This is the Yale Art and Architecture building. It is named Rudolph Hall after its designer and chair of the Architecture department. It was completed in 1963 and its design was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Administration Building and Le Corbusier buildings. It consists of over thirty floor levels in its seven stories. It is one of the earliest and best known examples of Brutalist architecture, which is the style of using “raw concrete.”
It is definitely an achievement to create a Building this massive using brutalist architecture. The building must be supporting a vast amount of weight since it is built using mostly concrete. It definitely adds to the presence of the building and makes it seem bigger than it would be were it to be made of a lighter material.