Article: Behind the curtain: Sean Keller on Renovating Crown Hall and the Yale University Art Gallery.(ARCHITECTURE)

"TO FIND OUT what architecture really is took me fifty years--half a century," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once admitted. Now another half century has passed since Mies completed his mature postwar buildings, and a wave of renovations is forcing us to reconsider what exactly he and his contemporaries found architecture to be and how to handle their discoveries. A convergence of age-related need, heightened historical appreciation, and persistent ignorance has produced a mixed record to date: ranging from the salutary reconstruction of Gordon Bunshaft's Lever House and the conscientious forensic work on Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, both in New York, to ...

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