The Harvard Art Museums with the new addition by Renzo Piano

The makeover is long overdue but has the architect gone far enough?

The Harvard Art Museums used to house their stupendous collection in lumpy, mediocre buildings. Sited on the edge of Harvard Yard, they were a dispersed clump of generic structures – stolid, municipal, Georgian. Even British architect James Stirling’s postmodernist Arthur M Sackler Museum across the road struggled to make them memorable.

You might, then, have thought that Harvard would have knocked them all down and started again. But, being a conservative place, that is not what it did. Instead, it hired museum maestro Renzo Piano to do what he could to make them into something better......Continue Reading

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