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spotlight: Imagining MIT: designing a campus for the twenty-first century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Bill Mitchell |
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Early explorations of what would eventually become the Ray and Maria Stata Center included crumpled pieces of paper, piles of toy-like wood and plexiglass blocks and something resembling a mass of discarded tin foil.
These were not designs, exactly, but provocative attempts by architect Frank Gehry to get his diverse group of MIT clients and the future inhabitants of the building to start to think about what they really wanted--to react, directly and emotionally, to the propositions on the table before them. The stories behind the conceptualization, design and construction of the Stata Center and four other major buildings--Kevin Roche's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Steven Holl's Simmons Hall, Charles Correa's Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex and Fumihiko Maki's new project for the Media Laboratory--are contained in William J. Mitchell's new book Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century. Read more: Book portrays bold new campus architecture Related links |
 Mitchell stands in front of the Ray and Maria Stata Center: one of several buildings in his new book "Imagining MIT."
 Imagining MIT is published by MIT Press: sample chapter (PDF) |
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