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Renzo Piano Building
Workshop's renovation and
expansion of the Har vard
Art Museums exhibits
remarkable clarit y of vision
STATE
W R I T T E N B Y J E N N T H O R N T O N
OF
THE
ART
T
he dramatic glass canopy
above the neoclassical
courtyard at the Harvard
Art Museums, comprising the
Fogg Museum, the Busch-
Reisinger Museum, and the
Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
sends streams of natural
light down from on high,
illuminating a striking interior
space. One half expects a
Greek chorus to wade out
from the wings, so strong
is the sense of the classical
world, only diluted via a
thoroughly contemporary filter
of glass. Arcaded in the old
way but vast in the new, this
space—the figurative heart of
the facility—announces the
museum as spectacular.
PHOTOGRAPH:
COURTESY
OF
PETER
VANDERWARKER
