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Designing MIT : Bosworth's new tech / Mark Jarzombek.
Fine Arts Library T171.M49 J37 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jarzombek, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Buildings--Design and construction.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Bosworth, Welles, 1869-1966.
- Bosworth, Welles.
- Architecture.
- Building.
- Buildings.
- Physical Description:
- iii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First MIT Press paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- From the Rogers Building to the new Tech. The changing identity of MIT: why the move?
- President Maclaurin and the new site
- The first design of Stephen Child
- Désiré Desparadelle's alternative
- A third design: Ralph Adam Cram's?
- The Eastman millions
- Freeman to the rescue
- "Study no. 7"
- Selection of Cass Gilbert
- William Welles Bosworth becomes a candidate
- Bosworth's early architectural training
- Vanderlip, Vail, and Bosworth
- Bosworth gets the nod
- The gentleman and the architect
- Bosworth's designs for MIT
- Bosworth-Freeman synthesis
- Between the lines of modernity
- The grand opening
- Architectural notes. The campus plan
- The dome
- The portico
- The court
- The statue of Minerva
- The genisis of MIT's Ionic Capitals
- Walker Memorial, the dormitories, and the president's house
- The unbuilt MIT chapel
- 77 Massachusetts Avenue entrance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780998117010
- 0998117013
- OCLC:
- 958963057
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