Another square-shouldered architectural mass will rise on the UW-Madison campus, a quietly imposing presence to protect the vast riches of the Chazen Museum of Art.
Rodolfo Machado’s design for the museum’s expansion, unveiled Thursday, is also meant to present and illuminate. Yet the facade’s stern simplicity hides an elegant array of subtle solutions to the challenge of doubling the size of the original fortress-like design by Chicago architect Harry Weiss.