Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects

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Though Paul Rudolph’s newly renovated Art and Architecture Building at Yale has emerged as an object of admiration, if not adoration, it generated controversy—­as rough-edged as its bush-hammered concrete shell—from the moment it opened.

A noticeable trend of late seems to be for major art collectors to create their own private museums, much as their Enlightenment forebears did in the 18th century.