The final academic building of the 1960s devoted to the humanities and the social sciences was the impressive new home of the Woodrow Wilson School, Robertson Hall, dedicated in May 1966. Since the early 1950s, the Wilson School had been operating out of a modest brick building on Washington Road; when Charles Robertson '26 made his $35 million gift to endow the school in 1961, plans were drawn up for a landmark new building, to be designed by the Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki.

Yamasaki's first move was to reorient the site. He had the existing Woodrow Wilson School building, renamed Corwin Hall, moved back 100 yards, creating a large plaza.