Yale Art and Architecture Building (Rudolph Hall)

Paul Rudolph, 1963. Rudolph was chair of Yale's architecture school when he designed its new home in New Haven, a cluster of concrete towers and deep-set glass that hides a maze of interlocking levels inside. Look closely at the walls in this 2022 corner view: the concrete was cast in ribs and then bush-hammered, leaving a rough corduroy texture that snags the light. Praised at its opening, it was badly damaged by a fire in June 1969 and carved up in the repairs. A restoration by Gwathmey Siegel, completed in 2008, brought it back toward Rudolph's design, and it now carries his name as Paul Rudolph Hall.