This publication's editor's invitation to me to write about a building that I love was the first of its kind in my sixty-three years as an academic. The older generation of scholars of the arts and other humanistic studies had taught that our position in academia required that our statements be as "objective" and impersonal as those of our colleagues in science. I found in practice that while one's personal response is indeed incompatible with the interpretation of works of art, it was nonetheless essential to find ways to address both.
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