From Jackie Craven,
Your Guide to Architecture.
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Skylights give I.M. Pei's museum at Cornell University a wonderful openness. The lobby skiylight has vertical sheets of glass framed in bronze-toned aluminum.

In his essay, The Design of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, leading project designer John Sullivan III calls the museum lobby an "articulated assembly of enclosures joined by glass, where the focus alternates between the functional spaces and glimpses of the landscape."

It is fitting I.M. Pei's sculptural masterpiece is located on the campus of Cornell University. Cornell is also home to a top-ranking school of architecture, offering a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture, architectural history, urban studies, and computer graphics.