由于预算有限，初期也没有什么藏品，贝聿铭先生对艾佛森美术馆的设计涉及了对画廊的投机方式。一系列四个悬挑的盒子围绕中庭雕塑庭院相互连接。每一个都有不同的大小和天花板高度，它们位于一个5英尺长的裙楼之上，提供博物馆服务和主要画廊关闭后的公共空间。

With a limited budget and initially scant collection, the design of this small museum involved a speculative approach to its galleries. A series of four cantilevered boxes are interconnected around an atrium sculpture court. Each of a different size and ceiling height, these galleries rise above a 5-foot podium housing museum services and public spaces accessible after the main galleries are closed.

就像广场上的一件雕塑，这座博物馆的紧凑型结构和对细节的关注使这座三层楼的建筑成为大型公民和文化建筑群的焦点。就地浇筑的混凝土与当地的花岗岩骨料相结合，补充了雪城众多的砂岩建筑。

Like a piece of sculpture installed in a plaza, the museum’s compact size and attention to detail make the three-story building the focal point within a larger civic and cultural complex. Poured-in-place concrete mixed with a local granite aggregate complements Syracuse’s numerous sandstone buildings.

艾弗森博物馆的藏品主要集中在美国艺术和陶瓷上，它的存在不仅仅是一个艺术品的拱顶。该建筑由贝聿铭于1968年设计，试图通过其创新的形式挑战传统的博物馆类型，同时也以其自身的权利作为现代艺术的对象存在。贝聿铭将艾弗森设计成一个开放的结构，从所有裸露的侧面都可以进入内部。

With a collection focused largely on American art and ceramics, the Everson Museum exists as a structure that is more than just a vault for art. Designed in 1968 by I.M. Pei, the structure sought to simultaneously challenge the traditional museum typology through its innovative form while also existing as an object of modern art in its own right. Pei conceived the Everson as an open structure with access to its interior from all of its exposed sides.

该建筑主要由四个不透明的混凝土体量组成，围绕着一个开放的中庭，游客可以通过中庭进入画廊。每个体量都包含不同大小和高度的画廊，当从外面观看时，为组成博物馆的整体形式组合增添了层次。悬挑的第二层增加了建筑与周围景观的进一步区别。

The building is primarily comprised of four opaque concrete volumes that surround an open atrium that visitors move through to access the galleries. Each volume contains galleries of differing size and height that when viewed from outside gives added hierarchy to the overall assemblage of forms that makeup the museum. A cantilevered second story adds further differentiation to the building from the surrounding landscape.