MIT: An Architectural Tour (The Campus Guide) by Douglass Shand-Tucci,Mark Jarzombek,John Horner,L. Rafael

By Douglass Shand-Tucci,Mark Jarzombek,John Horner,L. Rafael Reif

The Massachusetts Institute of know-how (MIT) used to be based in 1861 because the cornerstone of Copley sq. in Boston's again Bay, then the guts of a innovative, proto-globalist Brahmin tradition dedicated to highbrow modernism and academic innovation. MIT founder William Barton Rogers's radical imaginative and prescient to coach through "mind and hand" was once instantly successful.

In 1916 MIT, turning out to be by way of leaps and limits, moved its campus to the within reach Charles River Basin in Cambridge, the place it now stretches alongside the shore overlooking the again Bay. MIT: The Campus Guide offers the heritage of the Institute's founding and its campuses. this day, the campus is studded with constructions designed by means of famous architects equivalent to William Welles Bosworth, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei, Steven Holl, Charles Correa, J. Meejin Yoon, Frank Gehry, and Fumihiko Maki, between others. along the structure is a amazing array of public artwork together with works by way of Picasso, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, and Jaume Plensa.

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