August 11, 2008
Harvard’s Otto Hall: The Art Guys and the Designers Aren’t Talking
Want to hear a great story on what happens when people working together—often within the same organization or department and even on the same project—don’t talk to each other?
Writing in BusinessWeek, Robert Campbell tells the mystery of Werner Otto Hall at Harvard. It is a three-story addition at the rear of the university’s famous Fogg Art Museum. Otto houses Harvard’s Busch Reisinger Museum. On the inside, it’s a wonderful display of 20th Century German art. On the outside, it’s a rotting mess.
The cause as best they know it today: The art people didn’t talk to the architects. The cure for the problem? Knock it down and start over.
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