MIT: A Historical and Architectural Tour
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Cover Reina Title Copyright Contents How to Use This Guide Preface Foreword: Thoughts on the MIT Campus Author’s Acknowledgments PART ONE: Global Portals The Great White City of the Gods of Copley Square PORTAL ONE: Cornerstone William Barton Rogers: Brahmin Acropolis, Immigrant Dreams PORTAL TWO: Foundation The Boston Money Tree PORTAL THREE: Laboratory Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Sullivan PORTAL FOUR: Factory Industrial Revolution, Entrepreneurial Vistas PORTAL FIVE: Keystone MIT’s Cofounder: Emma Savage Rogers’s Passion for Science PORTAL SIX: Pediment Unitarians as the First American Modernists PORTAL SEVEN: Frieze Artistic Engineers, Lefty Pundits PORTAL EIGHT: Court of Honor Charles Eliot’s Charles River Basin PART TWO: Campus Walks Inventing the Future on Boston’s Left Bank WALK ONE: Neoclassical Reflections William Welles Bosworth’s New Tech 1 The View from Harvard Bridge WALK TWO: “Marble Index” The Outward Sign of the Inward Force 2 Second Rogers Building Building 7 3 The “Infinite Corridor” First Leg Building 3 WALK THREE: Centerpiece Cambridge Rites, American Pantheon 4 Memorial Lobby of Maclaurin Buildings Building 10 5 The Great Court of MIT 6 The Divisions of the Great Court Killian, Lowell, and du Pont Courts 7 Barker Engineering Library Building 10 (Fifth Floor) 8 Walker Building Blashfield Murals 9 George Eastman Laboratories WALK FOUR: Indoor Muse Corridor Art, Infinitude Parsed 10 Walker Memorial Blashfield Murals 11 Eastman Lobby and Laboratories Building 6 12 The Sol LeWitt Floor 13 Infinite Corridor Murals 14 The Stella Conference Room WALK FIVE: The New Architecture Unitarians Again: Aalto and Saarinen 15 The Aalto-Saarinen Group 16 Baker House 17 MIT Chapel 18 Kresge Auditorium 19 Kresge Court WALK SIX: Heroic Form I. M. Pei and Jhumpa Lahiri—MIT and Asia 20 McDermott Court I The Pei Ensemble 21 Cecil and Ida Green Center for Earth Sciences (Building 54) 22 The Camille Edouard Dreyfus Chemistry Building (Building 18) 23 The Ralph Landau Building (Building 66) 24 The Pei Gateway 25 Wiesner Building Center for Arts and Media Technology 26 McDermott Court II WALK SEVEN: Outdoor Muse Jewish Muse: The Tasks of Twentieth-Century Art 27 The Hayden Memorial Library and Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Sculpture Courtyard 28 Elmo (MIT) 29 La Grand Voile (The Big Sail) 30 Transparent Horizon 31 Wiesner Building List Visual Arts Center Here-There 32 Figure découpée (Cut-Out Figure) 33 Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 34 Alchemist 35 Collier Memorial WALK EIGHT: Metaphors Gehry, Holl, Correa, Maki 36 Simmons Hall 37 Ray and Maria Stata Center 38 MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex 39 Media Lab Extension 40 Kendall Square Sources Image Credits Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z About the Author
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