's trend in architecture exhibit unequal characteristics, most importantly that interior relations are more appealing than exterior ones. Source: library.thinkquest.org/C005594/Architects/kahn.htm / 'The Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut (1951-53) was the first significant commission of Louis Kahn and his first architectural masterpiece. Historians Kenneth Frampton and Vincent Scully consider this work Kahn's response to the desire for a new monumentality in the post-World War II period. Much emphasis has been placed on his structural innovations, expressed in the hollow tetrahedral concrete ceiling and floor slab system, which accommodate the mechanical and electrical systems. Yet little attention has been paid to the formal and poetic aspects of the Yale Art Gallery. The building's blank walls along Chapel Street mark a radical break with the neo-Gothic context of the university. Kahn's critics called this a 'brutalist' gesture. Such a radical architectural statement could probably not be realized today in a traditional context like Yale University because the modernist ideology that supported it no longer exists'. Source: www.architectureweek.com/2002/0710/culture_1-1.html
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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