People Look Up at Good Architecture

The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) was architect Louis I. Kahn‘s last design. Founded by Paul Mellon ‘29 for the study and display of British art, the YCBA was the first U.S. museum to incorporate retail store fronts at street level. Inside the museum, Kahn’s use of daylight and natural materials reached its apotheosis. To celebrate the YCBA’s reopening in spring 2025, this exhibition presents photographs, letters, and sketches from Yale’s repositories. Curated by Kathy Winsor Bohlman, Architecture Records Archivist; Jessica Quagliaroli, Processing Archivist