Article by Estelle Bossy


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The List Art Building, home to Brown’s Visual Arts and Art History departments and the David Winton Bell Gallery, is the second building Johnson designed for the University. Building a new educational facility by nature becomes a political process, especially when it costs $3 million. A succession of department heads and university presidents made design demands, altering Johnson’s interior plan so much that he actually removed his name from the project. The coordinating architect, Samuel Glaser, made the changes to the interior design, and eventually Johnson allowed his name to be re-associated with the building.

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