Renzo Piano’s Renovation of the Harvard Art Museums is, Years On, a Quiet, Neighbourly Triumph

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On the surface, designing a new art museum for Harvard University is a brief so straightforward that it sounds like part of university curriculum itself. The program lends itself to the type of light and airy spaces architects dream of creating; the campus site promises both steady and engaged traffic. But, for all the apparent advantages, the road to realizing Harvard’s Art Museums was a deceptively complex one - one that ultimately took six years to see realized.

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Cite: Katherine Allen. "Renzo Piano’s Renovation of the Harvard Art Museums is, Years On, a Quiet, Neighbourly Triumph" 27 Dec 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/908418/renzo-pianos-renovation-of-the-harvard-art-museums-is-years-on-a-quiet-neighbourly-triumph> ISSN 0719-8884

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