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Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle major restoration and expansion project supports tradition while welcoming innovation. How do you renew and enlarge a revered historic college building to meet 21st-century needs without overriding its collegiate Gothic style? That was the challenge Yale University faced in repurposing a 90-year-old complex, with a long history of residential and classroom use, in order to consolidate far-flung academic departments into a new Humanities Quadrangle. Led by architect Ann M. Beha, FAIA, of Annum Architects in Boston (formerly Ann Beha Architects), the almost four-year project was as much innovative expansion and adaptive reuse as it was subtle restoration. “The humanities vision is that those studies—philosophy, literature, religion, history, languages, classics—be completely interdisciplinary and collaborative,” explains Beha. “But at Yale they’ve never all been in the same building before; they were distributed all over the campus.” The Humanities Quadrangl

Projects Digging Deep Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle major restoration and expansion project supports tradition while welcoming innovation. By Gordon H. Bock ⋅ SEP 8, 2023 Share this story Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle major restoration and expansion project supports tradition while welcoming innovation. How do you renew and enlarge a revered historic college building to meet 21st-century needs without overriding its collegiate Gothic style? That was the challenge Yale University faced in repurposing a 90-year-old complex, with a long history of residential and classroom use, in order to consolid

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