Imagining MIT
Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century
Published on 25. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-0-262-51611-2 (ISBN)
Description
The story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
220 illus., color throughout; 440 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 185 mm
Width: 277 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-51611-2 (9780262516112)
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03/2007
MIT Press
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Content
1 The American Campus 2 2 William Welles Bosworth Taylorism and Classicism 6 3 Postwar Pragmatism 20 4 Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen Midecentury Modernism 24 5 Kevin Roche Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center 38 6 Steven Holl Simmons Hall 49 7 Frank Gehry Stata Cente r62 8 Charles Correa Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex 86 9 Fumihiko Maki Media Laboratory 102 10Planning a Campus in Real Time 118 Charles W. Vest, Afterword Transforming the MIT Campus--A Personal Journey 124 Notes 130 Bibliography 134 Illustration Credits 136 Index 138