The architecture of MIT: 10 impressive buildings on the tech university's campus
Dezeen is visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Being Material conference this week. Here's a look at some of the best architecture at the campus, from Frank Gehry's library to Eero Saarinen's chapel.
Located in Cambridge, just across the Charles River from Boston, the current MIT campus first opened in 1916 and covers a 168-acre (68-hectare) parcel of land.
Over the years, some of the world's best-known architects have contributed buildings across the site, ranging in styles including neoclassical, modernist, brutalist, and deconstructivist.
MIT's Being Material symposium takes place 21-22 April 2017 in the university's art deco Morris and Sophie Chang building, but we've chosen to highlight 10 other buildings on the campus that we feel have more visual impact:
Maclaurin Buildings by William Welles Bosworth, 1916
Also known as Buildings 3, 4 and 10, this set of neoclassical structures forms a U around the grassy Killian Court facing the river. They were built as part of Bosworth's original plan for the Cambridge campus.
The central Building 10 has a colonnaded facade and is topped with a Great Dome ? modelled on the roof of the Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in New York, which is in turn based on the dome of the ancient Pantheon in Rome.
Baker House by Alvar Aalto, 1949
An undulating brick facade affords views over the Charles River for most of the students residing in this co-ed dormitory block.
Baker House's wave-like form also cr...
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