Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library-FULLY BOOKED
Cynthia Stewart
Wed Jan 14, 06-07:30pm, off campus,see below
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Put on your walking shoes and take a tour of the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one of America's architectural treasures. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1895, the magnificent Renaissance Revival building marries art with architecture. In addition to the mosaics, wall paintings, and murals, you will see features made of nearly 20 varieties of marble. View the murals by Pierre Puvis de Chauvannes, John Singer Sargent, and also see the work of Augustus St. Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies, and Daniel Chester French among others. Meet inside the Dartmouth Street entrance of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square.
Web: http://www.bpl.org/central/index.html
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 7-337, x3-4408, stewart@mit.edu
Sponsor: Architecture
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Chocolate Tour of Boston
Jessi Ambrose
Sun Jan 11, Sun Jan 25, 02-05:00pm, leave from Lobby 7
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Want to know where to get good chocolate in Boston? Or just want to take a tour around Boston and eat chocolate? Come with us on a tour of Boston that stops at chocolate hot spots where you can buy or eat the best chocolate Boston has to offer. Tour leaves from Lobby 7. Email questions to the contact below.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/chocolatiers/www/
Contact: Jessi Ambrose, chocolatiers-officers@mit.edu
Sponsor: Laboratory for Chocolate Science
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The Image of the City: the Legacy of Kevin Lynch, a Boston Summary
Romin Koebel, PhD MIT alum
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Three late-morning conversations inspired by the Boston legacy of Kevin Lynch. Monday: "The Walkway to the Sea"; Wednesday: "The View from the Road"; and Friday: the "Lost Half-Mile."
Contact: Ezra Glenn, 7-337, x3-2024, eglenn@mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning
The Walkway to the Sea
Romin Koebel, PhD MIT alum
"The Walkway to the Sea" traces the built environment reaching from the top of Beacon Hill to Town Cove. It centers on Faneuil Hall and the influence of Charles Bulfinch.
Mon Jan 5, 10am-12:00pm, 10-401
The View from the Road
Romin Koebel, PhD MIT alum
"The View from the Road" was a Lynch study of the visual experience of a driver coming into Boston from the northeast, focusing particularly on current planning for the surface artery and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
Wed Jan 7, 10am-12:00pm, 10-401
Finding the "Lost Half-Mile"
Romin Koebel, PhD MIT alum
Finding the "Lost Half-Mile" builds on the finding that there was a section of the Charles River that was not part of people's image of the city.
Fri Jan 9, 10am-12:00pm, 10-401
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The Perceptual Form of the City Project
Jolene de Verges, Beverly Turner, Mikki Simon Macdonald
Fri Jan 9, 01-02:00pm, 7-238, Rotch Conference Room
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
“The city is a very large, powerful and complicated object, and there is much emotional satisfaction to be gained from the ability to apprehend it as a whole and to relate one’s self to it easily.” (Kevin Lynch)
In the 1950’s, MIT professors Kevin Lynch and Gyorgy Kepes conducted research for a Rockefeller Foundation grant using the city of Boston as their lab. They studied how individuals perceive the city and navigate through its various environments. The data collected took the form of photographs, interviews, field notes, and annotated maps. These documents are now located in the Rotch Visual Collections and the Institute Archives. In 2008, these collections were digitized. This IAP introduces participants to the city of Boston through the data collected by Kepes and Lynch in the 1950’s, when Boston was on the verge of change.
Contact: Jolene de Verges, 7-238, x8-5593, jdeverge@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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