God and Man at Yale, and Fort Worth

By Ed Driscoll 

Question asked and answered:  

We went from beautiful architecture like this to sterile, lifeless structures.

Hell, even in the 80’s everything was full of color and life.

Why does every building these days, including schools, look like prison?

Bring back the beauty! pic.twitter.com/6Dkp7zjg9a

— One Bad Dude (@OneBadDude_) April 3, 2026

In February, James Lileks had some thoughts on the American modernist architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974) and a photo that says everything:

While browsing through an Architectural Record from 1977, there was a gushing review of the incredibly brilliant Yale Center for British Art by the incredibly brilliant Louis Kahn.

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The British Center’s special site and function surely had something to do with these surprising developments. Directly across the street from it stands the earliest of Kahn’s mature buildings: the first in his great sequence of inventive designs. It is Yale’s Art Gallery of 1953.

Ah yes. That one. The building that gave us one of the best examples of life before and after the Second World War.

Hint: Kahn’s building is on the left.

You know how many years separate those two structures?

Nineteen.

The building on the right was completed in 1928. The building on the left was begun in 1947…

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